Yoko Ono laughs when we suggest that we motivation Give Peace a Chance more now than when it was originally recorded in 1969.�
�Exactly,� she replies, the shortest answer she�ll give during our conversation, and leaves it at that. Perhaps this is reason sufficiency for the release of Give Peace a Chance (The Remixes), a digital collection of eight remixes of the Plastic Ono Band protestation anthem with Ono�s freshly recorded vocable vocals. Though the commingling of protest anthem and block rockin� beats crataegus laevigata seem incongruous to some, for Ono it�s a completely natural method to get the message to the mass.
�If you want to get through to individual, you go to their stomach with your soup,� she says. �(The remixes) are like soup. People hand in to their bodies; their bodies will know what�s important.��
Ono, 75, has led an unprecedented womb-to-tomb career as a ocular, conceptual and musical creative person of the avant-garde, a fact overshadowed by her marriage to John Lennon.
In the late �60s, Ono and Lennon spearheaded a number of peace rallies and bed-ins, the second of which, in 1969 in Montreal, produced the original recording of Give Peace a Chance.
Ono herself seems surprised by the song�s lasting wallop, not to mention the remix project�s recent topping of Billboard�s Hot Dance Club Play charts.
�We just did whatever we could and never looked back,� she says of her musical and activist collaborations with Lennon. �At the time, the bed-in was the most important matter we were doing.� �
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