Yoko Ono’s 90th Birthday

To celebrate Yoko’s 90th, I bought a couple of Yoko-related items for my collection:

1) a rare LP collaboration between the Flaming Lips and Yoko Ono

Here is the description from eBay:

The Flaming Lips/Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band multi-colored vinyl 1/1400 NEW. This is a weird one. 600 pressed in glow-in-the-dark vinyl. 1400 colored vinyl pieces sold at exclusive indie record shops. The Fear Litany, Do It! and Brain Of Heaven on side A at 33rpm. Atlas Eets Christmas on side B at 45rpm.

All songs were written by Flaming Lips, Yoko Ono, and Sean Lennon. With The Fear Of Litany featuring lyrics from Frank Herberts Dune. Released in 2011 with the glow in the dark 600 pieces were sold at New Year’s Eve shows exclusively.

2). Avant Garde Magazine 9 November 1969 John Lennon Yoko Ono-this is not the controversial lithograph issue of the magazine

Since good things come in threes:

3) A book that now resides in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame archives and has received universal acclaim-Author Madeline Bocaro.

Find out more here from Madeline’s websites:

inyourmindbook.com

conceptualbooks.com

4) Picked up this LP from 2012 which features a Yoko appearance on a John Cage experimental piece from 1961. Yoko’s first husband Toshi Ichiyanagi is on piano.

John Cage– 26’55.988″ For 2 Pianists & A String Player Piano [Pf] – David Tudor, Toshi Ichiyanagi Violin [Vn] – Kenji Kobayashi Vocals [Vo] – Yoko Ono