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Yoko Ono was a trailblazer in the art of self-construction. Her profession has always been “being Yoko Ono.”
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“Yoko Ran’s singing voice… seems to drag the listener back into the darkness of the womb.”
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His blend of Aubrey Beardsley-like eroticism with sixties psychedelia helped to establish the underground ambience…
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“When Terayama first heard her sing “When the Night Ends” he felt as if an electric shock had run through him…”
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Terayama liked to tell people his own father was executed as a war criminal. The truth was more mundane.
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The Japanese Red Army militants who hi-jacked a JAL plane to Pyongyang in 1970 claimed “we are Tomorrow’s Joe.” The survivors remain in Pyongyang today and are now on Twitter.
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By then she had jettisoned her hippy chanteuse persona and joined Blues Creation, featuring Japan’s answer to Jeff Beck, Kazuo Takeda on guitar.
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We’ll be talking about Terayama at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London on May 30th