Yoko Ono has announced that she will be writing her autobiography about her life with John Lennon over the next five years. The late Beatle’s wife previously said that she wouldn’t write such a book to protect the family involved including the singer’s ex-wife Cynthia Lennon. Perhaps she’s getting a boat load of money. A Beatles expert said “Unlike Cynthia, Yoko has never really told her side of the Beatles story and the truth about her affair and subsequent marriage to John, so the book will be much awaited. She’s always maintained she never broke up The Beatles, so this will be her chance to put the record straight.”
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been 4 months since Michael Jackson’s death. It’s harder to believe that in that time, he has become the third top grossing dead celebrity this year. The King of Pop beat out the likes of Elvis Presley and John Lennon as Forbes has clocked the late singer as having earned $90 million posthumously. Most of the earnings are due to the countless merchandising deals and the rights to the use of his name and likeness in the film ‘This is It’. Michael also made millions from album sales, radio airplay and music video marathons from the weeks after his death. He was only beat out by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and Broadway buffs Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, whose earnings were combined.
The Beatles are arguably the greatest band to ever grace the world but the secret behind their split has never been completely understood and the fact that the musicians kept mum about the circumstances didn’t exactly help the curiosity. However, a previously unreleased Rolling Stone interview tape with John Lennon has recently surfaced and it reveals the great amounts of tension between him and Paul McCartney. In the interview, John comments on feeling sick over selling out as well as being fed up playing sidekick to Paul, a feeling mutual for Ringo Starr and George Harrison. John also had a problem with how the rest of the band treated his wife, Yoko Ono.
The legendary Yoko Ono has signed a global grassroots petition appealing to the United Nations to declare a Oneness Day, her website says.
Other famous figures to add their names to the petition of some 50,000 signatures include South African Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra and Neale Donald Walsch. The Dalai Lama, envoy Sonam Tenzin and U.N. adviser Janis Roze are also on the petition.
The 1971 song Imagine, a classic by Ono’s ex-husband and Beatle, John Lennon, invites the world to come together as one: “I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will be as one.”
Ono on her website called the appeal “potentially the most important petition ever launched”.
She said, “We are all one, united with infinite and eternal love.”
She also is said to have used Facebook and Twitter to promote the campaign.
The petition will be delivered to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon or next year’s General Assembly president, said petition drive coordinator Anna-Mari Pieterse of Pretoria, South Africa.
The widow of the Beatles legend, John Lennon, was recently handed a Lifetime Achievement Gong at the MOJO Honors List. When asked what her late husband would’ve thought about her receiving this award, Yoko Ono said: “He would have said, ‘I told you so, man.’ He was the only person who was really believing and promoting my work. Without that I might have been pretty discouraged.” Too bad it took everybody so long to appreciate Yoko Ono’s work, even though, I have to ask myself: what work is that, anyway? And furthermore, what is the MOJO Honors List. Honestly, all of these names just rising up spontaneously from the shadow of obscurity… creepy.
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