{"id":421883,"date":"2026-08-02T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421883\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:50:12","slug":"yoko-ono-has-inspired-many-bands-this-broad-tribute-show-proves-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421883\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoko Ono has inspired many bands. This Broad tribute show proves it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yoko Ono is having her first solo retrospective in Southern California, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind<\/a>, at The Broad in downtown Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

As part of the survey of her career, a special tribute concert, Yoko Only, featuring artists inspired by Ono, including Yo La Tengo, Tune-Yards and other musicians spanning genres and generations is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 8.<\/p>\n

If you only know Yoko Ono because of that whole Beatles thing …<\/p>\n

The 93-year-old Ono has been a major avant-garde art figure since the 1960s. In one of her most famous works, long considered a cornerstone of feminist art, Ono sat on stage as audience members cut away pieces of her clothing.<\/p>\n

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Her experimentation spills over into music<\/p>\n

In the late 1960s, Ono formed a band of sorts with John Lennon, originally as a conceptual art piece for a show. The Plastic Ono Band featured a rotating cast of members including some jaw-dropping names: Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Keith Moon. <\/p>\n

Plastic Ono Band<\/p>\n

On Dec. 11, 1970, both Ono and Lennon released their respective debut solo albums \u2014 John Lennon\/Plastic Ono Ban and Yoko Ono\/Plastic Ono Band.<\/p>\n

Lennon’s version \u2014 musically stripped down and lyrically raw \u2014 was lauded by critics at the time.<\/p>\n

Ono’s version \u2014 where vocal experimentation took center stage \u2014 was panned. Here’s what music writer Marissa Lorusso said of the album for NPR in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You hear Ono’s voice wailing the song’s title, Why, over and over \u2014 frenzied, intense and often nearly indistinguishable in tone from the guitar.”<\/p>\n

In the decades since its release, Yoko Ono\/Plastic Ono Band has found new appreciation, particularly among musicians the likes of Kim Gordon and Yuka Honda.<\/p>\n

‘Yoko Only’<\/p>\n

About the concert<\/p>\n

Location: East West Bank Plaza at The Broad, 221 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles
Date: Saturday, Aug. 8, 7:30 to 11 p.m.<\/p>\n

About the lineup<\/p>\n

The music of Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band will be performed by:<\/p>\n

Yo La Tengo with Nels Cline and Yuka HondaFeatured artists: Theo Bleckmann, Finom, Dave Harrington, Emi Helfrich, Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof), Maggie Parkins, Patrick Shiroishi, Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), Sylvan Esso, Tune-Yards and Rufus Wainwright.<\/p>\n

Honda, half of the 1990s New York duo Cibo Matto, is the tribute concert’s guest curator. <\/p>\n

“Everyone from Tune-Yards to Satomi Matsuzaki of Deerhoof to Sylvan Esso, Yo La Tengo, Rufus Wainwright \u2014 they all cite Yoko as a major influence on them as artists,” said Ed Patuto, The Broad’s director of audience engagement, who reached out to ask Honda to participate.<\/p>\n

“Her music and her lyrics oftentimes have that poeticism. Yuka has done arrangements that really do this work justice,” Patuto continued. “We’re gonna introduce Angelenos to Yoko the musical composer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoko Ono is having her first solo retrospective in Southern California, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-421883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}