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Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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