Yoko Ono celebrated her 75th birthday on February 18th 2008.
Below are birthday greetings sent in by you.

Yoko wanted to thank you for your greetings: read her message

Yoko Ono's Birthday Thoughts 2008 and party photos

Hi Yoko,

I do not have the words to express how I feel.

So I borrowed some from Bob Dylan:-

May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

May your hands always be busy,
May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your song always be sung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

Long May You Run,

Love,
Gerry O'Neill

Yoko, I cannot say how much I love you.
No words can express what you and your work mean to me.
I wish you the best and best and best always.
Love and love and love,

Johann from Brasil

Hello Yoko!! My name's Chris, I'm 15 years old, Rhode Island USA, and I'm a huge fan of you, John and The Beatles. You've done so much for everyone with love and peace, and with me throughout my life. I can only wish you the happiest birthday and for you to keep on doing' what you're doing. You've mad such an impact on my life (and especially John) Thanks for everything Yoko!! Happy Birthday!- Chris

Happy birthday Yoko!

You are the most inspiring artist I know. I admire your mind, your heart, your strength and belief in human being. I’m the young woman from the middle of Europe, from Poland, but I know a lot of your works and some of very important words and things you’ve said and done. And all of these things are magical and very real at the same time. Woman with so strong personality, from another part of the world brings people from the other side of our beautiful planet great wisdom. Love and peace - not only for the “other” but also for us.

Thank you for everything! You’re a very beautiful woman, person, artist, witch... Happy birthday!

Ania from Poland

Dear Yoko....i wish you a very Happy Birthday !! and hope you will dance a lot !! and enjoy yourself with family and friends...x cheers Christ....Belgium

Have a beautiful day!

Matt from NJ xoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxox¨

Happy Birthday Yoko!

Your love will turn us on XX

Love, Robert Leili - London

Dear Yoko, Happy Birthday and be always that wonderful and universal
as you are. Wish you all the very very best a woman can wish herself.
Yours truly fun and friend from Moscow, Russia - Dmitry

Happy Birthday, Yoko! You are in inspiration to me and I admire you greatly!
Joanne Short

Happy Birthday this month Yoko.

Love and peace from
The Wictorsson family, Sweden

Dear Yoko,

I wanted to wish you a very, very happy birthday and I sincerely hope that you get everything your heart wishes for because you really deserve it. May your special day be shared with family and friends and may it be filled with lots of love, peace and joy. : )

Thank you, as always, for being such a bright light and inspiration and for sharing your work with the world, it truly is a more beautiful and richer place because of it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for bringing so much joy and hope into my life through your music, artwork, writing, and messages of love and peace, I’ll be forever grateful.

A heartfelt congratulations to you on the dance remixes of No, No, No climbing the charts to #1, receiving the Distinguished Body of Work Award 2008 and especially on your and John’s dream of the Imagine Peace Tower becoming a reality last year. I hope 2008 will bring you many more blessings and that many more dreams will come true for you.

Happy birthday! *big hugs* : )

i ii iii

Love,
Jennifer

You are a very strong Lady, I really look up to you. For all you went through with John and Alone. I really admire you keep on going. I hope you have the best Birthday ever I know and Feel John looking over you and Smiling. You must be so proud of your Son He has grown up well. Best wishes to you on your 75th Birthday.

Lisa M. Hubbard
Davie, Florida
Big Yoko and John Fan

Hi Yoko, Happy birthday to ya, lots of love from ladygolddust

Happy birthday Yoko - how do I tell you - you're the one!
Love
Mette

I think of the first 75 years as a prelude of your life...
May this special day touch your heart with happiness and joy, the same that you give me all these years!
A thousand times... I love you!!
You are my goddess, my hero, my life.
Happy birthday Yoko-san!!!
Spyros Andrianos
Athens, Greece

Happy Birthday from Jacksonville, Oregon
Joey

yoko
shine on bright & beautiful

Robert Lappe

God Bless You, keep up the great work you do in the world, in your time, may peace be with you, all out through the world,may you, all of us,John Lennon keep the true message of PEACE, let PEACE shine, let PACIFISM shine, have an end to all wars,and make this whole world a non-violent pacifist no war world to be and live in for once and for all. Peace be with you Yoko and for us all!
Sincerely,Joe Freshwater

Saint Paul, MN

Dear Yoko,

Happy Birthday! Seventy-five is considered a milestone birthday in American society, but somehow for you it is just a number. Thank you for spending your 75 years freeing all of us from our restrictive notions of age, art, beauty, celebrity, love, peace - to name just a few. I will be 50 this year, and I still remember how happy I was as a young girl in Texas to find out that John Lennon, my most adored person in the world, had fallen madly in love - not with a supermodel or movie star, but with a petite Japanese artist who was obviously independent and powerful, both unabashedly feminist and feminine - a perfect role model. And the world had to take notice of you both - which you turned to a powerful message for good. The music, the art, the work for peace and the notion of a world without borders - how can we thank you for it all? Above all, thank you and bless you for your wisdom - your consistently positive and hopeful messages about life inspire me, and now also my teenage daughter. Happy Birthday, and many more!

Love,

Bonnie from Chevy Chase, MD

You are a Strong Woman I really look up to you. All you have been through and you are as Tuff as Nails. Go You.

Dear Yoko,

I was reading the liner notes on Blueprint For A Sunrise yesterday where you said the need to talk about women had not been resolved in the 1970s. You still hear women’s screams in the night. This reminded me of a speech a lecturer gave in a Sculpture and Installation Prize I was in. One work I entered into said Prize was an instruction piece which asked people to respond via SMS to the question “Sometimes I don’t know why I bother trying to be an artist. Why shouldn’t I give up and become a housewife instead?” In the speech she gave before announcing the winner, this lecturer claimed that it was interesting my work should come up now, because she believed “all of this had been sorted out in the 70s”. It is clear that Feminism did SOMETHING for women, but not EVERYTHING. I still hear women’s screams too, Yoko. Sometimes I hear my own.

One night, wearing a white t-shirt bearing your name in big, black letters, I was walking to my friend Celeste’s exhibition, when someone asked if I’d seen a video of yours in the University library. I said “No, but I’ll be sure to borrow it,” while the woman kept talking; “Yeah, Yoko’s really fat and old and boring in this video and her work is shit.”
“What?”
“In this video she’s old, fat, boring and shit.”
“…Well…” I couldn’t manage to construct a sentence upon hearing this blasphemy. But, eventually, I spoke: “Well, Yoko has inspired so many people all over the world, so if that makes her shit, I want to be shit like her.”
I then proceeded to high-five my friend Tamzin and crossed the road.

If you’re shit, I want to be shit like you.

You inspire me to raise my voice.

Why is work that draws attention to OUR reality, women’s reality, women’s pain, women’s anguish—why is that SHIT? I have a right to speak. You have a right to speak. As long as I still have something to say, I will speak. And the ones I am speaking to… Well, they can turn their heads the other way—But I will still speak.
(Is this what we do to our women?)

What more can I say? I love you.
I love you, I love you, I love you.
Happy 75th Birthday Yoko.

Amira

love is eternal

Dennis

Yoko!
woman of genius, woman of heart, woman of peace and woman of art.
I love you.

Edoardo from Spain

I have been studying your work for the past few months in preparation
for a presentation at Monday Club* and I think I finally understand
what you have been doing all these years. Thank you for opening my
eyes, and ears, and mind to the idea of creating "art' and "life"
through Happenings as well as the choices we make throughout life.
Your Pieces read like poetry and your art can make the soul sing. May
all our work for PEACE succeed.

Thank you and Happy Birthday,

Susan
Foxboro Massachusetts

* Monday Club is a group that started as part of the 19th century
women's self-enlightenment movement. My group is 113 years old. At our
meetings we take turns presenting our own research on our choice of
topics within a group-chosen general theme. I chose to study you.

Hi my dear Yoko!!!!

Allow me to wish you best birthday for your 75 years. I benefit from this occasion to say to you thank you for all that you do for us. Thank you for your exemplary engagement and your love. I am sure that John would be really proud of you. Thank you for all splendid work and music that you left us. Knows in any case that I admire you deeply and I love you very much forever!!!!

God bless our love Yoko!

Love
Fabian (18 ans)

Until this very strange and special day in december 1980 I was listening to the songs and music that you and John made, with great love and interest. Obviously it was not just the music, it was your whole idea of manifestation. I felt you were very dear to me, like my best friends. But for many years after this day, I found it hard to listen to this music, because there was such a strong link to sadness. It was difficult times for many people, I know.

Time is the unknown. Maybe also a healer. But this type of healing will be based on forgetting. It must be endless oceans of forgotten thoughts somewhere. Mind games. John was older than me, but now I'm older than he ever got the chance to be in his physical body. Funny as it is: these days I feel joy has returned, and I can again listen to your music and recognize the great power and beauty it contains. In every way I feel you have been very generous and open to the world. Your work and presence has great meaning, and I wish to tell you this. Thank you!

Happy birthday Yoko!
With love
Otto Magnus, Norway

You are such a great artist; draw a picture of yourself on your birthday. Relax, enjoy the day and think of days to come.

Keek

Dear Yoko,

I am so happy you were born!

I, too, am an Aquarian. That we share this is terrific. I have been
told it is the sign of the frustrated genius but I know better!

I saw you perform in Los Angeles at Arthurfest a couple of years ago
and I absolutely loved it! My Onochord sent the message of I LOVE
YOU many times until its battery was no more. Sometimes I send the
message with my car headlights now!

Please find attached my tribute to you - a recording of LISTEN, THE
SNOW IS FALLING that I made with my band NIGHT PEOPLE. I sincerely
hope you enjoy it.

I love your spirit, Yoko!

I am so pleased you were born!

Love,
Matthew

Hey Yoko,

You look so lovely in your photo with your shades and boxing gloves!

Happy Birthday to you YOKO! May your Peace, Joy and Love continue to shine over the Universe!


God Bless Your Love!
L. Seals, Tennessee USA

Yoko Ono's art is more than universe can give
And that is the whole reason why I want to live.
I just like to wish happy birthday to you, dear
This message is not here.

Ville Haavisto, Finland

Happy Birthday Yoko!
Best Wishes.
MP3J

Happy Birthday, Yoko,

The world is a better place because of you. Live a long healthy and joyous warrior life.

with love,

Lea

hello yoko!
i posted this on my myspace today:
"today marks the 75th birthday of my life's inspiration and hero, yoko ono. she has produced some of the most mind-expanding art ever created. she defies gender, race and age. she leaves an atmosphere of peace and positivity in all that she does. she carries her joy on her left and her pain on her right, to paraphrase another female dynamo. her artworks and her writings will take you down warm corridors in your head you never knew were there. her music is spine-tingling, clit-tickling, raw and undiluted. it is whatever she wants to be, whatever mood she's in. she is woman. she is ono. she is 75 today."
happy birthday!
continue to inspire us and fill us with light
-- art rush

Dear Yoko,

I wish you health!

And inspirations
and love
and sun
and music
and flowers
and sky
and motivation
and keys to open everything you want
and so much more
and PEACE!

I can't thank you enough for being with me for such a long time: ca. 25 of
my 40 years. Yes, I really can't. I don't have enough words to tell you.
But, I am sure, you will feel it. Well, this is the next thing, I am
grateful for.

Have a nice Birthday, dear Yoko!
And be sure: I am waiting here for you in Germany.
Hope to see you, soon!

i
ii
iii

Robert from Leipzig/ Germany
with Anna and our three boys

Happy birthday
You are still looking great

Anton Huhmann

Dear Yoko Ono,

guess, this is one of a few million "happy birthday"-wishes to yot today...
Nevertheless I would like to wish you all the best with this Irish Prayer:

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

May the saddest day of your future be no worse
Than the happiest day of your past.

May the roof above us never fall in.
And may the friends gathered below it never fall out.

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door.

Kindest regards,
Haluk Peters
from Heidelberg/Germany

Hallo Yoko,

you had made the art and music history more interesting. I wish you a very, very fine birthday and I hope to send you also greetings for the next 75 years. Greetings from Germany,

Körbi

Hi Yoko
From the moment you entered the scene with our beloved John, you have inspired, amused and entertained. Happy Birthday and many many many more. Love and Peace - Mike Meade, Australia

Dear Yoko,

You are one of the most fascinating and inspiring women in my book. You have inpired, encouraged, and given hope to millions of people in the world, and you are still working non-stop for humanity now and for future generations. Your energy. passion, creativity and positive yourself is incredible, and I love you. Your " YES" makes this world a different place to live!

A very warm wishes for your Happy Birthday! May you be filled with joy and happiness in many years to come!

Love and best wishes,

Miki