Overall Thoughts on Power to the People

[Madeline Bocaro]

Thank you for contributing, Madeline, welcome back!
Your generous sharing of your top-notch writing is always appreciated.

Your Yoko book has been a blessing which enhances my understanding & appreciation of her work.
It's on the shelf in the midst of my John & Yoko box sets.

Hope you're able to arrange a visit to Chicago to see Yoko's art exhibit now it's opened.


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Thank you for your kind words! Especially about my book. An expanded ebook is available now at :
Bookbaby Bookshop.
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/in-your-mind-the-infinite-universe-of-yoko-ono1?format=ebook
I am working another book - exclusively about Yoko's music (Listen... The Musical Universe of Yoko Ono. I am in the process of interviewing many of her colleagues. I hope you will enjoy that one as well! All the best, Madeline x

 

[JaneSmith]

Thank you for your kind words! Especially about my book. An expanded ebook is available now at :
Bookbaby Bookshop.
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/in-your-mind-the-infinite-universe-of-yoko-ono1?format=ebook
I am working another book - exclusively about Yoko's music (Listen... The Musical Universe of Yoko Ono. I am in the process of interviewing many of her colleagues. I hope you will enjoy that one as well! All the best, Madeline x

How exciting, I think it will be wonderful, I'm already dying to see it and read it, how many things we will see there

 

[ecclesofficial]

I am working another book - exclusively about Yoko's music

This is the best news! Absolutely cannot wait for this. Best of luck with the interviews and the writing process!

 

[Madeline Bocaro]

This is the best news! Absolutely cannot wait for this. Best of luck with the interviews and the writing process!

Thanks so much!

 

[NowhereMan]

I liked the live mixes. I listen to them a lot while walking through trees in the breeze, and it feels great. Although I missed the flute and piano in The Luck of the Irish and the saxophone in Sunday Bloody Sunday, I think the remixes of Some Time In New York have their own unique feel, I really liked these more laid-back and raw versions. On Sunday Bloody Sunday in particular, I think this version without the saxophone sounds much rawer and gives the song a more protest feel, which fits in very well.

 

[JoBeatles]

Thank you for your kind words! Especially about my book. An expanded ebook is available now at :
Bookbaby Bookshop.
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/in-your-mind-the-infinite-universe-of-yoko-ono1?format=ebook
I am working another book - exclusively about Yoko's music (Listen... The Musical Universe of Yoko Ono. I am in the process of interviewing many of her colleagues. I hope you will enjoy that one as well! All the best, Madeline x

Can't wait for the next book! The first one is excellent (it has a special place on my bookshelf!).

 

[Madeline Bocaro]

Can't wait for the next book! The first one is excellent (it has a special place on my bookshelf!).

Thanks so much! So happy that you enjoyed it! Madeline x

 

[JaneSmith]

Thank you for your kind words! Especially about my book. An expanded ebook is available now at :
Bookbaby Bookshop.
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/in-your-mind-the-infinite-universe-of-yoko-ono1?format=ebook
I am working another book - exclusively about Yoko's music (Listen... The Musical Universe of Yoko Ono. I am in the process of interviewing many of her colleagues. I hope you will enjoy that one as well! All the best, Madeline x

I definitely have to read this one, The first one fascinated me! How beautiful everything was, you're my favorite writer

 

[Madeline Bocaro]

I definitely have to read this one, The first one fascinated me! How beautiful everything was, you're my favorite writer

Thanks so much Jane! It was easy to write a beautiful story about Yoko! I really appreciate your comment. Madeline x

 

[JPGR1964]

I’m still curious why the ultimate mix of John Sinclair changed the line from “selling dope and making hay” to “making dope and making hay”. Other then the extended outro, it seems like the same take of the song so why the change? I think the original line flows better and makes more sense, and didn’t notice any mention of it in the book.

 

[LetTheFourWindsBlow]

I’m still curious why the ultimate mix of John Sinclair changed the line from “selling dope and making hay” to “making dope and making hay”. Other then the extended outro, it seems like the same take of the song so why the change? I think the original line flows better and makes more sense, and didn’t notice any mention of it in the book.

Also takes the narrator of the song and frames them as the manufacturer of the dope rather than simply just the seller.

 

[JPGR1964]

Also takes the narrator of the song and frames them as the manufacturer of the dope rather than simply just the seller.

that’s true too, which changes the meaning of the song as well. And makes the decision more baffling

 

[JPGR1964]

Also takes the narrator of the song and frames them as the manufacturer of the dope rather than simply just the seller.

the only thing I can think of is that maybe John flubbed that line on the original master take and the correct lyric was flown in, and the Ultimate mix used the original extended unedited master. But even if that’s the case I would think the book would have mentioned it.