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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Barbara Ellen

Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse?

John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their bed-in at Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal in 1969.
Perceived as having witch-like power … John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their bed-in, Montreal, 1969. Photograph: Pictorial Press/Alamy

More than 50 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in, protesting against war, Ono finally gets her love-in. David Sheff’s biography Yoko, published last week, seeks to put the record straight about her stellar achievements as an internationally renowned conceptual artist.

In recent years there have been retrospectives, including one at London’s Tate Modern. Kevin Macdonald’s docufilm, One To One: John And Yoko, is released in the UK next month. Ono, 92, is seeing reputational rehabilitation on a global scale, and all a long time coming.

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