YOKO

Absorbing Telegraph Gentle empathetic committed to righting undeniable wrongs Sunday Times Book of the Week Illuminating and affectionate an intimate and perceptive portrait Publishers WeeklyAn intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from bestselling author of Beautiful BoyDavid Sheff met Yoko Ono and John Lennon in 1980 when conducting an in depth interview with them just months before John s murder In the aftermath Sheff and Yoko became close friends as she rebuilt her life survived threats and continued creating groundbreaking art and music Drawing from their decades long friendship and interviews with Yoko her family close friends and collaborators Sheff shares the story of one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre war Tokyo and her harrowing experience as a child during WW2 to her arrival in the avant garde art scenes of London Tokyo and New York We see how she coped under the most intense relentless and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable breaking up the greatest rock and roll band in history So often remembered only for her impact on The Beatles Yoko has been caricatured as an opportunistic seductress or manipula