Yoko Ono – musician, artist, activist and 92 -year -old widow of the late John Lennon – was the one who suffered the most from hatred when the Beatles separated in 1970, and details revealed in the new Documentary “One To One: John & Yoko” They highlight their personal struggle.
Audio recordings from the early 1970s-the years that followed immediately to the separation of the group-appear in the new production, launched on Friday (11) in the United States, in which Ono talks about the harassment he suffered.
Although his presence during the Beatles recording sessions in the late 1960s caused tension, Ono has always denied being responsible for the end of the FAB Four.
“I am supposed to be the person who ended up with the Beatles, you know? When I was pregnant, many people wrote me saying, ‘I hope you and your baby die,'” Ono says in the movie.
She keeps saying that when she walked down the street with Lennon, “people came to me saying things like: ‘Ugly Japanese.’ They pulled my hair, hit my head and I was about to pass out.”
At that time, he adds, suffered three miscarriages.
“One to One” narrates the life of Lennon and the artist in the early 1970s, when they moved from England to New York, living in a small apartment at Greenwich Village while becoming prominent political activists early in their former Beatles’s solo career.
The documentary is a phone mosaic recorded by Lennon and Ono, as well as remastered excerpts from the 1972 Beneficent “One To One” concert – the first and only complete show performed by the musician after the Beatles end and before his death in 1980.
Sean Lennon, son of Ono and Lennon, acted as executive producer of the film and helped remaster the images of the concert.
At one point in the documentary, the couple appears participating in the first international feminist conference at Cambridge University, where Ono gave a speech about their experience of “relative freedom as a woman” before their connection with Lennon change everything.
When she met the singer, she said, “Society suddenly treated me as a woman who belonged to a man who was one of the most powerful people of our generation.”
“As the whole society began to attack me and wish my death, I started to stutter,” she said. “And suddenly, being associated with John, I was considered an ugly woman … That’s when I realized how hard for us. If I, being a strong woman, started to stutter, is a very difficult way.”
In 2010, Ono told journalist Anderson Cooper of CNN that even if the Beatles were about to separate before that, people “did not think about it.”
“I think I was used as a scapegoat, and is one of the very easy. A Japanese woman, and everything,” she said at the time, adding that she felt that there was “sexism” and “racism” involved, because “the United States and Britain were fighting Japan in World War II.”
In the end, Ono Persever as he could, because the love between her and Lennon was very strong.
“It was a little distant, in a way, because John and I were so close. We were totally involved with each other and our work,” she told Cooper. “This was much more exciting.”
The production of Oscar -winning filmmaker Kevin MacDonald has no date yet to reach Brazil.
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This content was originally published in Yoko Ono says it was the one that suffered the most from the end of the Beatles; Understand on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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