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John Lennon of The Beatles publicly declares his love for Yoko Ono at the opening of his first art exhibition, You Are Here, in London, England, UK, Europe. Full article:
Yoko Ono : It was very good. I really think he was original in that way, I thought, great. I was probably the only one - the critics ignored him. John had so many talents but there was still some buried talent that people didn't recognise. I don't think he had done too much avant-garde artwork but when he did, he was excellent, above the level of many so-called avant-garde friends. Yeah, it was amazing. Very original guy. He was saying to me, "Oh, I wish I was born in The Village in New York, if I was brought up there, I would have taken over the whole avant-garde." He was right.
There's a piece that John and I did together, Half A Room. Everything is cut in half and the other half is maybe the better half that you can't see. In 1967, John was asking me what my idea was, my brilliant idea - Half A Room, but then I felt bad that he was put in a position of being a patron of the arts. He was an artist too, and a very good one. So I said, why don't you put something in too? He immediately said, without missing a beat, "Okay, why don't you put the other half in a bottle?" It's a label thing like the glass bottles in Alice In Wonderland. And when he said that I knew what he meant, he didn't have to explain, my mouth dropped open. Brilliant!
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There's a piece that John and I did together, Half A Room. Everything is cut in half and the other half is maybe the better half that you can't see. In 1967, John was asking me what my idea was, my brilliant idea - Half A Room, but then I felt bad that he was put in a position of being a patron of the arts. He was an artist too, and a very good one. So I said, why don't you put something in too? He immediately said, without missing a beat, "Okay, why don't you put the other half in a bottle?" It's a label thing like the glass bottles in Alice In Wonderland. And when he said that I knew what he meant, he didn't have to explain, my mouth dropped open. Brilliant!
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