{"id":2210062,"date":"2025-12-23T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2210062"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:46:30","slug":"yoko-ono-has-slowed-down-a-lot-as-she-lives-out-her-late-years-in-update-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yoko-ono-has-slowed-down-a-lot-as-she-lives-out-her-late-years-in-update-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoko Ono has ‘slowed down a lot’ as she lives out her late years in update New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatle John Lennon, has continued to embrace her reclusive life while living out her late years in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s son, Sean Ono Lennon, said in a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning<\/a> that his mother is enjoying retirement in upstate New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s slowed down a lot, and she\u2019s retired,\u201d Sean told CBS\u2019 Anthony Mason. \u201cI see her half the year.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Japanese artist decided to step away from the public eye and live quietly on a 600-acre farm, according to a book written by David Sheff entitled \u201cYoko: A Biography\u201d<\/a> that was published on March 25. <\/p>\n

The move has helped Ono focus living out her final days \u201cin a happy place\u201d following decades of activism, her family said in the book. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe believed she could change the world, and she did\u2026now she is able to be quiet \u2014 listen to the wind and watch the sky,” daughter Kyoko said in the book while paying tribute to her mother. \u201cThis is well deserved and genuine peacefulness.\u201d<\/p>\n

For decades, Ono lived in The Dakota, a historic apartment building on New York\u2019s Central Park West, in the home she shared with John Lennon. Lennon and Ono were married in 1969 and the two made headlines with their performance art and opposition to the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

Lennon was murdered by a disturbed fan on Dec. 8, 1980 outside The Dakota while returning from a late-night recording session. After his death, Ono founded the Strawberry Fields memorial in Manhattan\u2019s Central Park, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland and the now-closed John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan to honor late husband.<\/p>\n

Sean, who was five when his father died, explained how he\u2019s now taken over his mother\u2019s role of preserving the late Beatle\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m kind of trying to do the work she used to do,\u201d Sean said. \u201cI think she did a really great job for a lot of years. So she deserves to kind of sit back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just doing my best to help make sure that the younger generation doesn\u2019t forget about The Beatles and John and Yoko,\u201d Sean continued, mentioning how be believes it is possible for his father\u2019s legacy to be forgotten. \u201cThat\u2019s how I look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that he is most concerned about preserving his parents\u2019 ongoing mantra of peace and love. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that part of their legacy is incredibly important and something that I hope to convey to the younger generations,\u201d the musician said. <\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.masslive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatle John Lennon, has continued to embrace her reclusive life while living out her late years in the Northeast. The couple\u2019s son, Sean Ono Lennon, said in a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning that his mother is enjoying retirement in upstate New York. \u201cShe\u2019s slowed down a lot, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210063,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210062\/revisions\/2210063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}