How did Lennon and Yoko Ono Lennon meet?

There are several stories about their meeting.

Lennon and Yoko met at an exhibition in London. Yoko handed Lennon a piece of paper with only two words on it: "Breathe".

Yoko said that she didn't know what the Beatles were before she met Lennon.

There is an underground group in London: John Dunbar, who married marianne faithfull and opened a gallery called Indica in London. I take a break between recording records and occasionally go to some art galleries. I once saw takis's exhibition-I don't know if you know what it is-and he made a multimedia electromagnetic sculpture. I have also seen some exhibitions, and different art galleries have exhibitions of works by unknown authors or underground artists. I heard that an incredible woman is preparing for the exhibition next week. I heard that people will be put into bags, black bags, and there will be performances like accidents. I went to the rehearsal the night before the opening ceremony. I walked in-she didn't know who I was, she didn't know anything-and hung around in it. Some art students help decorate the art museum. I was shocked to see what they were doing. An apple cost 200 pounds, and I thought it was wonderful-I understood the sense of humor in her works on the spot. I didn't need to know much about avant-garde or underground art before, but this sense of humor immediately caught my attention. There is a fresh apple on the shelf-this was before Apple was founded-and you have to spend 200 pounds to watch it rot slowly. However, another gift is the key for me to decide whether I like or hate this artist: there is a ladder to show you a picture hanging on the ceiling, which looks like a black oil painting, with a chain hanging there and a magnifying glass at the end. This work is where I came in from the door. I climbed up the ladder and saw a row of tiny letters with "yes" written on them through the magnifying glass. The meaning was very certain, and I was relieved. This is a real relief, because when you climb the ladder, what you see through the magnifying glass is not no, and it's not fuck you, it just says yes.

I was deeply moved by it. John Dunbar introduced us-we don't know what each other is and she doesn't know who I am. She has only heard of Ringo, which I think means apple in Japanese. John Dunbar seems to be urging her to speak. He said, "This is a good sponsor. You must go and talk to him and do something. " I'm waiting for someone to take action, expecting an accident or something. John Dunbar insisted that she say hello to me, a millionaire, and then she came over and gave me a little card that said "Breathe", which was one of her instructions, so I started … (gasping desperately). That's how we met.

Later, I left. The second time I saw her was in the gallery of the opening ceremony of Claes Oldenburg Art Exhibition in London. We were shy and just nodded to each other. We don't know-she was standing behind me, and I looked away on purpose, because I was shy when I got along with people, especially when there were girls present. We just smiled at each other at the cocktail party and froze.

The next time she came to me, she was looking for sponsorship for the show she was doing-just like all fucking underground artists. She gave me a copy of her book Grapefruit, which I often pick up and read. Occasionally reading what is written in it will make you feel bored, such as "painting until you die suddenly" or "bleeding"; But sometimes I feel inspired. From her works, I also realized the changes that people have experienced in her works-occasionally I put it on the bedside and open it to read. It talks about some good things, which I think is quite good: sometimes when it comes to some heavy things, I don't like it very much. It's all like this. Then she came to me to sponsor the performance, which was "Half Wind Show". I gave her the sponsorship fee for this performance-in an art gallery called Lisong and another underground place. Everything in the whole exhibition was cut in half: half a bed, half a room, all half. They are all beautifully cut in half and painted white. I asked her, "Why don't you sell the other half in a bottle?" She immediately understood what kind of game it was, and she really did it-before we got engaged-and we still kept the bottle for the exhibition. This is my first time to participate in this kind of thing, and this work is presented in the form of "Yoko plus me"-it was our first public cooperation, and I didn't even go to the exhibition. I'm so nervous.

Yang: When did you realize that you were in love with her?

John: At first, the thing was this: I would read her book, but I didn't know what happened to me. Later, she did something called "Dance Event". Every day, all kinds of cards came in from my door, which read "Breathe", "Dance" and "Watch all the lights until dawn" (. I'm tired of this intellectual stuff and the whole fucking avant-garde art, sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't like it. Later, after Maharishi and I went to India, we kept in touch. The content of the letter is still very serious, but there is already some ambiguous space in it. As I said, I almost took her to India, but I'm not sure for what reason. I was still deceiving myself, saying that it was for some artistic reason, that reason.

After coming back from India, we chatted on the phone. I invited her over. It was midnight, and 90 was away, so I thought, "Well, if I want to get to know her better, it's time." She came to my house, and I didn't know what to do, so we went upstairs to my recording studio, and then I played her my own tapes, all kinds of crazy and strange things, some of which were comedies and some were electronic music. Few people can let me play tapes for them. Of course she was moved and said, "Hey, let's make something ourselves." So we recorded two virgins (3 1). When we started recording two virgins, it was already midnight. It was already dawn when we finished recording. So we have sex at dawn. It's really beautiful.