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.
John Lennon may be turning in his grave with the way his two families have been fighting over his properties which left his two sons growing up apart from each other. No thanks to Yoko Ono who reports said refuses to give Cynthia Lennon and her son Julian their fair share in Lennon’s estate after he was murdered in 1980. In fact, Julian has not yet received anything from Ono as of May 2007. Inheritance issues aside, half brothers Julian and Sean (son of Yoko by John) are set to appear together in public during the UN-Millennium Goal Awards in New York on February 26.
The event is expected to be attended by thousands of music fans who will be there for their idols including Richie Sambora, Jon Bon Jovi, Macy Gray and Akon. The brain behind the show is no other than Sacha Stone who founded the Humanitad Foundation. Stone may be living in the UK but she has managed to maintain her relationships with the people who will be involved in the event. The animosity between the two Lennon families is said to be mostly fueled by Ono who seemed bent to wipe out everything that concerns Lennon’s first family. Ono is a far cry from the amiable Cynthia and Julian but blood is thicker than water so the two brothers will most likely feel for each other despite Ono’s schemes. Julian is popularly known for his hit songs “Too Late for Goodbye” and “Valotte”.
According to reports Michael Jackson intends to end the long standing feud with music legend Paul McCartney by leaving him the Beatles back catalogue in his will. Wow man is this a lightening blot without a thunder storm where a twenty feud is being resolved between two giants of the music industry or just a joke.
In 1982 the Beatles and Michael Jackson collaborated on the single The Girl is Mine but thereafter the former pals split up when Michael Jackson beat John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono& McCartney to land the rights to 200 of the Fab Four’s hits.
Perhaps Michael got word first that they were for sale, or was earnest with his money there quicker. GOOD, Michael finally realizes how this has hurt Paul. Hope they can call a truce for the music and their friendship. Everyone needs friends and few have the fame in music that these greats have experienced, so they do have common strengths.
Yoko Ono has scored her forth number one dance hit on the Billboard Chart.
Her new version of her late husband John’s anthem ‘Give Peace A Chance’ has topped the American based dance chart this week.
Yoko has done it before. She was number one in May 2003 with ‘Walking On Thin Ice’, number one in November 2004 with ‘Everyman Has A Man Who Loves Him/ Every Woman Has A Woman Who Loves Her’ in November 2004 and number one with ‘No No No’ earlier this year.
Yoko recorded the new version of ‘Give Peace A Chance’ so that it would be adopted by a new generation of clubbers, music fans and DJs.
“I thank you with all my heart and send you much love”, Yoko said on news of her latest hit.
As it came out last month, Yoko Ono was going to court to prevent the release of a tape featuring her late husband John Lennon smoking weed, writing songs and even discussing putting LSD is President Richard Nixon’s tea, from going public. The footage, which was taped by Yoko’s ex-husband Anthony Cox, was set to be released by World Wide Video after they purchased the video from Cox in 2000. However, it looks like it’s never going to happen as a US District Court Judge in Boston has ruled in favor of Yoko. Why? What is so wrong with having a man smoke weed anyway? At that point in time, weed was pretty much the in thing.
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