Yoko Ono

Amid the alien corn: Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Adina – born prematurely in Pennsylvania as Voyager 1 probe is launched – believes she’s an extraterrestrial sent from Planet Cricket Rice to report on human life

Poor little rich girl: the extraordinary life of Yoko Ono

5 April 2025 9:00 am

Her background was one of privilege and she married one of the most famous men of our time but the Japanese artist suffered her fair share of grief and misfortune

Nowhere near as miserable as I remember it: The Beatles – Let It Be reviewed

18 May 2024 9:00 am

Beatles lore has long held that the film Let It Be was a depressing portrait of the band falling apart.…

I saw a film today, oh boy

4 December 2021 9:00 am

My late friend Alexander Nekrassov loathed the Beatles, which I used to think was a wantonly contrary position akin to…

Ai-Da Vinci

29 May 2021 9:00 am

Stuart Jeffries discusses beauty, Yoko Ono and the world’s disappointments with the first robot artist

Letters: There is no such thing as a ‘good’ Brexit

24 November 2018 9:00 am

There is no ‘good’ Brexit Sir: David Harper claims to know ‘what the population of the UK voted for’ in…

The ideal album for getting rid of guests over Christmas: Yoko Ono’s Warzone reviewed

17 November 2018 9:00 am

Grade: A+ Ooh, you can have some fun with this when the unwanted guests swing by this Christmastide. These are…

Prince and me

30 April 2016 9:00 am

The untold story

Beat generation: the indispensable Ringo Starr in 1964

Starr quality

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Ringo’s no joke, says James Woodall. He was a genius and the Beatles were lucky to have him 

Yoko Ono performing ‘Cut Piece’, where her outfit is cut down to her underwear by predatory snipping scissors

The fine art of bluffing

7 February 2015 9:00 am

My career at school and after was greatly enhanced by a series of books called The Bluffer’s Guide to….These gave…