BRAND NEW - Publication Date, March 25, 2025 - An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy.
John once described Yoko as the world's most famous unknown artist. "Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does." She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted John. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain - inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been missing - hidden in the Beatles' formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yolo's life will change that. In this book, Yoko takes centerstage.
Yoko's life, independent of John, was an amazing journey. 'Yoko' spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history.
This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David met Yoko and John when he conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John's death. In the aftermath, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators and many others, David shows us Yoko's nine decades - one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived. Hardcover, 368 pages.
"Yoko" is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko's reputation but elevates it to iconic status.
