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Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: Between My Head And The Sky Chimera

David Stubbs, The Wire, September 2009

YOKO ONO has long been a pariah figure for many, in both the rock and art worlds. She's been perceived as a baleful influence who rent The Beatles asunder, as a charlatan who took advantage of the gullible modernart market to peddle her insubstantial and infantile 'works', as someone who has piously espoused communitarian idealism but who herself belongs to the reclusive world of the super-rich elite.

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