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Author:	David Sheff
Title:	Yoko: A Biography
Publisher:	Simon And Schuster
Country:	USA
Date:	8 Apr 2025
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Biography
ISBN-13:	9781982188245
Total Editions:	2
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368 pages.

Excerpt from the publisher's website (www link as at 17 November 2024):

An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy.

John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.” She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain—an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko’s part has been missing—hidden in the Beatles’ formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono’s life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage.

Yoko’s life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. 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.

Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono’s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.

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JPGR&B SUBS 17th Nov 2024		The full text from the publisher's website: An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy. John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.” She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain—an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko’s part has been missing—hidden in the Beatles’ formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono’s life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage. Yoko’s life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. 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. This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John’s murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko’s nine decades—one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived. Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono’s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.



JPGR&B SUBS 12th Oct 2023		No. 1 in the Top 50 books viewed yesterday, Wednesday 11 October 2023.



JPGR&B SUBS 30th Sep 2023		From David Sheff's website: Yoko Ono 1981 and 1982 From Vicki Sheff's website [Vicki is David's wife]: The Betrayal of John Lennon November 1980 to October 1983



JPGR&B SUBS 30th Sep 2023		S&S signs Sheff's biography of Yoko Ono The Bookseller, 29 March 2021 by Ruth Comerford



JPGR&B SUBS 30th Sep 2023		From David Sheff's website: Yoko Ono 1981 and 1982 From Vicki Sheff's website [Vicki is David's wife]: The Betrayal of John Lennon November 1980 to October 1983 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



JPGR&B SUBS 30th Sep 2023		S&S signs Sheff's biography of Yoko Ono The Bookseller, 29 March 2021 by Ruth Comerford (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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David Sheff - Yoko: A Biography - Simon And Schuster - Hardcover - UK - 9781398517530 (2025)