Oh, Yoko! Part 1

Unveiling the Legends: Dolls of the 60s & 70s

“The average rating of our podcast is too high,” we lamented. “Let’s incite a mob of one-star reviews just for covering Yoko Ono!” We giggled, as we rubbed our little hands together like flies.

Season 2 of the Dolls Pod is going down screaming, or whatever you call those distinct vocal stylings. The fifth episode of our Beatle Girl miniseries is here, focusing primarily on Yoko Ono’s life and art before meeting “JOOOOOHN!”

If you hate Yoko, you will hate this episode. If you love Yoko, you will hate this episode. “Oh, Yoko!” is available now, wherever you stream your podcasts 🌊

(Episode starts at 4:58)

Sources used for this episode:

David Sheff, “Yoko” (2025)

Jann Wenner, “Lennon Remembers” (2000)

David Sheff, “The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono” (edited by G. Barry Golson, 1981)

Cynthia Lennon, “John” (2005)

May Pang with Henry Edwards, “Loving John” (1983)

The Beatles, “Anthology” (2000)

Alan Clayson, Barb Jungr, and Robb Johnson, “Woman: The Incredible Life of Yoko Ono” (2004)

J. Hoberman, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde - Primal Happenings, Underground Moves, Radical Pop” (2025)

Elvis Mitchell, “Yoko Ono” Interview Magazine, 11/26/2013

Lisa Carver, “Yoko Ono: A Reconsideration” The New York Times, 10/19/2012

“One To One: John & Yoko” (dir. Kevin MacDonald and Sam Rice-Edwards, 2025)

Songs in this episode:

Miles Davis Quintet - “Nature Boy” (1955)

The Beatles - “Tomorrow Never Knows” (1966)The Beatles - “Julia” (1968)

John Lennon & Yoko Ono - “Two Virgins Side One” (1968)

Rainbo (Sissy Spacek) - “John, You Went Too Far This Time” (1969)

The Beatles - “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” (1968)

The Beatles - “Revolution 9” (1968)

The Beatles - “Don’t Let Me Down” (Take 1/Rooftop Performance, 1/30/1969)

The Beatles - “The Ballad of John and Yoko” (1968)

with samples from “Get Back” (dir. Peter Jackson, 2021)

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