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Yoko Ono, from pariah to paragon: Why 75 women are paying tribute to her legacy at Disney Hall

LOS ANGELES - Yes.

That was the word Yoko Ono painted on the ceiling of the Indica Gallery in London in 1966. Visitors to the space were invited to climb a ladder and look at the letters through a magnifying glass. One such guest was John Lennon. The rest is history.

A positive affirmation may have ignited one of rock music's most famous love stories but negativity dragged it down. Ono was villainized as the woman who destroyed the Beatles. Fifty-three years later, a new generation of women is looking at the way Ono was treated in a new light. They see her as an artistic hero: a

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