Love Magic Power Danger Bliss by Paul Morley review – reappraising Yoko Ono

An vivid celebration of the once-maligned, now revered artist’s life and work John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as “the world’s most famous unknown artist. Everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” Others were more vicious, portraying her as a family wrecker (the family being the Beatles), a cultural vandal, an Asian virus, a shrieking harridan. As ventriloquised by Paul Morley in his appallingly titled Love Magic Power Danger Bliss, they saw her as someone whose “sole reas...

By Sukhdev Sandhu