Yoko breaks silence to reveal Lennon's last words »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 4 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentFor 40 years Yoko Ono has kept a silent dignity in the face of global vilification meted out by legions of Beatles fans. But today, in an emotional interview, she reveals the last words her husband John Lennon uttered moments before he was gunned down on a New York street in 1980 by Mark Chapman.
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 4 months ago
"I said 'shall we go and have dinner before we go home?' and John said 'No, let's go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep'," Ono, 73, told Kirsty Young on 'Desert Island Discs'.
Young then asked Ono if Lennon had said anything after he was shot, to which she replied in almost a whisper: "No."
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MacR1 year, 4 months ago
Ah, Julian was not John and Yoko's kid. He was John's but Yoko and John had Sean. Julian was from his first marrigae.
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jock1 year, 4 months ago
Well, Lennon and Ono's son is SEAN LENNON. He is a talented musician-but he does not seem interested in following in his father's larger than life footsteps. JULIAN LENNON is John's son with his first wife Cynthia. And I am a fan of Yoko's art myself. She is a brilliant artist in her own right,as was her husband. Julian's music I can live without.
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mr_roboto1 year, 4 months ago
But Julian is not their off-spring. He had Julian with Cynthia. Sean is the off-spring of John and Yoko. Julian Lennon did have that one rather catchy song in the 1980s.
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Natureboy1 year, 4 months ago
"Lennon and Ono have got to be the weirdest two people that ever lived."
They couldn't compete with Ron and Nancy on that basis. Anybody who slips the keilbasa to a woman he calls "mommy" is one troubled soul.
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blinkers1 year, 4 months ago
Yoko Ono had nothing to do with Julian Lennon's birth, who's mother was John's first wife. You are confusing him with Sean, born much later, to John and Yoko.
But sadly, yes -- neither of them had one-fifth the talent of their Father.
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MacR1 year, 4 months ago
How many kids of some entertainer could not make it, cause the public was wanting the parent and not the kid? It is harder for the child of someone famous to make it in the biz than anyone else. The bar is already set for them and people, mostly are like little children. Already have their mind made up and they wont change.
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MacR1 year, 4 months ago
Actually what you are saying is still wrong. Count the amount that have made it compaired to the ones who have not. You are going to find that you are in the wrong because the numbers do not add up. And there were some who had real talent but they still had a last name that they could not get away from.
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bill-smith1 year, 4 months ago
I can hardly believe that it's been over 26 years now. What a shame. What a waste.
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jock1 year, 4 months ago
That's just STUPID. He wasn't shot because he married someone YOU or Paul McCartney didn't approve of. He was shot because Mark Chapman is crazy and crazy people sometimes obsess about celebrities. Was is Rebecca Shaeffer's fault she was shot? Was it Teresa Saldana'a fault she was stabbed? Is David Letterman encouraging that wack-job to break into his house repeatedly? People in the public eye can become targets for nuts and for the judgement of people like you who think they are entitled to decide who they should or should not marry or love.
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jdhatl1 year, 4 months ago
he was shot because of J.D. Salinger's catcher in the rye:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman
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Hobe1 year, 4 months ago
' Yoko breaks silence to reveal Lennon's last words'
Does anybody really care what YOKO says??
The music, well, isn't all relative???
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ningyo1 year, 4 months ago
yoko has really gotten a bad rap in the press..she doesnt come off well on camera at all as well as being blamed for breaking up the beatles..that aside i find a lot of her art very quirky and interesting..some not so much--her music is very japanese which most western ears have a hard time appreciating..very atonal..no melody..i dont care much for it--but the shrieking screaming sort of singing is very popular there..as well as hong kong--i had the pleasure of meeting her several times years ago and she is very different in person than her public image here--very pleasent ,easy to talk to,not some weird devil woman--i dont believe she ever wanted to be or understood what being mrs lennon was to so many--she came from a very private wealthy family and was very successful on her own raising cattle--sean used to rattle around the j-pop world some..ciba mato..shonen knife..havent heard anything from him in some time tho--and what could possibly motivate someone to sink this story??
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blinkers1 year, 4 months ago
Don't forget Yoko was an established anti-establishment artist in London when Lennon met her. It must have taken a particularly tough and determined young Japanese lady to achieve that sort of fame in 1960s London. Lennon was attracted by her art before he actually met her.
Yes, her musical contribution was/is difficult to unravel. I was once driving home through this Japanese city, some years ago when I saw a billboard outside the local "Bottom Line",(Recently opened, at that time). It said "Playing tonight: Sean & Yoko Lennon". I was in two minds whether to stop and buy a ticket, but the traffic was thick, so I drove on by. Always regretted that.
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NelsonR1 year, 4 months ago
John Lennon was ahead of his time and knew the pitfalls of Nationalistic ideology. It pervades all nations and Bush is the point man for this thought. Yes, its been a long time since his murder but the conservatives have benefitted. Ongoing deaths, wars and misery is a human need, I guess so what is, is.
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GOBUCKEYES1 year, 4 months ago
OKAY....for a true fan it is BEATLES not BEETLES. Geez, at least learn to spell. Yoko couldn't carry a tune in a bucket and the kid is worse. When John died so did the music.
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navyrunt931 year, 4 months ago
the woman is nuts. She and john were both very hypocritical in what they preached and what they did. She only has the star status because of her marriage but if you read up on her she slept around. Because of her wealthy background, she had the upbringing of thinking she is better then others.
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aceofspades11 year, 4 months ago
I can't open the story - just what did it say John's last words were?
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Starbuck1 year, 4 months ago
It's funny. You can always count on the Neo-Cons to come busting out on any dead "percieved" progressives to hammer home their insidious dogma. They're always eager to discredit anyone who hoped for a better future that doesn't involve murder, money, or religious conflict. Sad, sad people. To them, everyone's hypocritical. There are no good peple to them, only hypocrites in disguise.
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