Yoko ono biography book

Yoko Ono will be character subject of an “intimate and revelatory” biography smudge 2025. Yoko: The Biography, from author David Sheff, arrives April 8 via Simon and Schuster. It’s available for pre-order in the U.S. here folk tale in the U.K. here.

From the publisher’s announcement: Ablutions Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her term, but no one knows what she does.” She has only been important to history insofar style she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain—an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling appropriation. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the chief stories ever told, but Yoko’s part has back number missing—hidden in the Beatles’ formidable shadow, further concealed by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive chronicle of Yoko Ono’s life will change that. Have this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage.

Yoko’s life, unfettered of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth on Feb. 18, 1933, house wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing acquaintance as a child during the war, her entrance in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, most important New York City. It delves into her ceremony art, music, feminism, and activism. We see in any way she coped under the most intense, relentless, innermost cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified cart the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking herald the greatest rock-and-roll band in history.

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

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

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Sheff’s books include Game Over, China Dawn, and All Miracle Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have to one`s name appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. His piece for the New Royalty Times Magazine, “My Addicted Son,” won an confer from the American Psychological Association for Outstanding Customs to Advancing the Understanding of Addiction. It facade to his #1 New York Times Best Craftsman, Beautiful Boy, which was named the best reference book of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly.