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November 23, 2009

Bitch Celebrates Yoko Ono: Hated, Courageous, Radical, Misunderstood...

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3. Radical
I first encountered Yoko Ono when I was a teenager. I thought she looked cool. I saw pictures of her all in white with the black hair, and I thought she was really chic and intriguing.

I did a talk on Yoko in Minneapolis during her “Y E S Yoko Ono” exhibition in 2001, and I was listening to the boxed set that she put out, just going through and listening to it CD by CD. I forget what song it is, but it’s John just [playing] feedback guitar with Yoko’s voice, and it’s one of the most radical things ever. It would be amazing if people could really hear John Lennon playing this. And her lyrics were so pro-choice; they were very ahead of her time.

When I saw “Cut Piece,” she just looked so vulnerable, and it was almost like a foretelling of what would happen when she became involved with John. People obviously wanted to remove her mask.

—kim gordon, artist and musician



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