In popular rocklore, Yoko Ono was unfairly cast as that Japanese woman who broke The Beatles apart, a myth immortalized in the Barenaked Ladies' 1992 hit, Be My Yoko Ono.
As an academic counterpoint to that myth, Massachusetts singer-songwriter Dar Williams offered up I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono, a pleasant folk-based track off her latest effort, The Green Room, in defence of Ono's merits as a groundbreaking avant-garde artist who faced a wrath of public outcry after her union with John Lennon.
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