Joyanna Adams

Nobody's Opinion

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 | Uncategorized | , , , , | Leave a comment

Nobody’s Fool: John Lennon

Nobody’s Fool

Sitting with my friends at the pool today, the subject was who was better…Elvis or the Beatles. One lady, who was older than I, thought the Beatles were too sisified. Elvis was more masculine. Well…being raised with the Beatles, I loved the music, so I just smiled and agreed. It’s just her opinion…mine would be different. My brother has a theory that everyone loves the music they loved in high school, and I think he is right. He should know, he’s got his own D.J. company…but sorry…off the subject here. What I wanted to talk about is this: John Lennon was no fool. Sure, at the end, he was on Nixon’s list of dangerous people, and no doubt did too many drugs for one lifetime, but let’s face it…he fell head over heels madly in love with Yoko Ono, and she was the love of his life. So, whether we liked it or not, we had to listen to Yoko scream, and she did affect the way he approached the public after the Beatles.  He made Yoko a star.

But he would have never even admitted that. (If you can’t see the video…go HERE.)

Yoko didn’t break up the Beatles. I think Paul got such a big head in the end, and was trying to make the Beatles “Paul’s” band, that the rest of them just got sick of it. You can see it all being played out in the film “Let It Be.” Yoko just became the scapegoat. If you have read many books, it was actually John’s genius who got the band up and running, and he was the leader for the ten years they worked in just clubs…and also was the main voice on all the beginning albums. Paul’s words at the induction of John Lennon to the Rock and Road Hall of Fame, were nothing short of..silly. He did not say ONE good thing about John’s talent…just how John had been there when they got to meet Elvis and the Supremes. I’m glad John didn’t hear it.

John was the heavier thinker of the group, and in the sixties, he was trying very hard to “give peace a chance.” Most conservatives think John was a big “lefty” but listen to the first five minutes of this. His thinking was much like our founding fathers…and I believe by the time he died, one of his friends said he did like Ronald Reagan, and was very much a conservative, and I believe him.

Sure…lying naked in bed was not exactly a great way to get people to think “Peace” but then again…John was just trying his best to bring, in his own way…sometthing good to the world. What else could he do? He was really, one of the most famous people in the world. At one time the Beatles actually WERE more popular than Jesus. John was right.

It was just a fact, and how they crucified him for it.

In my younger years I liked Paul, the “cute” Beatles, but now, I’m older and wiser. If I had a chance to talk to any of them…I would have ask to talk to John.

He really was…a genuis. (Okay, I’m a bit bias…but that’s just my Nobody Opinion. 🙂

August 9, 2012 Posted by | music, Uncategorized | , , , | Leave a comment