Yoko Observes John's Anniversary in Disco

I guess Yoko Ono has really taken my pal Jill Brooke's book, Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life, a little too seriously.

Brooke offers somber advice to those who've lost loved ones and need to move on with their lives. She advises survivors not to dwell on the actual death, but to remember their loved ones in various ways.

Yoko must not have understood the book. I am told that on Saturday night, Dec. 8, at around 1 a.m. she appeared at the Roxy nightclub and disco on West 18th St. with a large posse of followers.

This would have been exactly — to the minute — 21 years after she stood in the entry of the Dakota apartment house and watched her husband, John Lennon, get shot to death by Mark David Chapman.

Was she lighting candles at home? No, Ono came to the Roxy to meet the Grammy-winning in-house deejay Peter Rauhofer. She wanted Rauhofer to remix tracks from her new CD, Blueprint for a Sunrise — his specialty. She brought along the CD, went into the deejay booth, and, according to the club manager on duty, had Rauhofer put the CD on.

Then she asked for an open mike. We were in shock. She was introduced, and started making these Yoko Ono-like noises over the microphone. It sounded like wailing and chanting, these orgasmic sounds and ecstatic moaning. People were flipping out.

The Roxy's owner told me Ono's singing was "like whaling mating calls."

But in the end Ono got what she wanted. Rauhofer is now busy remixing her tracks. He will have some job. One listen to the samples available at amazon.com makes for a harrowing experience at best.

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

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Maybe the military could use her CD to flush OBL outta his cave?

Better yet, just shove her down the cave and seal it up.

LOL

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

I've always thought that repeated loud playing of "Duke of Earl" might have some military potential. Worst song ever IMHO.

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001