Cover me bad: stars line up for Yoko Ono album

*burp*

i bloody love her.

She was several thousand times more important that her husband, i feel.

Erase Errata used to cover one of her songs live, sillily i forget which but it was astoundingly good.

"several thousand times more important than her husband"

mate you have to be joking???

i genuinely believe she has done much more for art and music and culture than he did.

but not as much for the sale of bullet proof vests...

fact

amazing album. waiting for jason pierce cover.

Assembling artists for a covers album of her own material. Christ on a bike.

i love The Beatles, i would call myself a fan of them, i do get great enjoyment from listening to them and reading abouyt them and so on, plus of course i realise their influence on popular music. But their influence on modern songwriting hasn't always been benificial, in a sense it's confined a lot of songwriters into believing that the way they wrote songs and the style they wrote it in is just the way it has to be now. Which is why a lot of heavily influenced Beatles-esque songwriting becomes popular whilst people writing in diferent styles, trying to create something away from the structure and pop culture that they stood for, tend to be ignored. Even punk, for instance, only became an international musical phenomenon when The Sex Pistols came along and wrote songs in the 'rock' style the Beatles created, as much as the band at the time rallied against it. Same with BritPop - it was successful especially for Oasis because they were resting on the laurels that Britain's most famous musical export created. So despite his influence Lennon's legacy is holding rock music back.

Yoko, however, worked on the principle that art could be done by anyone - the Fluxus movement she was part of helped bring together and expose the work of artists that the established art world would not have accepted by themselves. Despite the likes of Q Magazine's best efforts to bracket her off as a Beatle's wife, she is one of the singular most important artists of the past century, whether it be music or poetry or art, and she did a lot for the band by creating the tension that broke them up.

Plus i prefer Paul's songs.

i think she just follows her own tone. The best artists do.

And yes, the songwriting style they had is older than them but their popularity ensured that it would be the template that everyone wanting to be popular would follow afterwards, yet never better. Or at least, in terms of objectivity, never be revered more for. i get the impression that before them it was a much more even playing field creatively, it's just that their continued dominance in music has ensured that the majority of bands will be aping them forever.

Anyway. i like Yoko a lot, as an artist and not as a person married to someone more famous than her. She's hardly Courtney Love is she? i feel dirty having turned a discussion about her into one about the Beatles but so be it.

Your right thommo...some say Yoko is tone deaf and cant hit the right notes...have you ever stoped to concider she sings in an orientle style where they use diferent notes...to her US-American music sounds like the 'wrong' notes...but she doesnt complain...she just keeps on keepin on...putting out her amazing music...to inspire us all and turn us into artists...like her...well not 'exacly' liker her (who is) but we all try im sure...

Dont get me wrong...the beatles are'okey'...but Yoko is ART. Big difference. Ever compared Lennon before and after Yoko? Before hwe wrote 'pop' songs...dittys some would say. After Yoko it was ART. Big difference. She would efect us all the same way...if we give her the chance...if we give PEACE a chance..