Yoko Ono has launched a ‘want tree’ web site to mark her ninetieth birthday.
Yoko turns 90 on February 18 and to have fun, her son, Sean Ono Lennon has made a digital ‘Want Tree’ the place individuals everywhere in the world can publish their needs on-line and (in affiliation with One Tree Planted) plant actual timber in Yoko’s honour.
Yoko first got here up with the concept of ‘Want Timber’ in 1996 and since its inception, Yoko has collected almost two million needs from greater than 200 bodily installations of the Want Tree in over 35 nations.
The brand new web site, which you’ll be able to view right here, now permits digital needs to be posted on-line on an interactive Want Tree.
In her authentic instruction for the Want Tree Yoko wrote:
Make a want
Write it down on a bit of paper
Fold it and tie it round a department of a Want Tree.
Ask your good friend to do the identical.
Maintain Wishing
Till the branches are coated with needs
In the meantime, a brand new documentary is about to revisit the one week in 1972 when John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted The Mike Douglas Present.
Titled Daytime Revolution, the documentary was authorised by Ono’s son Sean, and can embrace archival footage from every of the 5 episodes co-hosted by the well-known couple in 1972.
Daytime Revolution was directed by Erik Nelson, and can characteristic interviews with surviving company who had been interviewed by Lennon and Ono on The Mike Douglas Present, in addition to behind-the-scenes tales of the pair’s week-long stint.
Throughout their five-episode run on The Mike Douglas Present, Lennon and Ono mentioned then-controversial matters like environmental conservation and police brutality, and interviewed activists like Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale, and lecturer and lawyer Ralph Nader.
A launch date for Daytime Revolution has not but been introduced. It can observe a string of Lennon-focussed documentaries to be launched in recent times, together with Lennon’s Final Weekend in 2020 and the re-release of 24 Hours: The World Of John And Yoko in 2021.
Lennon was additionally the topic – alongside his Beatles bandmates – of the 2021 documentary The Beatles: Get Again, which his son Julian Lennon stated “made me love my father once more”.
