{"product_id":"yoko","title":"Yoko","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBeautiful Boy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDavid Sheff met Yoko Ono and John Lennon in 1980 when conducting an in-depth interview with them just months before John’s murder. In the aftermath, Sheff and Yoko became close friends as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and continued creating groundbreaking art and music. Drawing from their decades-long friendship and interviews with Yoko, her family, close friends and collaborators, Sheff shares the story of one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYoko \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003espans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo and her harrowing experience as a child during WW2 to her arrival in the avant-garde art scenes of London, Tokyo and New York. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo often remembered only for her impact on The Beatles, Yoko has been caricatured as an opportunistic seductress or manipulative impostor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYoko \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edelves into her life as an artist, musician, feminist and activist, reframing her incredible achievements independent of Lennon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eYoko \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis a harrowing, moving, propulsive and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. It highlights Ono’s incredible talent and acknowledges her as a true artistic icon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":51568784998731,"sku":"R7211-7586","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/81dX2N1dWFL._SY522.jpg?v=1743606626","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/yoko","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}