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Many people feel that the only important thing about Yoko Ono is that she was the cause of the breakup of the musical group the Beatles. Those people would be suprised when they find out the importance of her work not just as an avant-garde artist, but as a now-realized important contributor to music; not just the wife of John Lennon, but an artist unto herself.

Ono was born in Tokyo, Japan, to a family of unsuccessful artists who drove her to be successful in ways they could not. Her father was a gifted piano player, but was not allowed to pursue it as a career, while her mother was a struggling artist. The family moved to the United States in 1951, after moving between there and Japan over the years. By the early ‘60s, Ono became an important part in the Fluxus avant-garde art movement in New York, and began perfoming musically as well.

At an art exhibit of hers in London in 1968, Ono met Lennon, then-lead singer of the Beatles. Ono has said that she ...

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