Otanjobi Omedeto-gozaimasu
Happy Birthday, dear Yoko!
I hope that this year will be full of joy, happiness and excitement.
I am so glad that I can share this time being here with you on Earth.
Let's make this world for the better as our mission like you have said.
I look forward to meeting you soon again somewhere.

Lots of love.
Mikihiko Hori

Happy happy birthday Yoko
...and the year of the pig in China... celebrate

nobody told me there'd be daze like these
Dennis

A very very Happy Birthday Yoko (belated here but...) We do love you very much. Each day we make a contribution, in what ever big or small way, towards world peace and understanding, we also say;

i
ii
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Yoko
(and John).

Live long and bloom bright.

R. D. Eckart
Lancaster, CA

Dear Yoko,

What more can I say than Happy Birthday, thank you for the years of inspiration you have given the world. You have certainly been a constant presence in my life, and this is evident in the artwork i produce. Without you in so many people's lives, everything would be that much more dull. Thank you for giving so much positive energy.

amira.h.
Adelaide, South Australia

Happy birthday, Yoko! I want to thank you so much for the positive effect you've had on my life. Your music helped me keep my sanity growing up gay in rural Arkansas, and Season of Glass and It's Alright capture brilliantly how I felt when my first husband died.

You sometimes worry that regular people aren't getting what you're doing. So you might like to know that I played "John and Yoko" from Wedding Album in its entirety for my new love, Jason. He has no art background, no acquaintance with avant-garde art, yet he found it as beautiful as I do, and he told me that it captures our love and intensity perfectly.

Thanks for signing my CD at Borders. You look beautiful. A lot of people think they're paying you a compliment by saying you look younger, but that's just being ageist. You do look your age, and you're proving that seventy-four is as beautiful as twenty-four. I think the perception of you being younger comes from the fact that you still have your fire and curiosity intact; few people can keep that past thirty, let alone as long as you have.

It must be awkward for you to get so many personal messages from perfect strangers, but you have given more of yourself to us in your art than most artists ever do. Anyway, thank you again, and happy birthday. :)

love,
Mike Russell

Happy birthday Yoko and thanks for all you bring to me with your words, your music, your presence, your silence, your love... You have the power to attract what you wish, Wish for health, wish for joy. Remember you are loved.

Love,
Alfonso
Barcelona, Spain

Hi Yoko,

Happy birthday for the 18th. Hope you had a great day.

I've spent my whole life being told by my friends how like you I am. The reason I believe is the fact that we were born on the same day even though there were some years in between. I was born 02/18/1958.

Needless to say I think you are great and such a wonderful light in the world.
Again the happiest of birthdays to you.

Your star brother on the other side of the world, Sydney Australia.
Tony Scheeren

happy happy birthday, yoko. i'm guessing you are so busy you will read these late if at all, so i hope you forgive my tadiness. i always tell people how great you are. i'm glad you are in the world. i think you have a great sense of humor. my mom was japanese and she always told me you came from a great family and are a fantastic artist. your grapefruit book makes me giggle.

peace to you.
chris lopez