Yoko Ono says she still might write a memoir

[nowheregirl]

Reuters.com

Yoko Ono may yet write her autobiography despite a reluctance to deal with hostile critics -- Beatles fans who still blame her for breaking up the band.

But she is also worried about hurting the people she would write about.

"I want to one day do that probably, but still don't have the time," Ono, the widow of slain Beatle John Lennon, said at a forum in New York.

"There are things that I can't write because it may hurt someone," Ono said. "I think about how it might hurt (their) children and I don't want to do that."

Discussing her own art and music, Ono said she always thought of her work as Asian and rejected being categorized as part of the Fluxus, or minimalist movement prevalent in New York in the early 1960s.

"I knew John Cage and all that," Ono said of the composer associated with the movement. "But I don't think that was how I should be explained."

She said that after Lennon's 1980 murder in front of their home at the Dakota building in Manhattan she investigated moving because there were so many people hovering around the place.

But Ono stayed because it was the home she had created with Lennon and "it means a lot to Sean," she said, referring to her son who was five years old when Lennon died.

Ono said the scorn heaped on her art and music, which now receives more favorable treatment from critics and dance music fans, never bothered her. But she was concerned about how bad Lennon had felt because her work wasn't appreciated.

She fears a possible attack from Beatles fans who blame her for breaking up the band, despite what she said were statements from Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and the late George Harrison absolving her.

[nocturnalquadruped]

People are always going to hold Yoko responsible for the Beatles split (wrongly in my opinion) and there are always going to be opponents of free speech, however Yoko should tell her story, I would be interested for one.

[nowheregirl]

I would love to read Yoko's autobiography. She deserves a chance to give her side of the story and if people don't like it, nobody's forcing them to read it.

[Change of Habit]

Meh. I'm not a big Yoko fan. To be honest, I can't stand her. I'm one of those who hold her responsible for the Beatles' breaking up. In fact, back when she was on Larry King last month, I threw popcorn at her whenever she appeared on the TV. ;D

As for her autobiography, I guess she desserves to tell her side of the story. Though I doubt I'll be reading it.

[Euan Buchan]

I heard that May Pang is writing a menoir or some book about John with photos

[nowheregirl]

euanb said:

I heard that May Pang is writing a menoir or some book about John with photos

Yes, it's called Instamatic Karma and will have 150 new pictures of John. See this thread:

Instamatic Karma - photos by May Pang

[givepeaceachance]

I would read Yoko's book if she wrote one. She shouldn't be afraid of what people might say. Cynthia and May have both written books, so I think Yoko has a right to tell her story too. She might even change some people's opinions of her after they had read her book.

[taylor]

I not a Yoko fan. I don't blame her for breaking up The Beatles. I blame her for turning John against Julian.

[onolennon]

Aug 24, 2007 16:36:12 GMT 1 givepeaceachance said:

I would read Yoko's book if she wrote one. She shouldn't be afraid of what people might say. Cynthia and May have both written books, so I think Yoko has a right to tell her story too. She might even change some people's opinions of her after they had read her book.

Definitely! I would buy the book.

[taylor]

I would buy the book because I would like to read Yoko's side of the story. If John was alive and he wrote his autobiography, I would read it to get his side of the story.

[betsoboogie]

I would read it, too. But I'm not sure we will ever see her book. I think that after being insulted for decades about almost everything, if she really cared telling her version of the facts , she would have done it before, but she didn't, so probably she's more interested in keeping John's memory alive and in her artistic works.
Hat off to her, anyway.

[Mrs. O'Boogie]

May 22, 2008 4:29:52 GMT 1 taylor said:

I would buy the book because I would like to read Yoko's side of the story. If John was alive and he wrote his autobiography, I would read it to get his side of the story.

Totally agree! But I think we have seen part of Yoko's side of the story on imagine...

[onolennon]

May 22, 2008 15:46:46 GMT 1 betsoboogie said:

I would read it, too. But I'm not sure we will ever see her book. I think that after being insulted for decades about almost everything, if she really cared telling her version of the facts , she would have done it before, but she didn't, so probably she's more interested in keeping John's memory alive and in her artistic works.
Hat off to her, anyway.

She has been doing a great job, you know, keeping John's memory alive. If she doesn't write the memoir, well, at least she has done many other things. I can't blame her for not publishing it: she has been insulted a lot, and writing a book would cause some controversy, and people would blame her for wanting to earn money by writing something that has to do with John Lennon.