Editing Yoko Ono (section)

=== Later life and dance chart hits ===
[[File:Mikhail_Tarasov_%26_Yoko_Ono.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Universal Music Group's [[Svoy]] and Yoko Ono at BMI, NYC, in 2004.]]In 2002, Ono joined the B-52's in New York for their 25th anniversary concerts; she came out for the encore and performed "Rock Lobster" with the band.<ref name="ape" /> In March 2002, she was present with [[Cherie Blair]] at the unveiling of a seven-foot statue of Lennon to mark the renaming of [[Liverpool]] airport to [[Liverpool John Lennon Airport]].<ref name="Scot" />

Beginning in 2003, some DJs [[remix]]ed other Ono songs for dance clubs. For the remix project, she dropped her first name and became known simply as "ONO", in response to the "Oh, no!" jokes that dogged her throughout her career. Ono had great success with new versions of "Walking on Thin Ice", remixed by top DJs and dance artists including [[Pet Shop Boys]],<ref name="T2">{{cite magazine|last=Locker|first=Melissa|date=December 19, 2013|title=Q&A: Yoko Ono on Her Rebirth As A Dance-Music Star|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/19/yoko-ono-on-her-rebirth-as-a-dance-music-star/|url-status=live|magazine=Time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416152346/http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/19/yoko-ono-on-her-rebirth-as-a-dance-music-star/|archive-date=April 16, 2014}}</ref> [[Open Your Box|Orange Factory]],<ref>{{cite news|title=ONO-Hell in Paradise|publisher=discogs|url=http://www.discogs.com/Ono-Hell-In-Paradise/release/3753125|url-status=live|access-date=April 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310000729/https://www.discogs.com/Ono-Hell-In-Paradise/release/3753125|archive-date=March 10, 2016}}</ref> [[Peter Rauhofer]], and [[Danny Tenaglia]].<ref name="ONO">{{cite web|title=ONO – Walking on Thin Ice 2013 (Danny Tenaglia and Sebastian Dub)|url=https://soundcloud.com/yokoono/ono-walking-on-thin-ice-3|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419014547/https://soundcloud.com/yokoono/ono-walking-on-thin-ice-3|archive-date=April 19, 2014|access-date=April 18, 2014|publisher=Soundcloud}}</ref> In April 2003, Ono's ''Walking on Thin Ice (Remixes)'' was rated number 1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, gaining Ono her first no. 1 hit. She would have a second no. 1 hit on the same chart in November 2004 with "Everyman... Everywoman...", a reworking of her song "[[Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him]]".

During the [[Liverpool Biennial]] in 2004, Ono flooded the city with two images on banners, bags, stickers, postcards, [[flyer (pamphlet)|flyers]], posters and badges: one of a woman's naked breast, the other of the same model's [[vulva]]. During her stay in Lennon's city of birth, she said she was "astounded" by the city's renaissance.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 18, 2004|title=Yoko Ono: I'm astounded by Liverpool's renaissance|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Yoko+Ono%3A+I%27m+astounded+by+Liverpool%27s+renaissance.-a0122323351|work=Daily Post via the Free Library|access-date=November 11, 2013|archive-date=November 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111234750/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Yoko+Ono%3A+I%27m+astounded+by+Liverpool%27s+renaissance.-a0122323351|url-status=live}}</ref> The piece, titled ''My Mummy Was Beautiful'', was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who had died when he was a teenager.<ref>{{cite news|last=Coslett|first=Paul|title=But Is It Art?|publisher=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2004/09/16/biennial_breasts_feature.shtml|url-status=live|access-date=February 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501150614/http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2004/09/16/biennial_breasts_feature.shtml|archive-date=May 1, 2014}}</ref> According to Ono, the work was meant to be innocent, not shocking; she was attempting to replicate the experience of a baby looking up at its mother's body, those parts of the mother's body being a child's introduction to humanity.<ref>{{cite news|year=2006|title=Interview with Michele Robecchi|work=Contemporary|issue=84|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/2664|url-status=dead|access-date=April 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427163620/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/2664|archive-date=April 27, 2014}} via ImaginePeace.com</ref>

Ono performed at the [[2006 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony|opening ceremony]] for the [[2006 Winter Olympic Games]] in [[Turin]], Italy,<ref>{{cite news|last=Elfman|first=Doug|date=February 22, 2006|title=Agony of defeat: Coverage of "oh no" Games seems lackluster to callous generation of American viewers|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|publisher=[[Sun-Times Media Group|Sun-Times Media]]|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10FF1139BB6CE7E8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-date=May 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518233810/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10FF1139BB6CE7E8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=live}}</ref> Like many of the other performers during the ceremony, she wore white to symbolize the snow of winter. She read a [[free verse]] poem calling for world peace<ref>{{cite news|date=February 10, 2006|title=Olympics Open in Spectacular Style|work=CNN|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/02/10/olympics.ceremony/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418233826/http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/02/10/olympics.ceremony/|archive-date=April 18, 2014}}</ref> as an introduction to [[Peter Gabriel]]'s performance of "Imagine".<ref>{{cite web|date=February 10, 2006|title=Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE at the opening ceremony for The 2006 XX Winter Olympic Games|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7251|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427163932/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7251|archive-date=April 27, 2014|access-date=April 27, 2014|publisher=ImaginePeace.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=February 10, 2006|title=Gabriel, Pavarotti Participate in Surreal Olympic Opening|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/59716/gabriel-pavarotti-participate-in-surreal-olympic-opening|url-status=live|magazine=Billboard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916230925/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/59716/gabriel-pavarotti-participate-in-surreal-olympic-opening|archive-date=September 16, 2014}}</ref>

On December 13, 2006, one of Ono's bodyguards was arrested after he was allegedly taped trying to extort $2&nbsp;million from her. The tapes revealed that he threatened to release private conversations and photographs.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pineda|first=Nina|date=December 13, 2006|title=Yoko Ono bodyguard accused of extortion|work=[[Eyewitness News]]|publisher=[[WABC-TV]]|url=http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=4849256|url-status=dead|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629054714/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Fentertainment&id=4849256|archive-date=June 29, 2011}}</ref> His bail was revoked, and he pleaded not guilty to two counts of attempted [[grand larceny]].<ref>{{cite news|date=December 19, 2006|title=Driver's Lawyer Calls Yoko Ono Abusive|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/nyregion/19cnd-driver.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911161545/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/nyregion/19cnd-driver.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0|archive-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref> On February 16, 2007, a deal was reached where [[extortion]] charges were dropped, and he pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in the third degree, a [[felony]], and was sentenced to the 60 days that he had already spent in jail. After reading an unapologetic statement, he was released to immigration officials because he had also been found guilty of overstaying his business visa.<ref>{{cite news|date=February 16, 2007|title=Deal Ends Case Against Yoko Ono's Chauffeur|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/nyregion/17yoko.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115959/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/nyregion/17yoko.html|archive-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Yoko Ono 4 - Echo of Moscow.jpg|thumb|left|Ono at the radio station [[Echo of Moscow]], 2007]]
Ono released the album ''[[Yes, I'm a Witch]]'' in February 2007, a collection of remixes and covers from her back catalog by various artists including [[The Flaming Lips]], [[Cat Power]], [[Anohni]], [[DJ Spooky]], [[Porcupine Tree]], and [[Peaches (musician)|Peaches]], along with a special edition of ''Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band''.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KN9FQC/ Plastic Ono Band (Mlps): Yoko Ono: Music] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323201940/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KN9FQC/ |date=March 23, 2021 }}. Amazon.com. Retrieved April 4, 2011.</ref> ''Yes I'm a Witch'' was critically well received.<ref>{{cite news|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=February 16, 2007|title=Yoko Ono, Yes, I'm a Witch|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2013581,00.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218140354/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0%2C%2C2013581%2C00.html|archive-date=February 18, 2007}}</ref> A similar compilation of Ono dance remixes entitled ''[[Open Your Box (album)|Open Your Box]]'' was also released in April.<ref>{{cite news|date=March 5, 2007|title=Basement Jaxx, Pet Shop Boys Remix Yoko Ono|publisher=Pitchforkmedia.com via the Way Back Machine|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/41503/Basement_Jaxx_Pet_Shop_Boys_Remix_Yoko_Ono|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312043754/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/41503/Basement_Jaxx_Pet_Shop_Boys_Remix_Yoko_Ono|archive-date=March 12, 2007}}</ref>

On June 26, 2007, Ono appeared on ''[[Larry King Live]]'' along with McCartney, Starr and [[Olivia Harrison]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Beatles, Aired June 26, 2007 – 21:00 ET|department=CNN Larry King Live|work=CNN|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/26/lkl.01.html|url-status=live|access-date=February 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829170712/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/26/lkl.01.html|archive-date=August 29, 2014}}</ref> She headlined the [[Pitchfork Music Festival]] in Chicago on July 14, 2007, performing a full set that mixed music and performance art. She sang "Mulberry", a song about her time in the countryside after the Japanese collapse in World War II for only the third time ever, with Thurston Moore: She had previously performed the song with John and with Sean. On October 9 of that year, the [[Imagine Peace Tower]] on [[Viðey|Viðey Island]] in [[Iceland]], dedicated to peace and to Lennon, was turned on with her, Sean, Ringo, and Olivia in attendance.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 11, 2007|title=Yoko imagines peace on Lennon's birthday|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/bpeopleb-yoko-ono-imagines-peace-on-lennons-birthday/2007/10/11/1191696065080.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102141646/http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/bpeopleb-yoko-ono-imagines-peace-on-lennons-birthday/2007/10/11/1191696065080.html|archive-date=November 2, 2012}}</ref> Each year between October 9 and December 8, it projects a vertical beam of light into the sky.

[[File:Gala 2008 290.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Ono at the [[Seeds of Peace]] in 2008]]
Ono returned to Liverpool for the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, where she unveiled ''Sky Ladders'' in the ruins of [[Church of St Luke, Liverpool|Church of St Luke]] (which was largely destroyed during World War II and now stands roofless as a memorial to those killed in the [[Liverpool Blitz]]).<ref>[http://imaginepeace.com/archives/1504 Yoko Ono: SKYLADDERS – Articles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719165320/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/1504|date=July 19, 2011}}. Imagine Peace (October 21, 2008). Retrieved April 4, 2011.</ref> Two years later, on March 31, 2009, she went to the inauguration of the exhibition "Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko" to mark the 40th anniversary of the Lennon-Ono Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, from May 26 to June 2, 1969. The hotel had been doing steady business with the room they stayed in for over 40 years.<ref name="Mont">{{cite news|date=June 28, 2009|title=Montreal hotel celebrates 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Bed-in for Peace"|newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]]|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2009389267_trmontreal28.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110051517/http://seattletimes.com/html/travel/2009389267_trmontreal28.html|archive-date=November 10, 2013}})</ref> That year Ono became a grandmother when Emi was born to her daughter Kyoko.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=January 15, 2001|title=Star Tracks|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20133383,00.html|url-status=dead|magazine=People|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235151/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20133383,00.html|archive-date=April 26, 2014}}</ref>

Ono had further Dance/Club Play chart no. 1 hits with "[[No, No, No (Yoko Ono song)|No No No]]" in January 2008, and "Give Peace a Chance" the following August. In June 2009, at the age of 76, Ono scored her fifth no. 1 hit on the Dance/Club Play chart with "[[I'm Not Getting Enough]]".<ref name="allmusic" />

In May 2009, she designed a T-shirt for the second Fashion Against AIDS campaign and collection of HIV/AIDS awareness, NGO Designers Against AIDS, and [[H&M]], with the statement "Imagine Peace" depicted in 21 languages.<ref>[http://designersagainstaids.com/ Designers against AIDS Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715120325/http://www.designersagainstaids.com/|date=July 15, 2010}}. Designersagainstaids.com. Retrieved January 1, 2012.</ref> Ono appeared onstage at Microsoft's June 1, 2009, [[E3 Expo]] press conference with Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr to promote the [[The Beatles: Rock Band|''Beatles: Rock Band'']] video game,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Radosh|first=Daniel|date=August 16, 2009|title=While My Guitar Gently Beeps|page=MM26|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408081452/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html|archive-date=April 8, 2011|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> which was universally praised by critics.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fletcher|first=Brenden|date=June 2, 2009|title=Best Animated Game-Intro Ever: The Beatles Rock Band|url=http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2009/06/best-animated-game-intro-ever-beatles.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607094255/http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2009/06/best-animated-game-intro-ever-beatles.php|archive-date=June 7, 2009|access-date=June 4, 2009|work=[[fps magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bernardin|first=Marc|date=June 2, 2009|title='The Beatles: Rock Band': Most amazing animated commercial ever?|url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/06/02/beatles-rock-band/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802095125/http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/06/02/beatles-rock-band/|archive-date=August 2, 2009|access-date=June 4, 2009|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> Ono appeared on the Basement Jaxx album ''[[Scars (Basement Jaxx album)|Scars]]'', featuring on the single "Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)".<ref>{{cite web|date=September 1, 2009|title=Basement Jaxx feat. Yoko Ono – Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)|url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7280|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719165333/http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7280|archive-date=July 19, 2011|access-date=December 8, 2010|publisher=Imagine Peace}}</ref> In the same year, she became an honorary patron to [[Alder Hey Charity]],<ref>Alder Hey Charity. [http://www.alderheycharity.org/what-we-do/our-patrons/ "Our Patrons"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711203337/http://www.alderheycharity.org/what-we-do/our-patrons/|date=July 11, 2016}}, Liverpool 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2014.</ref> and created an exhibit called "John Lennon: The New York City Years" for the NYC [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] Annex. The exhibit used music, photographs, and personal items to depict Lennon's life in New York. A portion of the cost of each ticket was donated to Spirit Foundation, a charitable foundation set up and founded by Lennon and Ono.<ref>{{Cite news|date=December 10, 1980|title=Yoko Ono Asks Mourners to Give To a Foundation Lennon Favored|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/10/archives/yoko-ono-asks-mourners-to-give-to-a-foundation-lennon-favored.html|access-date=August 7, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807021111/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/10/archives/yoko-ono-asks-mourners-to-give-to-a-foundation-lennon-favored.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=John Lennon assets donated to charity|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/26/John-Lennon-assets-donated-to-charity/2196435988800/|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=UPI|language=en|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018211848/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/26/John-Lennon-assets-donated-to-charity/2196435988800/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Spirit Foundations, Inc. {{!}} Find Grantmakers & Nonprofit Funders {{!}} Foundation Directory Online|url=https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/fdo-grantmaker-profile/?key=SPIR001#contact|access-date=August 7, 2021|website=fconline.foundationcenter.org|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807021111/https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/fdo-grantmaker-profile/?key=SPIR001#contact|url-status=live}}</ref>