Editing Yoko Ono (section)

==Public image==
For many years, Ono was frequently criticized by both the press and the public. She was blamed for the breakup of the Beatles{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=40}}<ref name="Dub" /> and repeatedly criticized for her influence over Lennon and his music.<ref name="allmusicB" /> Her experimental art was also not popularly accepted.<ref name="allmusic" /> The British press was particularly negative and prompted the couple's move to the US.<ref name="TA" /> As late as December 1999, ''[[NME]]'' was calling her a "no-talent charlatan".<ref name="NME" />

===Relationship with the Beatles===
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Lennon and Ono were injured in a car crash in June 1969, partway through recording ''Abbey Road''. According to journalist [[Barry Miles]], a bed with a microphone was then installed in the studio so that Ono could make artistic comments about the album.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=552}} Miles thought Ono's continual presence in the studio during the latter part of the Beatles' career put strain on Lennon's relationship with the other band members. [[George Harrison]] got into a shouting match with Lennon after Ono took one of his [[chocolate digestive]] biscuits without asking.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08udovitt.html|title=Let Us Now Praise Famous Men|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Mim|last=Udovitch|date=October 8, 2000|access-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310222925/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08udovitt.html|archive-date=March 10, 2014}}</ref>

The English press dubbed Ono "the woman who broke up the Beatles",{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=40}} which had been foreseen by Paul McCartney in 1969 during the group's rehearsals for their film and album ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]'', when he said "It's going to be such an incredible sort of comical thing, like, in fifty years' time, you know: 'They broke up 'cause Yoko sat on an amp.{{'"}}<ref name=":0" /> In an interview with [[Dick Cavett]], Lennon explicitly denied that Ono broke up the Beatles,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALrFZTS1yM|title=John Lennon-on Yoko Breaking Up the Beatles|via=[[YouTube]]|date=January 11, 2008|access-date=August 24, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112025120/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALrFZTS1yM|archive-date=November 12, 2015}}</ref> and Harrison said during an interview with Cavett that the problems within the group began long before Ono came onto the scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vP84g-yn58|title=George harrison talks about Lennon, Paul, yoko ono and beatles beakup|via=[[YouTube]]|date=December 5, 1990|access-date=August 24, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328214448/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vP84g-yn58|archive-date=March 28, 2016}}</ref> Ono herself has said that the Beatles broke up without any direct involvement from her, adding "I don't think I could have tried even to break them up."{{sfn|Badman|1999|p=41}}

While the Beatles were together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as [[Lennon–McCartney]] regardless of whether the song was a [[collaboration]] or written solely by one of the two (except for those appearing on their first album, ''[[Please Please Me]]'', which originally credited the songs to McCartney–Lennon). In 1976, McCartney released a live album called ''[[Wings over America]]'', which credited the five Beatles tracks as P. McCartney–J. Lennon compositions, but neither Lennon nor Ono objected. After Lennon's death, however, McCartney again attempted to change the order to McCartney–Lennon for songs that were solely or predominantly written by him, such as "[[Yesterday (Beatles song)|Yesterday]]",<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2588861.stm|title=Talking Point &#124; Lennon-McCartney: Who do you give credit to?|work=BBC News|date=December 23, 2002|access-date=April 18, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407163230/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2588861.stm|archive-date=April 7, 2012}}</ref>{{clarify|date=August 2020|reason=unclear referent; primarily written by Lennon or McCartney?}} but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive, and the surviving former Beatle argued that such an agreement never existed. A spokesman for Ono said McCartney was making "an attempt to rewrite history".<ref name="billboard_controversy"/>

In a ''Rolling Stone'' interview in 1987, Ono pointed out McCartney's place in the disintegration of the band.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/yoko-ono-blames-paul-mccartney-beatles-breakup-979558|title=Yoko Ono Blames Paul McCartney for the Beatles' Breakup?|last=Vultaggio|first=Maria|date=December 29, 2012|newspaper=[[International Business Times]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231180229/http://www.ibtimes.com/yoko-ono-blames-paul-mccartney-beatles-breakup-979558|archive-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref> On the 1998 John Lennon anthology, ''[[Lennon Legend]]'', the composer credit of "Give Peace a Chance" was changed to "John Lennon" from its original composing credit of "Lennon–McCartney". Although Lennon wrote the song during his tenure with the Beatles, it was both written and recorded without the help of the band, and released as Lennon's first independent single under the "Plastic Ono Band" moniker. Lennon subsequently expressed regret that he had not given co-writing credit to Ono instead, who actually helped him write the song.<ref name=PN/> In 2002, McCartney released another live album, ''[[Back in the U.S.|Back in the U.S. Live 2002]]'', and the 19 Beatles songs included are described as "composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon", which reignited the debate over credits with Ono. Her spokesperson Elliott Mintz called it "an attempt to rewrite history". Nevertheless, Ono did not sue.<ref name="billboard_controversy">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73102/update-mccartney-reignites-beatles-credit-controversy|title=Update: McCartney Reignites Beatles Credit Controversy|magazine=Billboard|access-date=February 14, 2014|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004204132/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73102/update-mccartney-reignites-beatles-credit-controversy|archive-date=October 4, 2014}}</ref>

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's "[[Free as a Bird]]" and "[[Real Love (John Lennon song)|Real Love]]", with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean to create the song "Hiroshima Sky Is Always Blue", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the [[Hiroshima Massacre|atomic bombing of that Japanese city]]. Ono publicly compared Lennon to [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival [[Antonio Salieri]].<ref>Garcia, Gilbert. (January 27, 2003) "[http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/01/27/paul_yoko/index.html The ballad of Paul and Yoko] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619034926/http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2003/01/27/paul_yoko/index.html |date=June 19, 2009 }}". ''Salon''. Retrieved April 4, 2011.</ref> This remark infuriated McCartney's wife [[Linda McCartney|Linda]], who was dying from breast cancer at the time. When Linda died less than a year later, McCartney did not invite Ono to his wife's memorial service in Manhattan.<ref name="Scot">{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Precious|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/eternal-flame-1-1373461|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419170443/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/eternal-flame-1-1373461|archive-date=April 19, 2019|title=Eternal flame|date=May 19, 2002|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]]|access-date=March 12, 2020|url-status=live|location=Edinburgh, UK}}</ref>

Accepting an award at the 2005 [[Q Awards]], Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting. She had responded, "You're a good songwriter. It's not June with spoon that you write. You're a good singer, and most musicians are probably a little bit nervous about covering your songs."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/yoko-ono-claims-she-was-misquoted-over-mccartney-outburst-319727.html?origin=internalSearch|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|location=London|title=Yoko Ono claims she was misquoted over McCartney outburst|first=Ian|last=Herbert|date=October 15, 2005|access-date=February 1, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225032027/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/yoko-ono-claims-she-was-misquoted-over-mccartney-outburst-319727.html?origin=internalSearch|archive-date=February 25, 2014}}</ref>

In an October 2010 interview, Ono spoke about Lennon's "lost weekend" and her subsequent reconciliation with him. She credited McCartney with helping save her marriage to John. "I want the world to know that it was a very touching thing that [Paul] did for John."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/cant-buy-me-love-yoko-tells-how-paul-saved-her-marriage-to-john-l9twn3mhzzn|title=Can't buy me love: Yoko tells how Paul saved her marriage to John|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=October 9, 2010|access-date=September 3, 2013|archive-date=December 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219073553/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/article2759900.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> While visiting Ono in March 1974, McCartney, on leaving, asked "[W]hat will make you come back to John?" McCartney subsequently passed her response to Lennon while visiting him in Los Angeles. "John often said he didn't understand why Paul did this for us, but he did." In 2012, McCartney revealed that he did not blame Ono for the breakup of the Beatles and credited Ono with inspiring much of Lennon's post-Beatles work.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono Didn't Break Up the Beatles|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-yoko-ono-didnt-break-up-the-beatles-20121029|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=October 29, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160901124457/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-mccartney-yoko-ono-didnt-break-up-the-beatles-20121029?fb_action_ids=10151294334734245&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582|archive-date=September 1, 2016}}</ref>

===Relationship with Julian Lennon===
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Ono had a difficult relationship with her stepson Julian, but the relationship improved over the years. He expressed disappointment at her handling of Lennon's estate, and at the difference between his upbringing and Sean's, adding, "when Dad gave up music for a couple of years to be with Sean, why couldn't he do that with me?"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8933287/Julian-Lennon-blames-father-John-for-his-lack-of-children.html|title=Julian Lennon blames father John for his lack of children|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=December 4, 2011|access-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327161916/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8933287/Julian-Lennon-blames-father-John-for-his-lack-of-children.html|archive-date=March 27, 2014}}</ref> Julian was left out of his father's will, and he battled Ono in court for years, settling in 1996 for an unspecified amount that the media reported was "believed to" be in the area of £20&nbsp;million, which Julian has denied.<ref name=Scot/>

He has said that he is his "mother's boy", which Ono has cited as the reason why she was never able to get close to him: "Julian and I tried to be friends. Of course, if he's too friendly with me, then I think that it hurts his other relatives. He was very loyal to his mother. That was the first thing that was in his mind."<ref name=yahoo1/> Nevertheless, she and Sean attended the opening of Julian's photo exhibition at the Morrison Hotel in New York City in 2010,<ref name="Rolling Stone"/> appearing for the first time for photos with Cynthia and Julian.<ref name=yahoo1/> She also promoted the exhibition on her website.

Julian and his half-brother Sean are close.<ref name="Imagine Peace"/>

===In art and popular culture===

[[Mary Beth Edelson]]'s [[Some Living American Women Artists (collage)|''Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper'']] (1972) appropriated [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s ''The Last Supper'', with the heads of notable women artists collaged over the heads of Christ and his apostles; Ono was among those notable women artists. This image, addressing the role of religious and art historical iconography in the subordination of women, became "one of the most iconic images of the [[feminist art movement]]".<ref name="Frost Art Museum">{{cite web|url=http://drawingproject.frostartmuseum.org/mary-beth-edelson/|title=Mary Beth Edelson|work=The Frost Art Museum Drawing Project|access-date=January 11, 2014|archive-date=June 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615102555/http://drawingproject.frostartmuseum.org/mary-beth-edelson/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Clara - Edelson">{{cite web|url=http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=1321|title=Mary Beth Adelson|work=Clara – Database of Women Artists|publisher=National Museum of Women in the Arts|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=January 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110213429/http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=1321|archive-date=January 10, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The post-punk rock band [[Death of Samantha]], founded in 1983, named themselves after a song from Ono's 1972 album ''[[Approximately Infinite Universe]]'', also called "[[Death of Samantha (song)|Death of Samantha]]".<ref>Christopher Evans, "Death of Samantha: Notes from the Underground", ''The Plain Dealer Magazine'', February 22, 1987, p. 6.</ref>

Canadian rock band [[Barenaked Ladies]]' debut single was "[[Be My Yoko Ono]]", first released in 1990 and later appearing on their 1992 album ''[[Gordon (album)|Gordon]]''.<ref name=FM>{{cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Barenaked+Ladies/_/Be+My+Yoko+Ono|title=Barenaked Ladies: Be My Yoko Ono|publisher=last.fm|access-date=February 7, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105123126/http://www.last.fm/music/Barenaked+Ladies/_/Be+My+Yoko+Ono|archive-date=November 5, 2012}}</ref> The lyrics are "a shy entreaty to a potential girlfriend, caged in terms that self-deflatingly compare himself to one of pop music's foremost geniuses". It also has a "sarcastic imitation of Yoko Ono's unique vocal style in the bridge".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/be-my-yoko-ono-mt0006937715|title=Barenaked Ladies: Be My Yoko Ono (Overview)|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 7, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129225235/http://www.allmusic.com/song/be-my-yoko-ono-mt0006937715|archive-date=January 29, 2014}}</ref>

In 2000, American folk singer [[Dar Williams]] recorded a song titled "I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.discogs.com/Dar-Williams-I-Wont-Be-Your-Yoko-Ono/release/3762272|title=Dar Williams – I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono|publisher=discogs|access-date=February 7, 2014|archive-date=February 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218091059/https://www.discogs.com/Dar-Williams-I-Wont-Be-Your-Yoko-Ono/release/3762272|url-status=live}}</ref> Bryan Wawzenek of the website ''Ultimate Classic Rock'' described the song as "us[ing] John and Yoko as a starting point for exploring love, and particularly, love between artists".<ref name="Ultimate">{{cite web|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yoko-ono-inspired-songs/|title=Top 10 Songs Inspired by Yoko Ono|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=February 18, 2013 |access-date=June 24, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170619103724/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/yoko-ono-inspired-songs/|archive-date=June 19, 2017}}</ref>

The British band [[Elbow (band)|Elbow]] mentioned Ono in their song "New York Morning" from their 2014 album ''[[The Take Off and Landing of Everything]]'' ("Oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk / It's the modern Rome and folk are nice to Yoko"). In response Ono posted an open letter to the band on her website, thanking them and reflecting on her and Lennon's relationship with the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/elbow/75881|title=Yoko Ono thanks Elbow for new song 'New York Morning' in open letter|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=March 5, 2014|website=[[NME]]|access-date=April 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308151301/http://www.nme.com/news/elbow/75881 |archive-date=March 8, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Public Enemy (group)|Public Enemy]]'s song "[[Bring the Noise]]", [[Chuck D]] and [[Flavor Flav]] rap, "Beat is for [[Sonny Bono]]/Beat is for Yoko Ono!"<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dancinginyourhea0000sant|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/dancinginyourhea0000sant/page/118 118]|quote=beat is for sonny bono beat is for yoko ono.|title=Dancing in Your Head: Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Beyond|first=Gene|last=Santoro |date=December 29, 1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195101232 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=John Leland |title=Singles |magazine=SPIN |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baaFL4PyjS0C&q=beat+is+for+sonny+bono+beat+is+for+yoko+ono&pg=PA34 |date=February 1, 1988 |via=Google Books}}</ref> Ono's name also appears in the lyrics of the [[Le Tigre]] song "[[Hot Topic (song)|Hot Topic]]", and the [[Tally Hall]] song "&".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/hot-topic-lyrics-le-tigre-who-is.html|title=57 Champions of Queer Feminism, All Name-Dropped in One Impossibly Catchy Song|first=Tammy|last=Oler|date=October 31, 2019|website=Slate Magazine|access-date=December 8, 2020|archive-date=November 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129211533/https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/hot-topic-lyrics-le-tigre-who-is.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In ''[[The Simpsons]]''' episode 1 of season 5, "[[Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]", Barney who is in Homer's band, has creative disputes within the group when he falls in love with a Japanese conceptual artist who resembles Yoko Ono.<ref name="Kirkland">{{cite video |people=Kirkland, Mark |date=2004 |title=The Simpsons season 5 DVD commentary for the episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" |medium=DVD |publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref>

Ono was a central theme in English comedian [[James Acaster]]'s 2013 show ''Lawnmower'', which was nominated for the [[Edinburgh Comedy Awards|Edinburgh Comedy Award]] for Best Show.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Logan |first=Brian |date=2013-08-15 |title=James Acaster – Edinburgh festival 2013 review |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/15/james-acaster-edinburgh-2013-review |access-date=2023-07-03 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703222616/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/15/james-acaster-edinburgh-2013-review |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Premier |title=2013 Nominee – James Acaster – Best Comedy Show |url=https://www.comedyawards.co.uk/best-comedy-show/2013/james-acaster-2013 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Edinburgh Comedy Awards |language=en-GB |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703222619/https://www.comedyawards.co.uk/best-comedy-show/2013/james-acaster-2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The anime ''[[Case Closed|Detective Conan]]'' features a recurring character named Yoko Okino, who is a pop star and actress based on Yoko Ono.