yoko ono's 71st birthday on february 18th
Happy birthday, Fly Girl!

lennon's lost guitar for sale
Liverpool Echo (February 17th 2004): "Guitar believed to have been engraved by John Lennon was put up for sale yesterday for £1.3m. The "lost" guitar is adorned with a heart pierced by an arrow and a self portrait. The six-string acoustic guitar, discovered in a house clearance in New York, is decorated with a letter B, for Beatles, a drawing of an apple and the numbers nine and two threes, representing the birthdays of John, Yoko and son Sean."

yoko ono @ the 46th annual grammy awards
Photos of Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon at the Grammy Awards (February 8th 2004)

yoko in london
Photos of Yoko Ono at the opening of her art exhibition Odyssey of a Cockroach at Institute of Contemporary Arts (February 4th 2004)

yoko steps out in pursuit of peace
Martin Gayford of Telegraph reviews Yoko Ono's Odyssey of a Cockroach at ICA: "She makes a shrewder point, in the current political position, with a quotation in large print: "Naturally, the common people don't want war, but, after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always easy to drag people along." The speaker? Hermann Goering at Nuremberg."

conflict of interest
Polly Corrigan of Telegraph visits Odyssey of a Cockroach by Yoko Ono at the ICA: "Ono reminds us over and over again of the discrepancy between the wisdom and the savagery of the human race."

the artists for UN
PTI: "The Artists for UN is an initiative of The United Nations and Global Vision for Peace (GVP), a non-governmental organization, to encourage artists, entertainers, statesmen and stateswomen to publicly support the ideals of the world body to promote peace across the world. The United Nations expects more than 30 actors and entertainers to wear the "Dove for Peace" pin at the Academy Awards on February 29." -- "The Dalai Lama, five Nobel Peace Prize laureates, several members of the United States Congress and artists including Robert Altman, Susan Sarandon, Kurt Vonnegut and Yoko Ono are backing the initiative"

everyone knows her name, but no one knows how good she is
An article by The Guardian (February 2nd 2004)

On her birtday with Sean. © Arnaldo Magnani / Getty Images