Elliot Mintz discusses the relationship of Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
In this Women of the Beatles biography video, friend Elliot Mintz discusses the relationship of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Mintz claimed that while the Beatles were talented, they were also very sexist and macho and made their wives and girlfriends look on at them from the control room. John Lennon, on the other hand, truly loved Yoko Ono and invited her to be in the studio with him; you can see Yoko in some of their videos.
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Yoko Ono met John Lennon in 1966 during a preview of Ono's art exhibition at a London gallery. The began an affair a year later and, after Cynthia Lennon filed for divorce, married in 1969. In addition to collaborating on numerous recordings, including Two Virgins and "Give Peace a Chance," the couple held "Bed-ins for Peace" to protest the Vietnam War. After the Beatles's breakup, they moved to New York, where their son, Sean Ono Lennon, was born in 1975. Lennon was shot and killed outside their apartment building on December 8, 1980. In his memory, Ono founded the Strawberry fields Memorial in Central Park, the John Lennon Museum in her hometown of Saitama, Japan, and the Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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