![]() ![]() (October 10th, 2005)Old guard of British music recognised at Q awards, The Guardian (Oct 11, 2005)“SIR PAUL: YOKO NOT BRIGHTEST” Mirror (Oct 17, 2005)“John Lennon, The Life” by Philip Norman (2008)Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner” by Joe Hagan (2016)Paul McCaretney, “The Howard Stern Show” 2009“Yoko in Her Own Words” BBC 2 (2010)“Still Prancing,” The David Frost Interview 2013“The Esquire Interview” by Alex Bimes 2015“Yoko: John Lennon was Bisexual” Daily Beast (Oct 15, 2015)The Truth About Paul McCartney's Relationship With Yoko Ono “The List” by Stephanie Kaloi (May 24, 2021)NMPA Awards Show Sean and Yoko Accept Centennial Award (2017)Sean Lennon, London Telegraph (Nov 2010)“Lennon at 80” Sean Interviews Paul, BBC (2020)“Sean Ono Lennon Reflects on 10 John Lennon Solo Classics” Rolling Stone by Angie Martaccio (Oct 9 2020)Sean Instagram June 18, 2022“Paul McCartney Doesn’t Really Want to Stop the Show” The New Yorker by David Remnick (Oct 11, 2021)The LYRICS by Paul McCartney ed. (February 4th, 2002)Yoko Ono, interview w/ Paul Trynka for MOJO. Paul McCartney “The Howard Stern Show” (2001)Tampa Bay Times, Yoko Ono: 10 pressing questions: Details sketched by Yoko. It's the new millennium! Paul and Yoko get real and the truth comes out! Will it draw them and their families closer together? Or deepen the divide? How do Paul and Yoko see their own relationship? As kindred spirits or mortal enemies? Honda is especially amused because she saw the same sort of thing happen in Japan when she was younger.Welcome to STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, an AKOM series about Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney after John Lennon's death. "But it's really interesting that now I see people wearing T-shirts that say some word in Japanese." "I was thinking, like, 'Wow!' Like I would never think that would happen. "I remember when I saw 'Blade Runner,' and you had all these Asian people living with all this Asian culture in America," she says. She adds that things do seem to be slowly shifting in America's understanding of Asian culture. " I'm kind of thinking of as a lot more longer-term thing." ![]() "Things can never work with aggression," she says. "It comes after me everywhere I go."Įven so, Cibo Matto isn't the sort of band that wants to make an issue out of this. "People are like, 'Oh, Yoko's Japanese, and Yuka's Japanese,' " Honda complains. There are a lot of things people just think is the way it is."Įven Honda's relationship with Lennon is grist for the cliche mill. It's a little harder to deal with, because it doesn't necessarily come from a malicious mind trying to hurt you. "But everything they do to us is stereotype anyway, and I think it definitely comes from some kind of unconscious thing," she says. Honda says there are some cliches that follow the band in almost every interview - " 'The girls from the Land of the Rising Sun' is one," she laughs - and that few people have grasped that the "A" in "Stereotype A" stands for "Asian." To an extent, part of the "mystery" surrounding Cibo Matto has to do with American preconceptions about what Japanese people and pop culture are about. And for some people, it's very mysterious." It's really interesting, because some people just get them so right, so fast. "There's definitely that confusion that happens with us with American people," she says. But, as Honda admits, not every listener - or even reviewer - gets the picture. Once the metaphor is grasped, the lyric seems as obvious as it is ingenious. Or, as the song puts it, "We can't avoid the lint of love/And you've got to know how to take it away." Friction causes lint, and if you wear something for a long time, you get lint, and you have to deal with that." I think that's how Miho was able to think from lint to how it's like relationships. Everything that's happening to one thing can totally relate to other things. ![]() We don't think of one thing as an independent thing from another. ![]()
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