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Yoko Ono – musician, artist, activist and 92 -year -old widow of the late John Lennon – gained the weight of the vitriol when the Beatles broke in 1970, and the details revealed in a new documentary film “One to One: John & Yoko” highlight his personal struggle.
The audio recordings of the early 1970s – the years that immediately followed the splitting of the Beatles – appear in a new documentary “One to One: John & Yoko”, on Friday, in which Ono discusses the harassment it was confronted with. While his presence during the Beatles recording sessions in the late 1960s caused tensions, Ono has always denied having played such a star at the end of the Fab Four.
“I’m supposed to be the person who broke the Beatles, do you know?” When I was pregnant, many people wrote to me saying, “I wish you and your baby,” said Ono in the film.
She continues by saying that when she walked in the street with Lennon, “people came to tell me things as if I was” a ugly Japan “. They pulled my hair and hit my head and I was about to vanish.
At that time, she added, she underwent three false layers.
“One to One” tells the life of Lennon and Ono in the early 1970s when they moved from England to New York, living in a small apartment in Greenwich Village when they became eminent political activists at the start of the Lennon solo career. The DOC is a collage of recorded telephone calls placed by Lennon and Ono, as well as remastered clips of the 1972 concert one to One Benefit, which marked the first and the only complete concert that Lennon played after the split of the Beatles and before his death in 1980.
The son of Ono and Lennon, Sean Lennon, was executive producer of the film and helped the remastering of concert images.
At one point in the film, Lennon and Ono were seen attending the first international feminist conference at the University of Cambridge, where Ono made a speech on his experience of an artist who had “relative freedom as a woman” to the way things changed after being attached to Lennon.
When she met Lennon, she said, “Society suddenly treated me like a woman who belonged to a man who was one of the most powerful people of our generation.”
“Because the whole company started attacking me and all of society wished me dead, I started to stutter,” she said. “And suddenly, because I was associated with John, I was considered a ugly woman … It was then that I realized how difficult it was for women. If I can start a stuttering being a strong woman, it is a very difficult road.”
In 2010, Ono told Anderson Cooper de CNN in an interview that even if the Beatles were about to separate before they did, people “did not think”.
“I think I was used as a scapegoat, and she is a very easy scapegoat. A Japanese woman and anything,” she said at the time, adding that she felt “sexism” and “racism” was also at stake because “the United States and Great Britain fought with Japan in the Second World War.”
In the end, Ono persevered as best she could because the love of her and Lennon was so strong.
“It was a bit like a distant thing in a way, because John and I were so close. And we were simply involved in each other and in our work,” she told Cooper. “It was much more exciting.”
“One to one: John & Yoko” now plays in Imax rooms.
