Waiting for the sunrise yoko ono biography

Yoko Ono has long inhabited a particular space between her reputation as a musical figure and her actual work as a songwriter and performer. She’s a visible and influential woman in music who has often, unjustly, been relegated to the framework of her outsized male partner John Lennon, much like Linda McCartney or June Carter Cash. The wives of rock stars have often been seen in a diminished role – he the universe, she one of its twinkling stars – but at least most of them aren’t also blamed for breaking up The Beatles.

John Lennon’s belief in his wife was met with endless misogynistic reverberations, unsurprising in the hippie era and later, considering the conversative pivot of many of its boomers in the 1980s. And so, in the years since Lennon’s untimely death, Ono’s work has largely lived by the lips of insiders – the cultural cognoscenti who have namedropped the Plastic Ono Band and repressed her records – in our broader sonic consciousness. Her music, both groundbreaking and emotionally rich, has certainly been rediscovered and reappraised in the 21st century, but a look at social media comments around the Get Back film suggests there’s still a long way to go. The hope is that it may one day stand on its

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