86-698: Trident Studios was a British recording facility, located at 17 St Anne's Court in London 's Soho district between 1968 and 1981. It was constructed in 1967 by Norman Sheffield , drummer of the 1960s group the Hunters , and his brother Barry. " My Name is Jack " by Manfred Mann was recorded at Trident in March 1968, and helped launch the studio's reputation. Later that year, the Beatles recorded their song " Hey Jude " there and part of their self-titled double album (also known as
172-703: A Vienna press conference, where they satirised prejudice and stereotyping by wearing a bag over their entire bodies. Lennon detailed this period in the Beatles' song " The Ballad of John and Yoko ". During the Amsterdam Bed In press conference, Yoko also earned controversy in the Jewish community for saying during the press conference that, "If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would approach him and become his girlfriend. After 10 days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking. This world needs communication. And making love
258-518: A stay-at-home dad to care for his infant son. Sean has followed in his parents' footsteps with a career in music; he performs solo work, works with Ono and formed a band, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger . In early 1980, Lennon heard Lene Lovich and the B-52's ' " Rock Lobster " while on vacation in Bermuda. The latter reminded him of Ono's musical sound and he took this as an indication that she had reached
344-569: A 1971 custody battle , Cox disappeared with their eight-year-old daughter. He won custody after successfully claiming that Ono was an unfit mother due to her drug use. Ono's ex-husband changed Kyoko's name to "Ruth Holman" and subsequently raised the girl in an organization known as the Church of the Living Word . Ono and Lennon searched for Kyoko for years, but to no avail. She would finally see Kyoko again in 1998. Ono's first contact with any member of
430-457: A 2018 issue of Portland Magazine , editor Colin W. Sargent writes of interviewing Yoko while she was visiting Portland, Maine, in 2005. She spoke of driving along the coast with Lennon and dreamed of buying a house in Maine. "We talked excitedly in the car. We were looking for a house on the water… We did examine the place! We kept driving north along the water until I don't really remember the name of
516-812: A Chance" (backed by Ono's "Remember Love") was the first release to be credited to the Plastic Ono Band. It was followed in October by " Cold Turkey " (backed by Ono's " Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for her Hand in the Snow) "). The singles were followed in December by the group's first album, Live Peace in Toronto 1969 , which had been recorded live at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in September. This incarnation of
602-485: A companion piece to Lennon's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band . The two albums also had companion covers: Ono's featured a photo of her leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's a photo of him leaning on Ono. Her album included raw, harsh vocals, which bore a similarity with sounds in nature (especially those made by animals) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players. Performers included Ornette Coleman , other renowned free jazz performers, and Ringo Starr . Some songs on
688-492: A few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted. On December 12, 1968, Lennon and Ono participated in the BBC documentary about The Rolling Stones , The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus , along with several other high-profile musicians. Lennon performed his Beatles composition " Yer Blues " towards the end, with an improvised vocal performance by Ono rounding out the set. The film would not be released until 1996, due to
774-639: A half-filled glass of water, with a window overlooking Central Park in the background. This photograph sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for about $ 13,000. In the liner notes to Season of Glass , Ono explained that the album was not dedicated to Lennon because "he would have been offended—he was one of us." The album received highly favorable reviews and reflected the public's mood after Lennon's assassination. In 1982, she released It's Alright . The cover featured Ono in her wrap-around sunglasses, looking towards
860-416: A house together, and he refused to accept Ono's phone calls. The next month, Lennon agreed to meet Ono, who claimed to have found a cure for smoking. After the meeting, Lennon failed to return home or call Pang. When she telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, because he was exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment with Pang; he
946-516: A king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on the Beatles' last recorded album, Abbey Road . After "The Ballad of John and Yoko", Lennon and Ono decided it would be better to form their own band to release their newer, more personally representative art work, rather than release the sound material as the Beatles. To this end they formed the Plastic Ono Band , a name based on their 1968 Fluxus conceptual art project of
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#17328526652141032-580: A large number of goods to the countryside, where they were bartered for food. In one anecdote, her mother traded a German-made sewing machine for 60 kilograms (130 lb) of rice to feed the family. During this time, Ono's father, who had been in Hanoi, was believed to be in a prisoner of war camp in China. Ono told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on October 16, 2007, that "He was in French Indochina , which
1118-497: A millionaire! He might buy it." Ono feigned not knowing of the Beatles (even as she had gone to see Paul McCartney asking for a Beatle song score), but relented on the condition that Lennon pay her five shillings , to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in." In a 2002 interview, Ono said, "I was very attracted to him. It was a really strange situation." Ono started writing to Lennon, sending him her conceptual artworks, and soon
1204-546: A musician. Ono began a career in popular music in 1969, forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the 1970s. She achieved commercial and critical success in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy , a collaboration with Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year . To date, she has had twelve number one singles on
1290-456: A number of Fluxus experiments. She also received minor airplay with the ballad " Mrs. Lennon ". The track "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" was an ode to Ono's missing daughter, and featured Eric Clapton on guitar. In 1971, while studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Majorca , Spain, Ono's ex-husband Anthony Cox accused Ono of abducting their daughter Kyoko from
1376-402: A painting on fire at one performance, Cage advised her to treat the paper with flame retardant . She is credited for the album cover art for the album Nirvana Symphony by Toshiro Mayuzumi , released by Time Records in 1962. After living apart for several years, Ono and Ichiyanagi filed for divorce in 1962. Ono returned home to live with her parents, and, suffering from clinical depression ,
1462-456: A reference to Ono: "Ocean child calls me", referring to the translation of Yoko's Japanese spelling. In May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording a selection of avant-garde tape loops, after which, he said, they "made love at dawn". The recordings made by the two during this session ultimately became their first collaborative album,
1548-418: A solo artist, peaking at No. 58 and gaining significant underground airplay. Double Fantasy received an instant critical reappraisal, eventually becoming a landmark album of the 1980s, and winning Ono the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards . In 1981, she released the album Season of Glass , which featured the striking cover photo of Lennon's bloody spectacles next to
1634-549: A sound and light installation in the Apple press office that consisted of four perspex columns, each representing a member of the Beatles, with one holding a tape recorder and amplifier, the second a closed-circuit TV and camera, the third a record player and amplifier, and the fourth a miniature light show and loud speaker. Soon after The Plastic Ono Band name was used in recording and releasing somewhat more standard rock -based albums. In July 1969, Lennon's first solo single, "Give Peace
1720-596: A star in Tokyo's experimental community, then studying at Juilliard. At Sarah Lawrence, Ono studied poetry with Alastair Reid , English literature with Kathryn Mansell, and music composition with the Viennese -trained André Singer. Ono has said that her heroes at this time were the twelve-tone composers Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg . She said, "I was just fascinated with what they could do. I wrote some twelve-tone songs, then my music went into [an] area that my teacher felt
1806-520: A very "musical" EQ section. Along with channel strips from early Neve and Helios consoles , original Trident A Range modules have kept a healthy resale value and are much sought after by engineers who like to combine old-school analogue gear with cutting-edge digital recording technology." Trident also gained a reputation for the sound of its piano, which can be heard on the Beatles' "Hey Jude", Elton John's "Your Song", Carly Simon's " The Right Thing To Do ", Queen's " Killer Queen " and many other tracks. It
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#17328526652141892-675: Is Vietnam actually.... in Saigon. He was in a concentration camp." After the war ended in 1945, Ono remained in Japan when her family moved to the United States and settled in Scarsdale, New York , an affluent town 25 miles (40 km) north of midtown Manhattan . By April 1946, Gakushūin was reopened and Ono re-enrolled. The school, located near the Tokyo Imperial Palace , had not been damaged by
1978-463: Is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist . Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking . Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York City in 1952 to join her family. She became involved with New York City's downtown artists scene in the early 1960s, which included the Fluxus group, and became well known in 1969 when she married English musician John Lennon of
2064-414: Is a great way of communicating." Lennon changed his name by deed poll on April 22, 1969, switching out Winston for Ono as a middle name. Although he used the name John Ono Lennon after that, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon. The couple settled at Tittenhurst Park at Sunninghill, Berkshire , in southeast England. When Ono was injured in a car crash, Lennon arranged for
2150-557: The Fluxus group, a loose association of Dada -inspired avant-garde artists which was founded in the early 1960s by Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas . Maciunas promoted her work, giving Ono her first solo exhibition at his AG Gallery in New York in 1961. He formally invited Ono to join Fluxus, but she declined because she wanted to remain independent. However, she did collaborate with Maciunas, Charlotte Moorman , George Brecht , and
2236-809: The Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan 's Central Park , the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama , Japan (which closed in 2010). She has made significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and disaster relief in Japan and the Philippines , and other such causes. In 2002, she inaugurated a biennial $ 50,000 LennonOno Grant for Peace . In 2012, she received
2322-609: The "Main Hall"). This concert featured radical experimental music and performances. The Chambers Street series hosted some of Ono's earliest conceptual artwork, including Painting to Be Stepped On , a scrap of canvas on the floor that became a completed artwork as footprints were left on it. With that work, Ono suggested that a work of art no longer needed to be mounted on a wall and inaccessible. She showed this work and other instructional work again at Macunias's AG Gallery in July 1961. After Ono set
2408-714: The "White Album"). Other well-known albums and songs recorded at Trident include Elton John 's " Your Song ", David Bowie 's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars , Lou Reed 's Transformer , Carly Simon 's No Secrets , and Queen 's albums Queen , Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack . Other artists recorded at Trident included the Bee Gees , Chris de Burgh , Frank Zappa , Genesis , Brand X , James Taylor , Joan Armatrading , Joe Cocker , Golden Earring , Harry Nilsson , Kiss , Tygers of Pan Tang , Lou Reed , Peter Gabriel , Marc Almond , Marc and
2494-491: The Beatles occurred when she visited Paul McCartney at his home in London to obtain a Lennon–McCartney song manuscript for a book John Cage was working on, Notations . McCartney declined to give her any of his manuscripts but suggested that Lennon might oblige. Lennon later gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to " The Word ". Ono and Lennon first met on November 7, 1966, at the Indica Gallery in London, where she
2580-508: The Beatles , with whom she would subsequently record as a duo in the Plastic Ono Band . The couple used their honeymoon as a stage for public protests against the Vietnam War with what they called a bed-in . She and Lennon remained married until he was murdered in front of the couple's apartment building, the Dakota , on December 8, 1980. Together they had one son, Sean , who later also became
2666-832: The Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965, in which she debuted Cut Piece . In September 1966, Ono visited London to meet artist and political activist Gustav Metzger 's Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966. She was the only woman artist chosen to perform her own events and only one of two invited to speak. She premiered The Fog Machine during her Concert of Music for the Mind at the Bluecoat Society of Arts in Liverpool, England in 1967. Ono and Cox divorced on February 2, 1969, and she married John Lennon later that same year. During
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2752-505: The Dickies . Tony Stratton-Smith's Charisma Records was also one of the most regular clients of the studios during the 1970s. Genesis recorded several of their most renowned albums there, including Trespass (1970), Nursery Cryme (1971) and A Trick of the Tail (1976). The jazz fusion band Brand X recorded their debut studio album Unorthodox Behaviour here (1976). Other artists from
2838-503: The Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award and co-founded the group Artists Against Fracking . Ono was born in Tokyo City on February 18, 1933, to mother Isoko Ono ( 小野 磯子 , Ono Isoko ) (1911–1999) and father Eisuke Ono ( 小野 英輔 , Ono Eisuke ) , a wealthy banker and former classical pianist . Isoko's adoptive maternal grandfather Zenjiro Yasuda ( 安田 善次郎 , Yasuda Zenjirō )
2924-697: The Mambas , Smack , Soft Cell , Rick Springfield , the Rolling Stones , Rush , Free , Thin Lizzy , Tina Turner , T.Rex , Van der Graaf Generator , Yes , Black Sabbath and John Entwistle . The Sheffield brothers had a relaxed working attitude, but also emphasised high standards of audio engineering . The studio's state-of-the-art recording equipment helped attract many major artists to record there. The studios are still in operation, now specialising in post-production for TV and Film. In mid-1968, Trident Studios
3010-504: The New School in the summer of 1960, Ono was determined to rent a place to present her works along with the work of other avant-garde artists in the city. She eventually found an inexpensive loft in downtown Manhattan at 112 Chambers Street and used the apartment as a studio and living space, also allowing composer La Monte Young to organize concerts in the loft. They both held a series of events there from December 1960 through June 1961;
3096-520: The UK to obtain a 16-track machine. The Trident A Range consoles were originally designed and built as an in house project by Malcolm Toft who was chief recording engineer at Trident and Barry Porter who was in charge of studio maintenance. Other studios heard about it and placed orders for consoles and Trident Audio Developments was formed with Malcolm Toft as managing director. Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles
3182-564: The UK, where its release was delayed until 1972, and has periodically reemerged on the UK Singles Chart. Originally a protest song about the Vietnam War , "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has since become a Christmas standard. That August the couple appeared together at a benefit in Madison Square Garden with Roberta Flack , Stevie Wonder , and Sha Na Na for mentally disabled children organized by WABC-TV 's Geraldo Rivera . In
3268-655: The US Dance charts, and in 2016 was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard magazine. Many musicians have paid tribute to Ono as an artist in her own right and as a muse and icon , including Elvis Costello who recorded his version of " Walking on Thin Ice " with The Attractions for the Every Man Has a Woman tribute album to Yoko Ono, the B-52's , Sonic Youth and Meredith Monk . As Lennon's widow, Ono works to preserve his legacy. She funded
3354-401: The album Abbey Road . John Lennon and Yoko Ono later returned with the Plastic Ono Band to record " Cold Turkey " featuring Eric Clapton on lead guitar. Many of the Beatles' Apple Records artists used Trident Studios, including Badfinger , Billy Preston , Mary Hopkin , Jackie Lomax and James Taylor . Part of George Harrison 's triple album All Things Must Pass , containing
3440-699: The album consisted of wordless vocalizations, in a style that would influence Meredith Monk and other musical artists who have used screams and vocal noise instead of words. The album reached No. 182 on the US charts. When Lennon was invited to play with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore (then the Filmore West) on June 5, 1971, Ono joined them. Later that year, she released Fly , a double album. In it, she explored slightly more conventional psychedelic rock with tracks including "Midsummer New York" and "Mind Train", in addition to
3526-436: The artists were for recording and publishing, but Queen had no management, so they insisted that Trident also take on that responsibility. Trident, initially reluctant, eventually agreed and Queen signed an agreement with Trident Recording, Publishing and Management, on 1 November 1972. The management at the time claimed the deal allowed the band full access to the studio's cutting edge facilities, and supported them by providing
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3612-466: The best producers and engineers - so long as the foundations of the band's first album Queen were recorded 'off peak'. Roger Taylor later quoted these early off-peak studio hours as "gold dust". After the album was completed the Sheffield brothers had great difficulty finding a record label to take on the album and release it. Finally, eight months later, the brothers decided to take on the risk and fund
3698-401: The couple continued working together for the sake of their joint careers. They performed at Tokyo's Sogetsu Hall, with Ono lying atop a piano played by John Cage. Soon, the couple returned to New York with Kyoko. In the early years of the marriage, Ono left most of Kyoko's parenting to Cox while she pursued her art full-time, with Cox also managing her publicity. Ono had a second engagement at
3784-413: The death of The Rolling Stones' founding member Brian Jones a few months after it was shot. During the final two years of the Beatles, Lennon and Ono created and attended public protests against the Vietnam War . They collaborated on a series of avant-garde recordings, beginning in 1968 with Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins , which notoriously featured an unretouched image of the two artists nude on
3870-415: The events were attended by people such as Marcel Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim . Ono and Young both claimed to have been the primary curator of these events, with Ono claiming to have been eventually pushed into a subsidiary role by Young. Ono presented work only once during the series. In 1961, Ono had her first major public performance in a concert at the 258-seat Carnegie Recital Hall (smaller than
3956-457: The final mix of 'Hey Jude' on four giant Lockwood / Tannoy speakers which dwarfed everything else in the room ..." The band also recorded some songs for their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the White Album) at Trident – " Dear Prudence ", " Honey Pie ", " Savoy Truffle " and " Martha My Dear " – and on February 22, 1969, they first recorded " I Want You (She's So Heavy) " there for
4042-519: The former then opened The Mad House, later known as The Music Station. The original Trident mixing desk also survived, and was purchased in the early 1980s from the studio's owners by songwriter and former Cure bassist Phil Thornalley . It is now housed in Thornalley's own recording studio, Swamp Studios in north-west London. The Swamp is actually based around the Trident Tri‑mix desk. Since 1981,
4128-421: The front cover. The same year, the couple contributed an experimental sound collage to The Beatles' self-titled " White Album " called " Revolution 9 ", with Ono contributing additional vocals to " Birthday ", and one lead vocal line on " The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill ", marking the only occasion in a Beatles recording in which a woman sings lead vocals. On March 20, 1969, Lennon and Ono were married at
4214-487: The group also consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton , bass player Klaus Voormann , and drummer Alan White . The first half of their performance consisted of rock standards. During the second half, Ono took to the microphone and performed two original feedback-driven compositions, "Don't Worry Kyoko" and "John John (Let's Hope For Peace)", constituting the entirety of the second half of the live album. Ono released her first solo album, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band in 1970, as
4300-539: The heavy bombing. Ono later went to the Karuizawa mountain resort with members of her family. Starvation was rampant in the destruction that followed the Tokyo bombings; the Ono family was forced to beg for food while pulling their belongings in a wheelbarrow. Ono said it was during this period in her life that she developed her "aggressive" attitude and understanding of "outsider" status. Other stories tell of her mother bringing
4386-524: The hit " My Sweet Lord ", and Ringo Starr 's " It Don't Come Easy ", were also recorded there. Harry Nilsson recorded " Without You " at Trident, and portions of several of his 1970s albums. The history of the Sheffield brothers and Trident Studios is also linked to the early discovery and success of the rock band Queen . In 1972, Trident Studios started two record production companies, one of which (Neptune Productions) initially signed three artists, Mark Ashton, Eugene Wallace and Queen. The agreements with
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#17328526652144472-524: The kindergarten. They reached an out of court agreement and the charges were dismissed. Cox eventually moved away with Kyoko. Ono would not see her daughter until 1998. During this time, she wrote "Don't Worry Kyoko", which also appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace in Toronto 1969 , in addition to Fly . Kyoko is also referenced in the first line of " Happy Xmas (War Is Over) " when Yoko whispers "Happy Christmas, Kyoko", followed by Lennon whispering, "Happy Christmas, Julian ." The song reached No. 4 in
4558-464: The label who recorded at Trident were Van der Graaf Generator , Peter Hammill , Lindisfarne and Peter Gabriel . Charisma's first Van der Graaf Generator release, The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other , was recorded at Trident from 11 to 14 December 1969. Most of the album was recorded on eight-track, but the last song, "After the Flood", was recorded on 16. Trident was also among the first studios in
4644-452: The late 17th century. Sites in St Anne's Court included the "model lodgings" designed by William Burges in 1864-66 for the banker and philanthropist Lackland Mackintosh Rate, for whom Burges subsequently work at Milton Court , Dorking , Surrey . At St Anne's, Rate wanted a commercial rental property. The result was a series of thirty lodging rooms to be let to artisans . The building
4730-446: The mainstream (the band had in fact been influenced by Ono). Ono and Lennon began trading songs over the phone with each other, quickly accumulating enough material to record. The emerging album was structured as a dialogue, and was to be credited to John Lennon and Yoko Ono as a duo. It would also mark the return of Lennon to the public eye after a five-year absence, as well as a public reconciliation of Ono and Lennon. Double Fantasy
4816-405: The musique concrete work Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins . When Lennon's wife returned home, she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon, who simply said, "Oh, hi." On September 24 and 25, 1968, Lennon wrote and recorded " Happiness Is a Warm Gun ", which contains sexual references to Ono. Ono became pregnant, but had a miscarriage of a male child on November 21, 1968,
4902-499: The only such store in the country, it played a particularly important role in the growth of those music genres in the UK. 51°30′52″N 0°08′02″W / 51.5144°N 0.1339°W / 51.5144; -0.1339 This London road or road transport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( Japanese : 小野 洋子 , romanized : Ono Yōko , usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ ; born February 18, 1933)
4988-536: The poet Jackson Mac Low , among others associated with the group. Ono first met John Cage through his student Ichiyanagi Toshi, in Cage's experimental composition class at the New School for Social Research . She was introduced to more of Cage's unconventional neo-Dadaism first hand, and via his New York City protégés Allan Kaprow , Brecht, Mac Low, Al Hansen and the poet Dick Higgins . After Cage finished teaching at
5074-835: The registry office in Gibraltar and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam , campaigning with a week-long bed-in for peace. They planned another bed-in in the US, but were denied entry to the country. They held one instead at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they recorded " Give Peace a Chance ". Lennon later stated his regrets about feeling "guilty enough to give McCartney credit as co-writer on my first independent single instead of giving it to Yoko, who had actually written it with me." The couple often combined advocacy with performance art, such as in " bagism ", first introduced during
5160-545: The release themselves and Queen released their self-titled first album under the Trident label in a license deal with EMI Records in the UK and Elektra Records in the US. Trident subsequently released Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack under this same arrangement. After the band left Trident, they signed directly with EMI and Elektra for A Night at the Opera . In March 1968, Manfred Mann recorded Trident's first number one at
5246-577: The room ... The recording was done on Lockwood Tannoy speakers, and had to be equalized post-recording to fix the balance of high-end notes. The speaker drivers used were 15-inch dual-concentric Tannoy Golds, which had been newly developed, mounted in cabinets made by Lockwood, UK. They were black in colour and fabricated in Formica with a gold bezel. Two of the original loudspeakers still exist and more information can be found here at The Original Trident Studios monitoring Loudspeakers - A History Trident Studios
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#17328526652145332-697: The same name. that emerged from Ono's Fluxus concept of an open-ended plastic band. Plastic Ono Band was first conceived of by Ono in 1967 as an idea for an art exhibition in Berlin but The Plastic Ono Band was first physically realized in 1968 as a multi-media machine maquette by John Lennon, also called The Plastic Ono Band . In 1968, Lennon and Ono began a personal and artistic relationship in which they decided to credit their future endeavours as work of The Plastic Ono Band. Under that name Ono and Lennon collaborated on several art exhibitions, concerts, happenings and experimental noise music recording projects, including
5418-718: The studio, the single " My Name Is Jack ". From 1968 to 1981, some of the most reputed artists used the studios for their recordings, including David Bowie , Elton John , Marc Bolan / T.Rex , Carly Simon , Frank Zappa , the Rolling Stones , Free , Genesis , Lou Reed , Joan Armatrading , Black Sabbath , Lindisfarne , Dusty Springfield , the Mahavishnu Orchestra , Krisma , Jeff Beck / Rod Stewart and other artists. Elton John's " Your Song " and Carly Simon's " You're So Vain " were both engineered at Trident by Robin Geoffrey Cable, who later went on to produce two albums for
5504-437: The studios have changed name(s) and hands multiple times, with the original building remaining in situ . On 15 June 2017, a British Plaque Trust permanent blue plaque was unveiled outside the building at 17 St Anne's Court, London in the recognition of the multiple David Bowie albums recorded there. The following is a partial list of work either recorded, mixed or mastered at Trident Studios between 1968 and 1981, edited from
5590-467: The sun, while on the back the ghost of Lennon looks over her and their son. The album scored minor chart success and airplay with the single " Never Say Goodbye ". In 1984, a tribute album titled Every Man Has a Woman was released, featuring a selection of songs written by Ono performed by artists such as Elvis Costello, Roberta Flack, Eddie Money , Rosanne Cash , and Harry Nilsson . Later that year, Ono and Lennon's final album, Milk and Honey ,
5676-474: The timeline on the Trident Studios official website. A Further list of albums is available at Albums recorded at Trident Studios 51°30′52″N 0°08′02″W / 51.5144°N 0.1339°W / 51.5144; -0.1339 St Anne%27s Court St Anne's Court is an alleyway that connects Dean Street and Wardour Street in London's Soho district. Parts of it can be dated back to
5762-567: The town. We went quite a ways up, actually, because it was so beautiful." In 1973, Ono recorded a single, "Joseijoi Banzai, Parts 1 and 2" with musicians billed as the Plastic Ono Band and Elephants Memory and released it only in Japan. She cheered feminism by combining lyrics inspired by Japanese war songs with Pop rhythms, signalling a new direction. After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Ono and Lennon lived together in London and then moved permanently to Manhattan to escape tabloid racism towards Ono. Their relationship became strained because Lennon
5848-422: The two began corresponding. In September 1967, Lennon sponsored Ono's solo Half-A-Wind Show , at Lisson Gallery in London. When Lennon's wife Cynthia asked for an explanation of why Ono was telephoning them at home, he told her that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit". In early 1968, while the Beatles were making their visit to India, Lennon wrote the song " Julia " and included
5934-751: The war, and Ono found herself a classmate of Prince Akihito , the future emperor of Japan . At 14 years old, she took up vocal training in lieder -singing. Ono graduated from Gakushūin in 1951, and was accepted into the philosophy program of Gakushuin University as the first woman to enter the department. However, she left the school after two semesters. Ono joined her family in New York in September 1952, enrolling at nearby Sarah Lawrence College . Ono's parents approved of her college choice, but disapproved of her lifestyle and chastised her for befriending people they felt were beneath her. In 1956, Ono left college to elope with Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi ,
6020-431: Was shot dead by Mark David Chapman , who had been stalking Lennon for two months. Yoko cradled the dying Lennon in her arms, and for a time afterward, lived in constant fear of her own and her son Sean's assassination. After John's death, the interior decorator Sam Havadtoy moved in to support her. "Walking on Thin Ice (For John)" was released as a single less than a month later, and became Ono's first chart success as
6106-465: Was a handmade C. Bechstein concert-sized instrument that was over one hundred years old. The piano was offered for auction in November 2001, but failed to sell. From 1968 until 1974, Trident used four large monitoring loudspeakers in the control room. These speakers were mentioned by Paul McCartney: Words cannot describe the pleasure of listening back to the final mix of "Hey Jude" on four giant Lockwood / Tannoy speakers which dwarfed everything else in
6192-399: Was a positive message, whereas most concept art he encountered at the time was anti-everything. Lennon was also intrigued by Ono's Hammer a Nail where viewers were invited to hammer a nail into a wooden board painted white. Although the exhibition had not yet opened, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's
6278-509: Was an affiliate of the Yasuda clan and zaibatsu . Eisuke came from a long line of samurai warrior-scholars. The kanji translation of Yōko ( 洋子 ) means "ocean child". Two weeks before Ono's birth, Eisuke was transferred to San Francisco, California , by his employer, the Yokohama Specie Bank . The rest of the family followed soon after, with Ono first meeting her father when she
6364-553: Was briefly placed into a Japanese mental institution . On November 28, 1962, Ono married Anthony Cox , an American film producer and art promoter who had been instrumental in securing her release from the mental institution. Ono's second marriage was annulled on March 1, 1963, because she had neglected to finalize her divorce from Ichiyanagi. After finalizing that divorce, Cox and Ono married again on June 6, 1963. She gave birth to their daughter Kyoko Chan Cox two months later, on August 8, 1963. The marriage quickly fell apart, but
6450-456: Was facing deportation due to drug charges that had been filed against him in England, and because of Ono's separation from her daughter. The couple separated in July 1973, with Ono pursuing her career and Lennon living between Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant May Pang ; Ono had given her blessing to Lennon and Pang's relationship. By December 1974, Lennon and Pang considered buying
6536-479: Was of brick with cast-iron piers. Crook describes the result as " Burges's favourite 13th-century French, pared to the bone." The building has subsequently been demolished. Sites also include the former Trident Studios and the 1970s science fiction bookshop Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed . In the 1980s, a basement in St Anne's Court was home to Shades Records, a store specialising in extreme forms of Heavy Metal such as " Death Metal " and " Thrash Metal ". As
6622-436: Was one of the early recipients of one of the first production models, and ultimately purchased three new from Trident and one from a broker at a later time. David Bowie , Rod Stewart , and Frank Sinatra are among the early artists who first recorded hit records on Cherokee's first 'A' Range console. "Though it had a very limited run, the Trident A Range console gained a reputation for its very distinct and pleasant sound with
6708-453: Was preparing Unfinished Paintings , her conceptual art exhibit about interactive painting and sculpture. They were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar . One piece, Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting , had a ladder painted white with a magnifying glass at the top. When Lennon climbed the ladder, he looked through the magnifying glass and was able to read the word YES which was written in miniature. He greatly enjoyed this experience as it
6794-488: Was really a bit off track, and... he said, 'Well, look, there are people who are doing things like what you do, and they're called avant-garde. ' " Singer introduced her to the work of Edgar Varèse , John Cage , and Henry Cowell . Ono left college and moved to New York in 1957, supporting herself through secretarial work and lessons in the traditional Japanese arts at the Japan Society . Ono has often been associated with
6880-567: Was released as a mixture of unfinished Lennon recordings from the Double Fantasy sessions, and new Ono recordings. It peaked at No. 3 in the UK and No. 11 in the U.S., going gold in both countries as well as in Canada. Ono funded the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan's Central Park , directly across from the Dakota, which was the scene of the murder. It
6966-629: Was released on November 17, 1980, and received tepid initial reviews, with much of the criticism centering on the idealization of Lennon and Ono's marriage and supposed domestic bliss. However, the reception and the legacy of the album would be forever linked with what happened just weeks after its release. On the evening of December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were at the Record Plant Studio and working on Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ". When they returned to The Dakota (their home in Manhattan), Lennon
7052-441: Was sold in December 1981. It was bought by its senior engineer, Stephen Short , along with three other investors. In 1986, Short bought out the other investors and opened Trident 2 which was opened in 1983 and the investors were J.P. Illiesco and Rusty Egan . There were also another group of producers and investors who tried to buy Trident in the 1980s after its initial closure, headed by Neville Kernick-Nixon, Flood and John Keating;
7138-422: Was stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress, which did not happen. Ono and Lennon's son, Sean , was born on October 9, 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday. Following the birth of Sean, both Lennon and Ono took a hiatus from the music industry, with Lennon becoming
7224-416: Was the first in the UK to use Dolby noise reduction , and employ an eight-track reel-to-reel recording deck. While Abbey Road Studios still used only four-track at the time, Trident's Ampex eight-track machine drew the Beatles on 31 July 1968 to record their song " Hey Jude ". Paul McCartney later said about recording the track at Trident: "Words cannot describe the pleasure of listening back to
7310-514: Was transferred from New York City to Hanoi in French Indochina , and the family returned to Japan. Ono was enrolled in Keimei Gakuen, an exclusive Christian primary school run by the Mitsui family. She remained in Tokyo throughout World War II and the fire-bombing of March 9, 1945 , during which she was sheltered with other family members in a special bunker in Tokyo's Azabu district, away from
7396-628: Was two years old. Her younger brother Keisuke was born in December 1936. In 1937, the family was transferred back to Japan, and Ono enrolled at Tokyo's elite Gakushūin (also known as the Peers School), one of the most exclusive schools in Japan. Ono was enrolled in piano lessons from the age of 4, until the age of 12 or 13. She attended kabuki performances with her mother, who was trained in shamisen , koto , otsuzumi , kotsuzumi , nagauta , and could read Japanese musical scores. The family moved to New York City in 1940. The next year, Eisuke
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