I heard Yoko Ono as a guest on Radio Four's Desert Island Discs this morning. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the programme, it's a nice twee sort of thing where a guest gets to choose and play some favourite songs which they wouldn't want to be without if they were to be sent to a hypothetical desert island.
In the introduction, the presenter said that Yoko One had long been reviled for having wrecked the Beatles, and taking away John Lennon from these shores, and for generally being a bit of a cow. I don't know. I don't much care for her 'art', and she always seems very supercillious but that in itself is no crime.
The presenter also said that Paul McCartney had recently declared that he'd changed his mind about her. Whereas he was once regarded her as a very cold sort of woman he now thought she was probably all right. He had added that perhaps it was just that unlike most other people she was more determined to be herself.
That last bit interested me. There must be a fine line between knowing your own mind and having little doubt about what you want out of life and how to get it, and being thought of as absolutely selfish and uncaring. Is there a point where one merges into the other?
Self-assuredness and a take-charge attitude will often scare off lesser mortals with all of their fears and doubts and many insecurities (that's you and me, perhaps?).
I will never be a 'fan' of Yoko Ono, but this intriguing description of her by Paul McCartney certainly made me think.
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