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Songs for International Womens Day - by Yoko Ono.
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Inspiring Change - Songs for International Women's Day by Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono

A decade of dancefloor domination by Yoko Ono’s alter-club-ego, Ono, comes full circle with the release of brand new remixes of her seminal 1981 club/new wave classic “Walking On Thin Ice”. Clubs ignited instantly upon the first notes of the chugging disco bassline, grinding new wav guitars and Yoko’s signature “ay, ay, ay, ay …”  Fast forward to 2003 and major remixes of the single by Danny Tenaglia, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Rauhofer and Felix Da Housecat kicking off Ono’s streak of 10 #1 club hits including “Talking To The Universe”, “I’m Not Getting Enough”, “No No No” and her last chart topper “Hold Me”. Now serving up the first round of the club classic fresh, hot and new for 2013 are master house chefs Ralphi Rosario, Dave Aude and Emjae all giving it their own significant spin.

ONO - Walking On Thin Ice 2013 (Rosario Dub Mix)

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Preorder from <a href="http://bit.ly/chimeram" title="Preorder from Chimera Music" target="_blank">Chimera Music</a> and get an INSTANT download of the song <a href="http://soundcloud.com/yokoono/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-moonbeams">MOONBEAMS</a>.
Out on September 17th on vinyl, CD & digital download from <a href="https://chimeramusic.com">Chimera Music</a>.

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CHESHIRE CAT CRY

I'm rolling in your dreams
Listening to your screams
The memory is covered by the rain of pain
The boat will float
to end of seas
Taking your memory of pain 

When the Cheshire Cat slowly smiles to us
Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat
The river is drying
Faster than your memory of pain 
"We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive"

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 
Taking your memory of pain with it

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 
And the boat will float
to end of seas

"We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive"

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 

Blood is creating 
A lake of tears of pain
Rain of pain

Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Stop the violence
Stop all wars

Taking your memory of pain with it

"We the expendable people of the United States
Ask for the violence to disappear" 

"We the expendable people of the United States
Hold these dreams to be self-destructive"

Blood Money will give us independence and power

Stop the violence
I’m rolling in your dreams

Stop all wars
Listening to your screams

Stop the violence 
The memory is covered by the rain of pain

Stop all wars 

Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat 
Cheshire Cat

Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop all wars
Who needs violence?
Who needs war?
Who needs it?
Who needs it?
  

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Words and Music by Yoko Ono
© Ono Music (BMI) 2013

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Yoko Ono - Vocals
Lenny Kravitz - Drums, Clavinet
Sean Ono Lennon - Bass, Electric Guitar, Synth

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TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL

Produced by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Yuka C. Honda
Recorded at Sear Sound by Christopher Allen
Mixed by Michael H. Brauer for MHB prods
Mixed at Electric Lady Studios
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Kevin Harper - Assistant Engineer
Mark Bengston - ProTools Engineer and Assistant

Geoff Thorpe - Art Director
Greg Kadel - Cover Photography
Sean Lennon - Studio photos
Yoko Ono - Drawings

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND release the brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on September 17th 2013 

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The album continues an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year and has just curated the hugely succesful Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London. 


"An extraordinary performance by any standard – for a woman in her ninth decade, almost unbelievable" 
Evening Standard, June 2013 


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The truly amazing YOKO ONO releases her brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on Sep 17th. 

The album comes four years after her previous studio album BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY which received rave reviews and was voted one of Mojo Magazine’s Albums Of the Year. 

That same year Ono was awarded both the Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo and The Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for her ground-breaking music and art. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL was recorded in New York and was producedby Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. 

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BANDalso includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus – for this album – tUnEyArDs, Questlove, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. 

The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada. 

The record was planned and made during a hugely productive period which saw Ono’s 2012 show TO THE LIGHT at London’s Serpentine Gallery break attendance records; she then went on to open HALF-A-WIND SHOW, a major retrospective in Frankfurt, finish her instruction book ACORN, travel extensively to oversee various museum shows, score her 10thNo 1 hit HOLD ME on the Billboard Dance Chart, actively campaign against fracking in New York State, win the MTV O Music Award for 'Digital Genius' and – most recently – plan the Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London, which she curated. 

Yoko’s curatorship is already being hailed as the best in the 20 year history of the festival which this year included a coruscating opening night performance by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, and guest appearances by Ono with Cibo Matto, Peaches, Kim Gordon and a closing night collaborative performance with Siouxsie of Ono’s seminal “Walking On Thin Ice”. 

Meltdown 2013 featured a huge cross–section of artists including Savages, Kim Gordon, Siouxsie, Cibo Matto, Bo Ningen, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Deerhoof, Patti Smith, Peaches, Marianne Faithfull, Boy George, Patrick Wolf, Reggie Watts, Viv Albertine, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pussy Riot and Immortal Technique. 

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Praise for Yoko’s performance at Meltdown 2013: 

“It’s a heck of a racket for a gal in her eighties – Yoko is the star but the music offers her the sky to shine in” 
The Independent 

“An international treasure shines. Ono has transcended age – she opened Meltdown 2013 with a blistering, thrilling, cutting-edge musical set which not so much pushed boundaries as ignored them” 
Evening Standard 

“Even at 80 Yoko is out on her Ono” 
Observer 

“Octogenarian’s standing elevated to the angel of the avant garde” 
The Guardian 

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MOONBEAMS, the staggering opening track of the new album, was recently previewed on Soundcloud, ahead of its live premiere as the opening song of Meltdown 2013. 

Ono said today: 
“My new album comes at a very special time for me. I’m so happy that it’s being released after all the incredible shows that made up Meltdown. The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forwards all the time. This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such an exciting time of my life.” 

Yoko Ono has a major art retrospective HALF-A WIND SHOW currently on view at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, later opening at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria on 20th November 2013, and another major art retrospective WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) opening on 15th November at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL is released on September 17th.

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL

CHESHIRE CAT CRY

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Preorder from <a href="http://bit.ly/chimeram" title="Preorder from Chimera Music" target="_blank">Chimera Music</a> and get an INSTANT download of the song <a href="http://soundcloud.com/yokoono/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-moonbeams">MOONBEAMS</a>.
Out on September 17th on vinyl, CD & digital download from <a href="https://chimeramusic.com">Chimera Music</a>.

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TABETAI

Tabetai, oh….
Tabetai, ah….
Tabetai, um, um, um.

Gimme juicy steak
Gimme sweet pancakes
Gimme Gimme

Tabetai, 

Fried Chicken
Chocolate Pudding
Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme

Tabetai,
As human race
Let’s keep our trace
This is our place where we made love

Tabetai, um um um.

Pass me the …
For my…
Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme

Tabetai,

Tabetai um um um.

There’s nothing to eat
Let’s go to another country
Tabetai


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Words and Music by Yoko Ono
© Ono Music (BMI) 2013

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Yoko Ono - Vocals
Merrill Garbus - Drums, Bottle, Percussion, Voice
Nate Brenner - Bass, Bottle, Percussion
Sean Ono Lennon - Electric Guitar, Piano, Synth
Yuka C. Honda - Synth
Kevin Harper - Bottle

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TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL

Produced by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Yuka C. Honda
Recorded at Sear Sound by Christopher Allen
Mixed by Michael H. Brauer for MHB prods
Mixed at Electric Lady Studios
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Kevin Harper - Assistant Engineer
Mark Bengston - ProTools Engineer and Assistant

Geoff Thorpe - Art Director
Greg Kadel - Cover Photography
Sean Lennon - Studio photos
Yoko Ono - Drawings

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND release the brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on September 17th 2013 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

The album continues an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year and has just curated the hugely succesful Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London. 


"An extraordinary performance by any standard – for a woman in her ninth decade, almost unbelievable" 
Evening Standard, June 2013 


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
The truly amazing YOKO ONO releases her brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on Sep 17th. 

The album comes four years after her previous studio album BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY which received rave reviews and was voted one of Mojo Magazine’s Albums Of the Year. 

That same year Ono was awarded both the Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo and The Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for her ground-breaking music and art. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL was recorded in New York and was producedby Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. 

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BANDalso includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus – for this album – tUnEyArDs, Questlove, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. 

The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada. 

The record was planned and made during a hugely productive period which saw Ono’s 2012 show TO THE LIGHT at London’s Serpentine Gallery break attendance records; she then went on to open HALF-A-WIND SHOW, a major retrospective in Frankfurt, finish her instruction book ACORN, travel extensively to oversee various museum shows, score her 10thNo 1 hit HOLD ME on the Billboard Dance Chart, actively campaign against fracking in New York State, win the MTV O Music Award for 'Digital Genius' and – most recently – plan the Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London, which she curated. 

Yoko’s curatorship is already being hailed as the best in the 20 year history of the festival which this year included a coruscating opening night performance by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, and guest appearances by Ono with Cibo Matto, Peaches, Kim Gordon and a closing night collaborative performance with Siouxsie of Ono’s seminal “Walking On Thin Ice”. 

Meltdown 2013 featured a huge cross–section of artists including Savages, Kim Gordon, Siouxsie, Cibo Matto, Bo Ningen, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Deerhoof, Patti Smith, Peaches, Marianne Faithfull, Boy George, Patrick Wolf, Reggie Watts, Viv Albertine, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pussy Riot and Immortal Technique. 

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Praise for Yoko’s performance at Meltdown 2013: 

“It’s a heck of a racket for a gal in her eighties – Yoko is the star but the music offers her the sky to shine in” 
The Independent 

“An international treasure shines. Ono has transcended age – she opened Meltdown 2013 with a blistering, thrilling, cutting-edge musical set which not so much pushed boundaries as ignored them” 
Evening Standard 

“Even at 80 Yoko is out on her Ono” 
Observer 

“Octogenarian’s standing elevated to the angel of the avant garde” 
The Guardian 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

MOONBEAMS, the staggering opening track of the new album, was recently previewed on Soundcloud, ahead of its live premiere as the opening song of Meltdown 2013. 

Ono said today: 
“My new album comes at a very special time for me. I’m so happy that it’s being released after all the incredible shows that made up Meltdown. The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forwards all the time. This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such an exciting time of my life.” 

Yoko Ono has a major art retrospective HALF-A WIND SHOW currently on view at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, later opening at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria on 20th November 2013, and another major art retrospective WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) opening on 15th November at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL is released on September 17th.

TABETAI

Preorder the new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL from Amazon <a href="http://amzn.to/143xjF1" title="Preorder from Amazon USA" target="_blank">USA</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/14mhD2u" title="Preorder from Amazon Canada" target="_blank">Canada</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/15hqimg" title="Preorder from Amazon UK" target="_blank">UK</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/13qD9QZ" title="Preorder from Amazon Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/18Qbr16" title="Preorder from Amazon Italy" target="_blank">Italy</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/16c3GjP" title="Preorder from Amazon France" target="_blank">France</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/13osrHj" title="Preorder from Amazon Japan" target="_blank">Japan</a>
Preorder from <a href="http://bit.ly/chimeram" title="Preorder from Chimera Music" target="_blank">Chimera Music</a> and get an INSTANT download of the song <a href="http://soundcloud.com/yokoono/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-moonbeams">MOONBEAMS</a>.
Out on September 17th on vinyl, CD & digital download from <a href="https://chimeramusic.com">Chimera Music</a>.

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BAD DANCER

When your heart is dancing 
Your mind is bouncing
Bounce bounce bounce bounce

I'm a bad dancer
A busy bouncer 
Never touch the ground 
Never make a sound 

I’m a tough lover 
A sweet pusher 
Writing my life with sand 
Waiting too see the land 

Place your bets 
Watch your step 
I’m a bad dancer 
With no regrets 

Break a leg 
Cut the thread 
I’m a bad dancer 
Full speed ahead 

I’m a bad dancer 
You’re a bad dancer 
He’s a bad dancer 
Bad bad bad 

I’m a fast mover 
A straight shooter 
I might bend 
To see the end 
Never say never 
Cause its never ‘never’

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Words and Music by Yoko Ono
© Ono Music (BMI) 2013

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Yoko Ono - Vocals
Andre Kellman - Mix engineer at Oscilloscope Laboratories
Remixed by Adam Horovitz and Mike D
Additional beats, programming and other curve balls by Adam Horovitz and Mike D

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TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL

Produced by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Yuka C. Honda
Recorded at Sear Sound by Christopher Allen
Mixed by Michael H. Brauer for MHB prods
Mixed at Electric Lady Studios
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Kevin Harper - Assistant Engineer
Mark Bengston - ProTools Engineer and Assistant

Geoff Thorpe - Art Director
Greg Kadel - Cover Photography
Sean Lennon - Studio photos
Yoko Ono - Drawings

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND release the brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on September 17th 2013 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

The album continues an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year and has just curated the hugely succesful Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London. 


"An extraordinary performance by any standard – for a woman in her ninth decade, almost unbelievable" 
Evening Standard, June 2013 


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
The truly amazing YOKO ONO releases her brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on Sep 17th. 

The album comes four years after her previous studio album BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY which received rave reviews and was voted one of Mojo Magazine’s Albums Of the Year. 

That same year Ono was awarded both the Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo and The Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for her ground-breaking music and art. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL was recorded in New York and was producedby Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. 

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BANDalso includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus – for this album – tUnEyArDs, Questlove, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. 

The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada. 

The record was planned and made during a hugely productive period which saw Ono’s 2012 show TO THE LIGHT at London’s Serpentine Gallery break attendance records; she then went on to open HALF-A-WIND SHOW, a major retrospective in Frankfurt, finish her instruction book ACORN, travel extensively to oversee various museum shows, score her 10thNo 1 hit HOLD ME on the Billboard Dance Chart, actively campaign against fracking in New York State, win the MTV O Music Award for 'Digital Genius' and – most recently – plan the Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London, which she curated. 

Yoko’s curatorship is already being hailed as the best in the 20 year history of the festival which this year included a coruscating opening night performance by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, and guest appearances by Ono with Cibo Matto, Peaches, Kim Gordon and a closing night collaborative performance with Siouxsie of Ono’s seminal “Walking On Thin Ice”. 

Meltdown 2013 featured a huge cross–section of artists including Savages, Kim Gordon, Siouxsie, Cibo Matto, Bo Ningen, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Deerhoof, Patti Smith, Peaches, Marianne Faithfull, Boy George, Patrick Wolf, Reggie Watts, Viv Albertine, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pussy Riot and Immortal Technique. 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

Praise for Yoko’s performance at Meltdown 2013: 

“It’s a heck of a racket for a gal in her eighties – Yoko is the star but the music offers her the sky to shine in” 
The Independent 

“An international treasure shines. Ono has transcended age – she opened Meltdown 2013 with a blistering, thrilling, cutting-edge musical set which not so much pushed boundaries as ignored them” 
Evening Standard 

“Even at 80 Yoko is out on her Ono” 
Observer 

“Octogenarian’s standing elevated to the angel of the avant garde” 
The Guardian 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

MOONBEAMS, the staggering opening track of the new album, was recently previewed on Soundcloud, ahead of its live premiere as the opening song of Meltdown 2013. 

Ono said today: 
“My new album comes at a very special time for me. I’m so happy that it’s being released after all the incredible shows that made up Meltdown. The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forwards all the time. This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such an exciting time of my life.” 

Yoko Ono has a major art retrospective HALF-A WIND SHOW currently on view at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, later opening at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria on 20th November 2013, and another major art retrospective WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) opening on 15th November at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL is released on September 17th.

BAD DANCER

Preorder the new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL from Amazon <a href="http://amzn.to/143xjF1" title="Preorder from Amazon USA" target="_blank">USA</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/14mhD2u" title="Preorder from Amazon Canada" target="_blank">Canada</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/15hqimg" title="Preorder from Amazon UK" target="_blank">UK</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/13qD9QZ" title="Preorder from Amazon Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/18Qbr16" title="Preorder from Amazon Italy" target="_blank">Italy</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/16c3GjP" title="Preorder from Amazon France" target="_blank">France</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://amzn.to/13osrHj" title="Preorder from Amazon Japan" target="_blank">Japan</a>
Preorder from <a href="http://bit.ly/chimeram" title="Preorder from Chimera Music" target="_blank">Chimera Music</a> and get an INSTANT download of the song <a href="http://soundcloud.com/yokoono/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-moonbeams">MOONBEAMS</a>.
Out on September 17th on vinyl, CD & digital download from <a href="https://chimeramusic.com">Chimera Music</a>.

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LITTLE BOY BLUE

Little boy blue
Blow your horn
Mommy’s weeping
Daddy’s gone
You make your life
Through your strife
Little boy blue
I love you

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Words and Music by Yoko Ono
© Ono Music (BMI) 2013

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YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND

Yoko Ono - Vocals
Merrill Garbus - Drums, Percussion, Rhodes, Voice
Nate Brenner - Bass, Voice
Sean Ono Lennon - Drum Machine, Shakers, Kalimba, Synth
Yuka C. Honda - Synth, Sampler

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TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL

Produced by Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Yuka C. Honda
Recorded at Sear Sound by Christopher Allen
Mixed by Michael H. Brauer for MHB prods
Mixed at Electric Lady Studios
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Kevin Harper - Assistant Engineer
Mark Bengston - ProTools Engineer and Assistant

Geoff Thorpe - Art Director
Greg Kadel - Cover Photography
Sean Lennon - Studio photos
Yoko Ono - Drawings

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND release the brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on September 17th 2013 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

The album continues an astonishing bout of creativity for Ono, who celebrated her 80th birthday this year and has just curated the hugely succesful Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London. 


"An extraordinary performance by any standard – for a woman in her ninth decade, almost unbelievable" 
Evening Standard, June 2013 


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
The truly amazing YOKO ONO releases her brand new album TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL on Chimera Music on Sep 17th. 

The album comes four years after her previous studio album BETWEEN MY HEAD AND THE SKY which received rave reviews and was voted one of Mojo Magazine’s Albums Of the Year. 

That same year Ono was awarded both the Lifetime Achievement Award by Mojo and The Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for her ground-breaking music and art. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL was recorded in New York and was producedby Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda. 

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BANDalso includes members of Cornelius and Cibo Matto, plus – for this album – tUnEyArDs, Questlove, Nels Cline and Andrew Wyatt. 

The album includes remixes by Mike D & Adrock and Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada. 

The record was planned and made during a hugely productive period which saw Ono’s 2012 show TO THE LIGHT at London’s Serpentine Gallery break attendance records; she then went on to open HALF-A-WIND SHOW, a major retrospective in Frankfurt, finish her instruction book ACORN, travel extensively to oversee various museum shows, score her 10thNo 1 hit HOLD ME on the Billboard Dance Chart, actively campaign against fracking in New York State, win the MTV O Music Award for 'Digital Genius' and – most recently – plan the Meltdown Festival at Southbank, London, which she curated. 

Yoko’s curatorship is already being hailed as the best in the 20 year history of the festival which this year included a coruscating opening night performance by YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND, and guest appearances by Ono with Cibo Matto, Peaches, Kim Gordon and a closing night collaborative performance with Siouxsie of Ono’s seminal “Walking On Thin Ice”. 

Meltdown 2013 featured a huge cross–section of artists including Savages, Kim Gordon, Siouxsie, Cibo Matto, Bo Ningen, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Deerhoof, Patti Smith, Peaches, Marianne Faithfull, Boy George, Patrick Wolf, Reggie Watts, Viv Albertine, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pussy Riot and Immortal Technique. 

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Praise for Yoko’s performance at Meltdown 2013: 

“It’s a heck of a racket for a gal in her eighties – Yoko is the star but the music offers her the sky to shine in” 
The Independent 

“An international treasure shines. Ono has transcended age – she opened Meltdown 2013 with a blistering, thrilling, cutting-edge musical set which not so much pushed boundaries as ignored them” 
Evening Standard 

“Even at 80 Yoko is out on her Ono” 
Observer 

“Octogenarian’s standing elevated to the angel of the avant garde” 
The Guardian 

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MOONBEAMS, the staggering opening track of the new album, was recently previewed on Soundcloud, ahead of its live premiere as the opening song of Meltdown 2013. 

Ono said today: 
“My new album comes at a very special time for me. I’m so happy that it’s being released after all the incredible shows that made up Meltdown. The energy I have right now, and the desire to continue to make as much great work as I can, is really moving me forwards all the time. This album is the culmination of a lot of ideas I’ve been having over the last few years and I feel proud to release it at such an exciting time of my life.” 

Yoko Ono has a major art retrospective HALF-A WIND SHOW currently on view at the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, later opening at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria on 20th November 2013, and another major art retrospective WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT) opening on 15th November at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. 

TAKE ME TO THE LAND OF HELL is released on September 17th.

LITTLE BOY BLUE your daddy’s gone

Rainbow Revelation
by Yoko Ono 

It was after the rain. I was looking out from my window. The buildings on the opposite side of the park were shining with a touch of pink in the evening light. There was a faint rainbow hanging in the park right in front of my eyes. 

I said to myself “Wait a minute, an arch is a segment of a circle and usually it has a support underneath it. Is there a support for a rainbow like the fertile ground that supports the trees? Is there a part of a rainbow we’re not seeing? It could even be that a rainbow is a circle!” 

Then a tiny voice said to me “Yes, a rainbow is a circle, and more. You are just shown an inkling of a rainbow. Just like the best of you think and communicate in shorthand, things are shown to you in little bits. 

And you know why?” I heard myself say 

“Why?” with an exclamation point. 

A perfect silence is what came back. Only the park was shimmering in its full glow. The little voice started to whisper to me again, this time in what i call long hand. I kept writing it down as it came to me until it was about a hundred pages, and the sun started to rise from the window. 

This is its first page. I hope it will be of some use to you.


Bless you for your anger 
for it is a sign of rising energy.
Direct not to your family
waste not on your enemy.
Transform the energy to versatility 
and it will bring prosperity

Bless you for your sorrow 
for it is a sign of vulnerability
Share not with your family
direct not to yourself.
Transform the energy to sympathy 
and it will bring you love.

Bless you for your greed 
for it is a sign of great capacity.
Direct not to your family. 
Direct not to the world. 
Transform the energy to giving. 
Give as much as you wish to take, 
and you will receive satisfaction

Bless you for your jealousy 
for it is a sign of empathy.
Direct not to your family, 
direct not to your friends.
Transform the energy to admiration 
and what you admire will become part of your life.

Bless you for your fear. 
For it is a sign of wisdom. 
Do not hold yourself in fear. 
Tranform the energy to flexibility 
and you will be free from what you fear.

Bless you for your poverty 
for it is a sign of great possibility 
do not hold poverty in your mind. 
Every drop of your generosity 
will come back in 10 fold.
Give as though you were a king, 
and you will receive a king's due.

Bless you for your search of direction 
for it is a sign of aspiration.
Transform the energy to receptivity 
and the direction will come to you

Bless you for the times you see evil.
Evil is energy mishandled 
and it feeds on your support.
Feed not and it will self-destruct. 
Shed light and it will cease to be.

Bless you for the times you feel no love. 
Open your heart to life anyway, 
and in time you will find love in you.

Bless you, bless you, bless you.
Bless you for what you are. 
Remember you are loved. 
Remember I love you.



from the sleevenotes of the album STARPEACE by Yoko Ono
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Rainbow Revelation

from the album 'Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band'

Vocals: Yoko Ono
Guitar: John Lennon
Bass: Klaus Voormann
Drums: Ringo Starr

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is the avant-garde debut album by Yoko Ono, which came after recording three experimental releases with John Lennon and a live album as a member of the Plastic Ono Band. With the exception of one track (recorded with Ornette Coleman), the entire album emerged from one raw and cacophonous freeform session when, improvising throughout, Ono develops and pushes to extremes her characteristic trademark, a strained vocal style derived from Japanese hetai, a vocal technique used in Kabuki performances.

It was recorded simultaneously with her husband's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band at Ascot Sound Studios and Abbey Road Studios using the same musicians and production team.

Initially on Apple Records, through EMI, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was released to considerable critical disdain in 1970, at a time when Ono was being widely blamed for the break-up of The Beatles. Notable exceptions were the estimations of Billboard who called it 'visionary' and critic Lester Bangs who supported it in Rolling Stone. More recently, the album has been credited (like those of The Velvet Underground) with having an influence, particularly on musicians, grossly disproportionate to its sales and visibility. Critic David Browne of Entertainment Weekly, has credited the album with "launching a hundred or more female alternative rockers, like Kate Pierson of the B-52s to current thrashers like L7 and Courtney Love of Hole."

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Why

NOW OR NEVER

Are we gonna keep pushing our children to drugs
Are we gonna keep driving them insane
Are we gonna keep laying empty words and fists
Are we gonna be remembered as the century that failed

People of America, when will we learn
It's now or never. There's no time to lose.

Are we gonna keep sending our youths to war
Are we gonna keep scarring ricefields and infants
Are we gonna keep watching dead bodies over dinner
Are we gonna be known as the century that kills

People of America, when will we stop
It's now or never, there's no time to waste.

Are we gonna keep pretending things are alright
Are we gonna keep our mouth closed just in case
Are we gonna keep putting off until it's too late
Are we gonna be known as the century of fear

People of America when will we see
It's now or never, we've no time to lose

Are we gonna keep digging oil wells and gold
Are we gonna keep shooting the ones that try to change
Are we gonna keep thinking it won't happen to us
Are we gonna be known as the century that kills

People of America, please listen to your soul
We can change the times to century of hope

Cause

A dream you dream alone is only a dream
But a dream we dream together is reality.
 

Reading the lyrics after so many years made me choke up.
NOW OR NEVER!
It works now.
The lines “Are we gonna keep shooting the ones that try to change,
Are we gonna keep thinking it won’t happen to us” were hard to read.
When I wrote those lines, John and I were a proud and happy couple,
believing that it would make a difference to speak out.
And I think it did.
I didn’t know that John was the one who would be shot to death for trying to change…
But they couldn’t kill him.
His spirit is still alive and growing inside all of us.
yoko

Yoko Ono Lennon
Memorial Day, 30 May 2011
 
The cover of NOW OR NEVER is a photograph by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre">1968 My Lai Massacre</a> - the mass murder of several hundred* unarmed citizens of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), mostly civilians, and mainly women and children, by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968. The incident prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced U.S. support at home for the Vietnam War.

* 347 according to the U.S Army (not including My Khe killings), others estimate more than 400 killed and injuries are unknown, Vietnamese government lists 504 killed in total from both My Lai and My Khe.
 
The Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band single NOW OR NEVER was released by Apple on Nov 13, 1972. 
Also available on the album <a href="http://amzn.to/YOapproxiu" target="_blank">Approximately Infinite Universe</a>.
 
See also: <a href="http://imaginepeace.com/archives/3753">My Lai Peace Park</a>.

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Now Or Never

from the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band & Something Different album 'Feeling The Space'.


Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Coffin Car

Join in with ARISING at http://www.imaginepowerarising.com

RISING

Listen to your heart.
Respect your intuition.
Make your manifestation.
There’s no limitation.
Have courage.
Have rage. 
We’re all together.

Follow your heart.
Use your intuition.
Make your manifestation.
There’s no confusion.
Have courage.
Have rage. 
We’re rising.

Have courage.
Have rage. 
We’re rising.
There’s no confusion.
We’re all together.


From the album 'RISING'.
YOKO ONO: Vocals
Sean Ono Lennon: Acoustic &amp; electric guitars, keyboards, bass, backing vocals
Timo Ellis: Bass, acoustic &amp; electric guitars, drums
Sam Koppelman: drums, bass, percussion

Produced by Yoko Ono &amp; Rob Stevens

We're all victims of the immaturity of the human race, and we can all stand up together and do something about it. yoko.


Yoko Ono/IMA - Rising

John Lennon & Yoko Ono: vocals
John Lennon; guitar
Klaus Voormann: bass
Hugh McCracken: guitar
Nicky Hopkins: piano, chimes
The Harlem Community Choir: vocals

Produced by John & Yoko & Phil Spector
Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, 28th October 1971
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. The song did not chart in the U.S. but reached #4 on the British singles chart (where release was delayed until 1972). Ostensibly a protest song about the Vietnam War, it has become a Christmas standard and has appeared on several Christmas albums.

The lyric is based on a campaign in late 1969 by Lennon and Ono, who rented billboards and posters in eleven major cities around the world that read: "WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) Happy Christmas from John and Yoko". In 1971, the US was deeply entrenched in the unpopular Vietnam War. The line "War is over, if you want it, war is over, now!", as sung by the background vocals, was taken directly from the billboards.

Vocals: John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Harlem Community Choir
Guitar and bass guitar: Hugh McCracken, Chris Osborn, Teddy Irwin, Stuart Scharf
Keyboards, chimes and glockenspiel: Nicky Hopkins, Yoko Ono
Drums and sleigh bells: Jim Keltner



John & Yoko, The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

Yoko Ono - piano, vocal.
Recorded at home on audio cassette.
Late 1973/Early 1974.

Yoko Ono - Namyohorengekyo

Find out more about EARTH DAY - 22 April 2014 - at http://www.earthday.org

I LOVE YOU, EARTH

I love you, Earth
You are beautiful,
I love the way you are.
I know I never said it to you,
But I wanna say it now.
I love you, I love you, I love you, Earth.
I love you, I love you, I love you now.

I love you, Earth
You are beautiful,
I love the way you shine.
I love your valleys, I love your mornings,
In fact I love you every day.
I know I never said it to you
Why, I would never know.
Over blue mountains, over green fields,
I wanna scream about it now.

I love you, I love you, I love you, Earth.
I love you, I love you, I love you now.
You are our meeting point of infinity,
You are our turning point in eternity.
I love you, I love you, I love you, Earth.
I love you, I love you, I love you now.
<hr>

Starpeace is Yoko Ono's 1985 concept album, designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. 

Vocals - YOKO ONO
Keyboards - Bernie Worrell, Jeff Bova
Guitar - Eddie Martinez
Violin - Shankar
Bass - Robbie Shakespeare
Percussion - Sly Dunbar, Tony Williams, Aïyb Dieng, Daniel Ponce, Anton Fier
Whistle - Tony Levin
Background Vocals - Bernard Fowler, Yolanda Lee Lewis and Nona Hendryx
Produced by Bill Laswell and Yoko Ono
Recorded and mixed by Rob Stevens

Yoko Ono - I Love You, Earth

Yang yang holds on to a giant phone,
Yang yangs soft voice goes on and on,
I hate you, I hate you, where did it go wrong? 
Yangyang goes talking to himself on the phone.

Yang yang sends his men pebbles and stones,
Yang yang rips his women down to the bones.
I own you, I own you, so give us a song,
Yangyang goes talking to his world on the phone.

Yang yangs born with a phone cord round his neck,
Yang yang never fails to stick to his kick.
I want you, I want you, youre making me sick.
But yangyang, the chords never long enough
To reach your mommys trick.

Yang yang yang yang yang,
Yang yang yang yang yang,
Yang yang, snap out,
Give up, cut out,
Tune up and join us,
Join the revolution,
Join the revolution.

No kick is good enough for lifetime substitution,
No brick will give you a lifetime consolation.
And whether you dig it or not,
We outnumber you in population.
And leave your private institution,
Get down to real communication,
Leave your scene of destruction
And join us in revolution.

Yang yang yang yang yang,
Yang yang yang yang yang,
Yang yang, wake up,
Give up, cut out,
Come out and join us,
Join the revolution,
Join the revolution.


APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE
Approximately Infinite Universe is a double album by Yoko Ono, released in early 1973. It represents a departure from the experimental avant garde rock of her first two albums towards a more conventional pop/rock sound, while also dabbling in feminist rock. It peaked at #193 in the United States. The 1997 CD re-issue on Rykodisc added two acoustic demos of songs from this era that were later released on 1981's Season of Glass.


Yoko Ono - Yang Yang

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Wings - Rock Show [New Version]

IS WINTER HERE TO STAY?

Is winter here to stay? 
You never know.
But is winter here to stay? 
Winter’s here to stay
Winter’s here to stay
Winter’s...


From the Yoko Ono album 'Approximately Infinite Universe'.

Approximately Infinite Universe is a double album by Yoko Ono, released in early 1973. It represents a departure from the experimental avant-garde rock of her first two albums towards a more conventional pop/rock sound, while also dabbling in feminist rock.

The 1997 CD re-issue on Rykodisc added two acoustic demos of songs from this era that were later released on 1981's Season of Glass.

Yoko Ono : vocals 
Stan Bronstein : saxophone, flute, clarinet 
Richard Frank, Jr. : drums, percussion 
Daria Prince : castanet 
Gary Van Scyoc : bass, trumpet 
Adam Ippolito : piano, organ, harmonuim, trumpet 
Wayne Gabriel : guitar 
Joel Nohnn (anagram of John Lennon) : guitar, background vocals

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Is Winter Here To Stay?

Feeling The Space

Woman Power

John Lennon’s final album, 1980’s Double Fantasy, is a stirring mixture of songs about love and family as well as plenty of odes to unabashed rock ‘n’ roll. This new version, Double Fantasy Stripped Down, features the original album as well as Lennon’s original mix, which pares down the instrumentation and gives more focus to Lennon’s amazing vocals. 

JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO - DOUBLE FANTASY (STRIPPED DOWN)

1. (Just Like) Starting Over
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss
3. Cleanup Time
4. Give Me Something
5. I'm Losing You 
6. I'm Moving On
7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
8. Watching The Wheels
9. Yes, I'm Your Angel
10. Woman
11. Beautiful Boys
12. Dear Yoko
13. Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him
14. Hard Times Are Over 
_____________________________________________________________________

Since 1975, the year his son, Sean was born, John Lennon's life had seen some unaccustomed tranquility, later called the Dakota Days. 

While John had devoted himself to fatherhood and domesticity, he asked Yoko to supervise their business affairs. The exchange of roles which they exercised, gave food for thought to all couples then and now. 

But at the time, the wider world could not comprehend what John was doing. John's withdrawal as a recording artist was unprecedented. 

Suddenly, in 1980, a welcome surprise was heard. John went into the studio with Yoko to make the next album. 

From its inception, then, Double Fantasy was a John and Yoko collaboration, just as their early "avant garde" albums had been. And in its "Heart Play" of alternating viewpoints, it formalised a pattern they'd instinctively adopted on Some Time In New York City. 

Yoko: "We thought Double Fantasy was a fresh and unique idea. John was concerned that another singer/songwriter couple might do an album of this format before us, and thought it was important to do this album right away. But nobody did it, and nobody has done it since then. It was probably not a very easy record to make for any singer/songwriter couple. We were just very lucky that we didn't even have a fight between us while making it. It was a miracle." 

"After the five-year hiatus, for John to come out and do his album, the whole of the music industry was totally, totally excited and they all wanted John's music and was not very happy, that I was there. So, while we were recording, John really had to protect me, in so many ways." 

Double Fantasy was a brave album on John's part, and not only for his loyalty to Yoko. Here was a man whose image was frozen in rock 'n' roll, with all its connotations of youth, rebellion and extremity. Yet his goal this time was to address middle age, and the generation who had grown up with him, and to consider questions - of parenthood, of marriage, of mature relations between the sexes - that pop music scarcely touches. 

The silvery tinkle of bells that introduces '(Just Like) Starting Over' was a deliberate contrast to the ominous tolling that opened John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band ten years earlier. Double Fantasy was to embrace the future with hope, and treat the past with affection. Two heroes of his youth, Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, are playfully mimicked in John's first track, a life-affirming celebration of the new decade just dawning. Yoko responds with 'Kiss Kiss Kiss', flagrantly sensuous; in the Lennons' mind, "double fantasy" had definite erotic aspects. 

Yet this was not a one-dimensional depiction of bliss. 'Cleanup Time' tells of John's resolve to face the future in better shape, but Yoko's 'Give Me Something' is a stinging challenge to show emotional engagement. 'I'm Losing You' and 'I'm Moving On' plunge still deeper into discord, the former like an echo of John's "Lost Weekend" record Walls And Bridges, the latter a second instance of Yoko as the impatient realist. 

"It's not a happy go lucky album," she affirms. "John's song 'I'm Losing You', even now when I hear that, I get choked up. And 'I'm Moving On' Well ... that was how we were." 

Tensions melt with wonderful suddenness in 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)', John's tender song for Sean. Within the narrative flow of this album, it's as if the arrival of a child has wrought a transformational magic. 'Watching The Wheels' is the contented father's defiance of a world so silly it thinks he could possibly have any role more important. And in 'Yes, I'm Your Angel', the parents enjoy a little recuperative time together. We reach the album's pivotal point, perhaps, in John's outstanding 'Woman' - a song that is often compared with his 'Girl' of 15 years earlier, as a measure of the man's personal development. In Yoko's 'Beautiful Boys' we hear a stirring message of encouragement for any man on such a path. 

The remaining songs serve to consolidate this hard-won harmony. John's 'Dear Yoko', propelled by exuberant Buddy Holly gurgles, shines with the same pure joy as Imagine's 'Oh Yoko!'. Her own 'Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him' is similarly sweet. And her wistful 'Hard Times Are Over' draws the story to Its graceful conclusion - though its message is subtly qualified, we note, by the cautious addition of "for awhile" ... 

There would, of course, be no further recordings issued in John Lennon's lifetime. It's true there were still some unheard songs, most notably on Double Fantasy's intended sequel Milk And Honey - but they were for another day. On December 9th, 1980, the world awoke to ponder what it had lost. 

Thirty years has passed. And in 2010, the year of Lennon's 70th birthday, Yoko was happy to know that EMI was planning a big tribute to John. She wanted to do something very powerful to enhance the project. 'Stripdown,' she heard, was what musicians were doing now. 

"That was right up John's alley. So I asked Jack Douglas, the co-producer of the original Double Fantasy, to join me to make this edition. Both Jack and I were the closest people to John when we were making the original Double Fantasy. I'm sure John's sudden passing was painful for Jack, too. 

So we hadn't been in touch. But now I'm glad I reached to him this time. We worked well .. and fast, since we were both there for the original recording." 

Stripped Down was re-mixed by Yoko and Jack Douglas in Avatar Studios in New York. 

"I'm so glad I decided to do this." says Yoko. "I never liked the way songs were mixed in the 70s and the 80s, raising the tracks and burying the voice. In this Stripdown, John's voice comes across so powerfully. His voice, his diction, are all very clear in these remixes. His voice is going back to the days of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. His soul was talking to you directly then. Now it is in Stripped Down. In that sense, this is the first Double Fantasy you'll be hearing ... with John's natural voice, and his lyrics clear as a bell. He is brilliant. No other rocker was ever able to come near him in his voice, his passion, and in his articulation. He is a modern day Shakespeare in his diction. And Stripped Down shows this." 

John Lennon's singing voice really deserves to be heard in a pure state. It's Yoko's belief that John's thoughts and feelings - so timeless in their relevance - should sound as immediate as he wished his message to be. Experienced this way, the songs have much the same immediacy as his powerful solo debut John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band. Freed from the legacy of sometimes dated technology, these are now recordings for today, and of course, for the future. 
_____________________________________________________________________

Double Fantasy A Heart Play 
by John Lennon & Yoko Ono 

DISC 1: STRIPPED DOWN 
Produced and Remixed by Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas. 
Remix Engineer: Jay Messina. 
Assistant Engineer: Justin Gerrish 

Mixed at Avatar Studios, New York City. 
Re-Mix preparation at West End Sound NYC. AID transfers done at Sony Battery NYC.
Transfer Engineer: Tim Sturges. 
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound NYC. 
A&R: Rob Stevens 
_____________________________________________________________________

DISC 2: ORIGINAL ALBUM 
Produced by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas. 
Engineer: Lee DeCarlo. 
Assistant Engineers: Jon Smith, James Ball, Julie Last. 

Guitarists: John Lennon, Earl Slick (Courtesy of Columbia Records), Hugh McCracken. 
Bass Guitar: Tony Levin. 
Keyboards: John Lennon, George Small. 
Drums: Andy Newmark. 
Percussion: Arthur Jenkins, Jr. 
Oberheim: Ed Walsh. 
Voice: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. 
Background Singers: Cas Mijac aka: Michelle Simpson, Cassandra Wooten, Cheryl Mason Jacks, Eric Troyer (Courtesy of Chrysalis Records), Benny Cummings Singers - Kings Temple Choir (Courtesy of New Birth Records). 
Drum: Robert Greenidge on 'Beautiful Boy'. 
Hammer Dulcimer: Matthew Cunningham on 'Watching The Wheels'. 
English Concertina: Randy Stein. 
Horn Players: Howard Johnson, Grant Hungetiord, John Parran, Seldon Powell, George 'Young' Opalisky, Roger Rosenberg, David Tofani, Ronald Tooley. 
Musical Associate: Tony Davilio - also Horn Arrangement on 'Yes, I'm Your Angel'. 
Production Assistants: Frederic Seaman, Toshihiro Hamaya 

Recorded and Remixed at Hit Factory, New York. 
Single Remix at Record Plant, New York. 
Mastering at Sterling Sound, New York. Mastered by George Marino 

Art Direction: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. 
Artwork: Christopher Wharf/Art Hotel 

All tracks © Lenono Music except 2, 4, 6,9,11, 13,14©Ono Music 
_____________________________________________________________________

Remaster Project Production Producer: Yoko Ono. 

Remastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, 2010. 
Art direction by Yoko Ono. 
New 2010 front & back cover drawings by Sean Lennon (based on photography by Kishin Shinoyama). 
Design by Peacock. 
Artwork Co-ordinator: Karla Merrifield. 
Photo research: Xilonen Oreshnick 

'Peace Brother' drawing by John Lennon 

Sleeve notes by Paul Du Noyer. 
Additional Photography: Bob Gruen, Nishi F. Saimaru, Kishin Shinoyama, David Spindel, Allan Tannenbaum 

Gatefold images: John and Yoko leaving the Dakota, first day of recording - August 4, 1980: Paul Goresh 

John and Yoko on 44th Street, last day of recording - December 6, 1980: © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com 
_____________________________________________________________________

Special thanks to: 

Starting with Jack Douglas, our original Co-producer, I'd like to thank him and the musicians who have been involved in the making of the original Double Fantasy. You were all brilliant and wonderful. I still love each one of you. 

I would like to give a special thanks to David Geffen for giving John and I the freedom to make the album in the way we wanted to. This album would never have been made without your wisdom of allowing us to be us. 

And thank you Sean, after many days of hesitation, you finally did the drawings for the front and back covers of this very special Stripped Down CD for your dad and your mom. All sorts of memory of that time came back to you, you said .. I know how hard it must have been. This is a thank you from me and your dad. 

Finally, John. Thank you for having done the album with me, at the time of such importance for your career. 

I was a very lucky woman. We made a bit of a mess out of our lives, didn't we? I know we never thought that. But we did. Though for you and me, it was grand all the way. 

I love you! Yoko

Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm Your Angel (2010 Stripped Down Remix)

Yoko Ono: Voice
John Lennon: Guitar
Ringo Starr: Drums
Klaus Voorman: Bass
Recorded: October 1970 at Abbey Road
from the album "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band"

Yoko Ono - Paper Shoes

Open your box,
Open your box,
Open your trousers,
Open your thighs,
Open your legs,
Open, open, open, open, oooh.

Open, open, open, open,
Open your legs,
Open your flies,
Open your ears,
Open your nose,
Open your mouth,
Open, open, open, open, oooh.
Open.

Open your cold feet,
Open, open,
Open, open, open, let’s open, let’s open the cities.

Open the cities,
Open, open, open the world,
Open, let’s open the world.

Open, open, oooh -
Open, open, ooh!

Yoko Ono: vocal. 
John Lennon: electric guitar. 
Klaus Voorman: bass. 
Ringo Starr: drums.

Originally released as the B-Side of the John Lennon Plastic Ono Band single "Power To The People".
Now available as a bonus track on the album "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band"

Yoko Ono - Open Your Box

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'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)' - from 'Complete Kisses'

lyrics
Sachara chara para purna, Shivoham Shivoham 
Nityananda swarupa, Shivoham Shivoham. 
Anandoham, Anandoham, Anandoham, Anandoham.

meaning
'I am Shiva - the deity of eternal bliss. 
I am that which prevails everywhere... complete in itself. 
I am joy itself... I am bliss itself.’

Manish Vyas - Shivoham

A collaboration between Dutch songstress Mir (Twarres) and Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr. This is the version with only Jim's vocal parts. Previously unreleased.

Mir & Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) - The Deep Blue Sea (Jim's Version) [unreleased]

La Secreta - Solo Estoy Durmiendo (from The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping)

I think it's better to dance rather than to march through life. love, yoko