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  1. Mar 20, 2017 · Today would have been John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 49th wedding anniversary. The pair first met in November 1966 at a London gallery, where Ono was preparing for an exhibition of her work.

    • Madeleine Luckel
  2. May 10, 2022 · Ono was with John when Mark David Chapman fired the fatal gunshots on December 8, 1980, outside their New York apartment building, killing the 40-year-old Lennon. They met at one of her art shows. Yoko Ono didn't know who John Lennon was -- "She'd only heard of Ringo, I think," Lennon told Rolling Stone in 1971.

    • November 7, 1966: John Lennon and Yoko Ono First Met in London
    • November 1968: John Lennon and His First Wife, Cynthia Lennon, Divorce
    • November 11, 1968: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Release Two Virgins
    • March 20, 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Get Married in Gibraltar
    • March 25, 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Begin Their "Bed-Ins For Peace"
    • August 1971: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Move Into An Apartment in N.Y.C.
    • September 21, 1971: John Lennon Denies Rumors That Yoko Ono Broke Up The Beatles
    • March 6, 1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Battle Against Deportation Begins
    • June 12, 1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Release Some Time in New York City
    • November 1973: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Separate

    Lennon and Ono first met in London, where the Beatles stopped by Ono's solo exhibit at the Indica Gallery after hearing about "this Japanese avant-garde artist coming from America," he later recalled to Playboy. He was intrigued by her work — namely, by a ladder with a magnifying glass on top, which focused on the word "Yes." After approaching her ...

    Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, met in art school and had been married since 1962, when they tied the knot after learning that Cynthia was expecting. While their divorce is often attributed to Lennon's affair with Ono, the songwriter later insisted in an open letter to Cynthia that things between them were over before the affair. "As you and I ...

    Lennon and Ono joined together for their first-ever musical collaboration, Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, over the course of one weekend in spring 1968 at Lennon's home in Kenwood, England — the same weekend Cynthia came home to discover Lennon's affair, per the Guardian. "It was midnight when we finished, and then we made love at dawn. It wa...

    The following year, they flew to Gibraltar, where they secretly tied the knot. "It was very romantic. It's all in the song, 'The Ballad of John and Yoko,' if you want to know how it happened, it's in there," Lennon told author Jann Werner for Lennon Remembers, per Rolling Stone. "Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit...

    The couple set out to Amsterdam on their honeymoon and immediately made headlines for staging a "bed-in" protest— inspired by the sit-in protests of the time — in which they did not leave their bed at the Hilton Hotel for five days as part of a campaign for world peace, inviting reporters to come and ask them questions during the day. "We knew what...

    After months of living at the St. Regis Hotel, the pair began renting a studio in N.Y.C.'s West Village at 105 Bank Street, per PBS. Describing their new neighborhood to the New Yorker, Ono said, "It's so good! It's like a quaint little town." "We love it, and it's the center of our world," Lennon told the outlet of why they chose N.Y.C. "There's a...

    In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, Lennon spoke out about moving on from the Beatles, stressing that he had always known he didn't want to go on playing with them past their prime. "We don't want to … be dragged onstage playing 'She Loves You' when we've got asthma and tuberculosis when we're 50," he told Cavett. Lennon also touched on the n...

    Having made their antiwar beliefs known, Lennon and Ono became targets of the Nixon administration, which had the young activists served with deportation papers. The immigration lawyer who won their landmark case, Leon Wildes, wrote a book about the experience at their request, documenting how the pair were trailed by the FBI for three years, accor...

    The couple collaborated on another studio album, Some Time in New York City,inspired by the political climate of the time. This marked their second official shared album and their last before taking a temporary step back from their relationship.

    Amid the stress of their deportation case, Lennon and Ono's relationship began to suffer. Biographer Albert Goldman alleged that Ono opened up about their rift to their assistant, May Pang. "Listen, May. John and I are not getting along. We've been arguing. We're growing apart," Ono reportedly said, according to an excerpt of Goldman's The Lives of...

    • Sophie Dodd
  3. Dec 8, 2021 · From left, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon play as Yoko Ono arranges some papers. Apple Corps. “The Beatles: Get Back” is being read by some as an exculpatory...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Yoko_OnoYoko Ono - Wikipedia

    Relationship with John Lennon. Yoko Ono and John Lennon when they married, March 1969. Ono's first contact with any member of the Beatles occurred when she visited Paul McCartney at his home in London to obtain a Lennon–McCartney song manuscript for a book John Cage was working on, Notations. [38]

  5. Apr 2, 2014 · Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist who became known worldwide in the 1960s when she married Beatles frontman, John Lennon.

  6. Oct 26, 2023 · May Pang was working on the sessions for John Lennon’s “Mind Games” album in mid-1973 when Yoko Ono approached the 22-year-old they’d hired as their personal assistant to suggest that Pang...

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