NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It has taken about 40 odd years, but Yoko Ono has gone from being a much-derided controversial figure to a musical and cultural institution. That was the message ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yoko Ono revived the Plastic Ono Band for a concert on Tuesday night that was part tribute, part vanity project and all irresistible fun. The show belonged as much to her son Sean ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Yoko Ono’s eclectic ensemble “We Are Plastic Ono Band” has announced a two-night stand slated for October at the Orpheum Theatre on Broadway. Under the musical direction of Sean ...

A new John Lennon box set focusing on his most political era will be released on Oct. 10, one day after what would have been his 85th birthday. The 12-disc Power to the People collects Lennon's early ...

The iconic Christmas song Happy Xmas (War Is Over) was released as a single by the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community ...

Though released ahead of Christmas 1971, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and its origins go back several years earlier. The song's context is the Vietnam War era and the 1960s counterculture, when Lennon ...

In the rock history, the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in 1969 is legendary. But for Klaus Voormann, who played bass in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band, it was something of “a ...

Artist Yoko Ono at her 79th-birthday party at Poisson Rouge, New York, February 18, 2012 (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted otherwise) That scream heard 43 years ago around ...