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Article: Yoko Ono's valentine to John: the musical 'Lennon'
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- August 5, 2005
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LISA TOLIN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-05-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
It was not long after she met John Lennon that Yoko Ono realized she had become one of the most hated women on the planet.
Sitting in her apartment in the Dakota, just a stone's throw from where Lennon was gunned down nearly 25 years ago, Ono takes herself back four decades to an art party in London where one of her sculptures was on display.
"We opened the door, came in, and they all looked at us, and they all turned their backs," she says. When Lennon went to get coffee, the woman at the counter said, "'Get it yourself, it's there.'"
He did, and guided Ono to a narrow staircase away from the crowd, where they ...