Yoko-9781398517530

Yoko by Sheff, David

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Author: Sheff, David

Biography: arts & entertainment

Published on 25 March 2025 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 384 pages, 1x16pp mono plates
234 x 153 | 0g

'Illuminating and affectionate'¦ an intimate and perceptive portrait' Publishers WeeklyAn intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from bestselling author of Beautiful Boy John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world''s most famous unknown artist. '˜Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.'' She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity and, often, a villain '“ an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko''s part has been missing '“ hidden in the Beatles'' formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono''s life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centre stage.

Yoko''s life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history.

This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John''s murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko''s nine decades '“ one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived.

Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono''s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.

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