Joyanna Adams

Nobody Remembers Yoko and John

Quite a while back, I used to play piano and sing in various hotels. And one night, I remember vividly because I played this song for Yoko Ono.

It was around supper time, and the lounge was just off the main lobby. The bar that is. I was at the grand piano in the middle of a sunken floor, performing. John Lennon had died about six months before and Yoko was staying at the hotel to sell some of his artwork the next day at a local gallery. It was a Doubletree..pretty nice hotel.

Now, here’s the strange part. The bartendar yelled out at me and said “HEY..Yoko Ono is in the lobby!”

So I pulled out this song, and sang it, because I knew she could hear it. It so happens she was being interviewed on the radio in the lobby while I was playing this song. Good timing.

In about 20 minutes she walked way down all the way into the middle of the room, to me, and smiled and gave me a hundred dollar tip. She said, “That was so lovely…I really loved..you sang it so lovely.”

She had four great big body guards that came down with her, and she is pretty short. And looks JUST like her pictures. Of course, I was sort of stunned, but gracious.

But here’s what is REALLY strange, and I’ve thought about it often. I had the music to that song, and carried it around for a good 20 years, and never played it. Never. It wasn’t exactly a hit song. I just liked it.

It felt, as almost, John was sending a message to his lover through me. Is that crazy? I felt like it was when I was doing it. Like I was being channeled.

I was a big Beatle fan growing up, and I had met Paul McCartney in New York many years before when he was recording RAM.

Anyway, of course I was absolutely unbearable to the employees of the hotel that night: Going around saying “YOKO ONO GAVE ME A $100 tip!” Ha ha.

I had too much fun with it.

Clearly these two really loved each other.

And yes, if there is such a thing as a soul living after death…Then John used me to sing to her.

Later on, I read that his son Julian Lennon said his dad gave HIM a sign…a white feather.

His father said he would send him a white feather.

Lots of people have this kind of stuff happen to them, loved ones communicating with them after death, and it really is one of the great mysteries of the universe.

This video is bad, but shows the love they had for each.

May we all, in our lifetimes, have the deep love that these two had.

We could only hope.

January 26, 2024 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | Uncategorized | Art, Beatles, John Lennon, Music, Yoko Ono