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Post by peregrine9 on Feb 8, 2011 6:28:43 GMT
Examiner.com February 7, 2011 What Men Can Learn About Love From John Lennon - National Nonverbal Communication I recently saw a bumper sticker that read, "I still hate Yoko Ono." Yoko Ono has perhaps been the most criticised public figure in the media, accused of breaking up the Beatles, deeply resented by the masses, publicly called, "ugly" and surviving having her music and voice the butt of every Beatle joke for all time. Yoko Ono, the target of hate and jealousy which she and John have openly said they found hurtful. While Yoko has never claimed to be a pop-music artist, sensational as she is, she has shown tremendous strength in marching forward artistically despite being the target of heavy spitting of emotional poison. After all, it was her unique style of artful expression that caught the attention of the most legendary man in rock music- John Lennon. One must suspect the truth behind all of this public hate was the utter disbelief that this small, unassuming yet formidable woman won John Lennon's heart and undying love. www.examiner.com/nonverbal-communication-in-national/what-men-can-learn-about-love-from-john-lennon#ixzz1DImSsa6n
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Post by stevejrogers on Feb 9, 2011 2:01:39 GMT
You know what's funny. Reading the most recent Paul McCartney bio, you get a sense that in the years after the breakup, Linda seemed to get more of the brunt of the crap for being the FEMALE~! (long story tied into that bit, its an inside joke) that led to breaking up the Beatles.
At a showing for Let It Be at a Beatle-fest event...I forget the year that it was mentioned, could have been 1980, both her appearance, as well as Yoko's got many negative reactions during the showing.
Now Linda would obviously be the butt of jokes for the rest of her life due to Paul's insistence that she'd be onstage performing at all times, but in latter years never did get the same "SHE BROKE UP THE BEATLES" slack that Yoko still gets.
I mean I can point to a 1995 episode of the TV sitcom Friends where a character is the cause of a split between two scientists and one of them calls her "Yoko" in a scene. So clearly "Yoko Ono" has entered the vocabulary as being something that breaks up collaborations!
Well, anyway, all that said, I wonder when it happened? When did the hate for Linda being the symbol of the wedge between the Beatles die down and the hate for Yoko for the same thing just go so off the charts?
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Post by alix on Feb 10, 2011 14:21:06 GMT
from the stuff i'd read i'd say they both always got the blame.
But at a guess i'd say the backlash went predominantly Yoko's way in 1998 when everyone came to re-evaluate Linda and realised she was more than a groupie out to snare a Beatle as she'd been previously painted. And that rather than the wedge, she was a rock for Paul to cling to when he saw his relationship with John & the others disintegrating as they no longer needed each other as they had as kids.
Eventually people will see Yoko as the rock that John clung to as his relationship with the other 3 changed not the wedge that made it.
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