“Imagine all the people living life in peace.” So read an anonymous full-page advertisement in Sunday’s New York Times. The unknown sponsor behind the message came forward on Tuesday – it was John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono.
Yoko’s spokesman Eliot Mintz confirmed that the 68-year-old former peace activist had placed the quotation from her husband’s song Imagine in the newspaper following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US. The lyrics appeared without additional text or photos.
“This is one of the ways she makes her feelings known,” said Mintz. “The message is in the ad.” He went on to explain that Yoko decided not to sign it because “she felt it would be more effective if her name wasn’t on it.”
Yoko is now planning to place another of her late husband’s lyrics on a Times Square billboard. This time the message will read: “Give peace a chance”.
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