Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist,singer,songwriter,and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art,which she performs in both English and Japanese,and filmmaking.
Zbigniew Rybczyński is a Polish filmmaker,director,cinematographer,screenwriter,creator of experimental animated films,and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally including the 1982 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tango.
"Walking on Thin Ice" is a song by Yoko Ono,released in 1981. She and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8,1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman. Lennon was clutching a tape of a final mix when he was shot.
"No,No,No" is a song by Yoko Ono from her 1981 album Season of Glass. The song is one of the most dramatic tracks on the album to address her husband John Lennon's murder. The song begins with the sound of four gunshots and Ono screaming. The single version was longer than the album version and included a spoken word section of Sean Ono-Lennon recalling a story his father told him which was previously included on the album track "Even When You're Far Away". The B-side was "Will You Touch Me". The 12" version also contained "I Don't Know Why" and "She Gets Down on Her Knees".
"Open Your Box" is a The Plastic Ono Band song by Yoko Ono,released on 12 March 1971 as the B-side of John Lennon's single "Power to the People". Lennon played guitar and produced the song.
"Yang Yang" is a song by Yoko Ono,originally released in 1973 on the album Approximately Infinite Universe,and on the B-side to "Death of Samantha". The song was later included on Ono's compilation albums Walking on Thin Ice and Onobox. In 2002,as part of the ongoing ONO remix project,the track was re-released and reached #17 on the US dance charts,nearly 30 years after original release.
Starpeace is a 1985 concept album by Yoko Ono,designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. As with most Ono albums,it did not chart extensively but the single release of "Hell in Paradise" reached #16 on the US dance charts. The album was subtitled An Earth Play for Sun and Air in the booklet and on the disc.
"Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" is a song by Yoko Ono from the album Double Fantasy with John Lennon. Other versions were released,including one released as a single where Ono's voice was removed,leaving what had been Lennon's backing vocal as the primary vocal.
"Looking for a New Love" is a song by American dance-pop singer Jody Watley. It was released in January 1987 as the first single from her eponymous debut album. The song became one of the biggest pop and R&B singles of 1987. Watley re-recorded and re-issued the song in various remixes in 2005.
Open Your Box is a remix album by Yoko Ono which was released on April 24,2007. It is a compilation of her successful series of remix singles released since 2001 with the addition of several new mixes. Collaborators include Basement Jaxx,Felix Da Housecat and the Pet Shop Boys. "You're the One" was released as a single and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States. Yoko Ono achieved a number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in August 2008 with "Give Peace a Chance".
Dave Audé is an American DJ,producer and remixer. He operates his own label Audacious Records,and is known for having more number ones than any other producer on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. He has done production for artists such as U2,will.i.am,t.A.T.u.,Katy Perry,Lady Gaga,Barenaked Ladies,Faith No More,Rihanna,Yoko Ono,Alexis Jordan,Madonna,CeCe Peniston,Jennifer Lopez,Celine Dion,LeAnn Rimes,Selena Gomez,Olivia Holt,Laura Pausini and Beyoncé. As an artist,Audéhas scored 14 hit singles so far on the Billboard charts,and an unprecedented 132 No. 1 remixes on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. In 2016,Audéwon a Grammy Award in the Best Remixed Recording,Non-Classical category for his remix of "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. Audé's songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing. He is managed by songwriter and producer Darrell Brown.
"Move on Fast" is a song by Yoko Ono,originally released in 1972 on the album Approximately Infinite Universe,and on the B-side to the single "Now or Never". The song was later included on Ono's compilation album Onobox.
"Give Me Something" is a song by Yoko Ono,originally released in 1980 on John Lennon and Ono's duet album Double Fantasy. The song appeared in Ono's off-Broadway musical New York Rock and her compilation albums Walking on Thin Ice and Onobox. In 2010,the Junior Boys remix of the song was released as a free download on MySpace Music and RCRD LBL.
"Wouldnit" is a song by Yoko Ono,originally released in 1996 on the album Rising. A remix of the song appeared on Ono's 2001 album Blueprint for a Sunrise.
"Talking to the Universe" is a song by Yoko Ono,originally released in 1995 on the album Rising.
"Lose Your Love" is a song by English synthpop duo Blancmange,released in 1985 as the second single from their third studio album Believe You Me. It was written by Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe,and produced by Stewart Levine. "Lose Your Love" reached No. 77 in the UK,which was the duo's first single to fail to reach the Top 40 since 1982's "Feel Me". In the United States,it was a dance hit,reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart.
"Flavor" is a song written and recorded by Tori Amos,originally appearing on her album Abnormally Attracted to Sin (2009) as a down-tempo song,and later released as the lead single from her album Gold Dust (2012) which features classical rearrangements of selected songs from her oeuvre. Amos stated she felt the song was overlooked on its original album and had to be re-worked and noticed on Gold Dust.
"Hold Me" is a single released by Yoko Ono on 3 February 2013,by Mind Train / Twisted. Several remixes featuring Dave Aude were released in 2013,helping the single gain significant dance club airplay and allowing it to hit number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart.
"Woman Power" is a single released by Yoko Ono. It was originally released on September 24,1973 through Apple. John Lennon played guitar on the track in a performance that Ken Bielen and Ben Urish described as,"especially gritty." Bielen and Urish described Lennon's rhythm guitar solo as prefiguring his guitar playing on his last creative work,Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice." Lennon uses the alias "John O'Cean" for the song,possibly in reference to Ono's name translating as "Ocean Child" in Japanese. A remix version was released on August 26,2014 through Mind Train / Twisted. It reached number six on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Japanese multimedia artist,singer and songwriter Yoko Ono has released 14 studio albums,eight collaborative albums,and 40 singles as a lead artist. Married to English singer-songwriter and the Beatles member John Lennon until his murder in 1980,she has contributed several B-sides to his singles from late 1960s to the 1980s. Ono released her debut studio album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band in December 1970,faring poorly in the United States. Similar moderate success was achieved with her follow-up records Fly (1971) and Approximately Infinite Universe (1973).
