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Yoko was richer than John when they first met...


And Linda richer than Paul...

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That doesn't sound right to me, but maybe that's just because I assume the Beatles were all mega-wealthy and Yoko was a kook artist. They don't tend to make a lot of money. With that said, I do know she was a reasonably well-established kook artist (at least, in kook artist circles) and so maybe she did have money.

Can I ask for your source?

I did know Linda was rich. I wasn't sure how rich.

Also, small side note: I don't actually mean "kook artist" as an insult. I just mean it as a category. I'm sure you know who I mean? The kind of performance art/ avant grade types who do experimental art. I do think there's a place for that stuff, and some of it is really interesting.

Although, as a further side note, I've almost never heard of anything really interesting that Yoko herself as done.

Finally, while I do think the "kook artists" are creative and can do wonderful work, most of the work is - in my opinion - not terribly interesting and often very pretentious and/or masturbatory. Ono's work often seems pretentious to me. She seems kinda insufferable, although to be fair, I don't know her. I'm just going off of interviews.

I remember one where she and John were promoting the film they'd done about a fly crawling all over a naked woman's body. John seems to think there's a bit of a joke to it; it's fun and playful to him, as well as holding some meaning. Yoko doesn't seem to have a sense of humour about it. People who can't/won't laugh at themselves or their art... well, they often prove themselves to be lacking a sense of irony or play which stifles creativity and, ultimately, makes them produce art in a more self-involved, goofball, pretentious vein.

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are you crazy?

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