Sinister
Apr 10th, 2005, 01:20 PM
Elena Park-Sunday, April 10, 2005
New York -- When Yoko Ono recalls her first encounter with John Lennon almost 40 years ago, it seems as though the intervening years, with their attendant joy and sorrow, vanish in an instant. "It was like a moment of serendipity. A moment of magic," she says tenderly.
Interviewed last month in her kitchen at the Dakota on Central Park West, Ono, 75, is both reflective and excited about the new musical "Lennon." It may be a challenge to bring such a deeply cherished moment as their meeting to the musical stage, but she says the scene "expresses very correctly the spirit of how it was."
"I knew the name 'the Beatles,' " she says. "I knew the name Ringo because Ringo is a simple one to remember: It means apple in Japanese."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/10/PKGQBC3LM91.DTL
New York -- When Yoko Ono recalls her first encounter with John Lennon almost 40 years ago, it seems as though the intervening years, with their attendant joy and sorrow, vanish in an instant. "It was like a moment of serendipity. A moment of magic," she says tenderly.
Interviewed last month in her kitchen at the Dakota on Central Park West, Ono, 75, is both reflective and excited about the new musical "Lennon." It may be a challenge to bring such a deeply cherished moment as their meeting to the musical stage, but she says the scene "expresses very correctly the spirit of how it was."
"I knew the name 'the Beatles,' " she says. "I knew the name Ringo because Ringo is a simple one to remember: It means apple in Japanese."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/10/PKGQBC3LM91.DTL