The Extraordinary Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is a complex figure. She is an innovator, part of the Fluxus scene in 1960s downtown New York, a musician, a peace activist, an environmentalist, a mother and a feminist, yet her name is most commonly used as shorthand for “breaking up the band”. Her third husband John Lennon described her as the world’s most famous unknown artist, while the world reviled her as the woman who destroyed the Beatles. She has battled ferocious negative publicity from an international…