Yoko Ono was once a successful, internationally emerging Japanese artist. This she gave up when in the 1960spresented herself and, until his death in 1980, she became his inseparable wife. It made her a maligned famous wife who, according to angry tongues, alienated her husband from the Beatles. But she was also his muse who stimulated him to his best, more daring and candid songs. On her album
… Warzone, Ono shows that she has her heart in the right place. In moody electro-acoustic songs and sometimes almost neo-classical pieces, she fights war violence and oppression and praises feminine powers and positive self-love. Ono's problem remains that she is a completely talentless singer. She cannot keep a tone, has no volume and murmurs like a Japanese child who has just had her first English lessons. Without Lennon, she would never have started singing and would undoubtedly have conveyed her powerful message as an artist more attractively. (MR)more
