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Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono

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YOKO ONO has long inhabited a particular space between her reputation as a musical figure and her actual work as a songwriter and performer. She’s a visible and influential woman in music who has often, unjustly, been relegated to the framework of her outsized male partner John Lennon, much like Linda McCartney or June Carter Cash. The wives of rock stars have often been seen in a

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