Establishment critics dismissed Yoko Ono’s avant-garde music as unserious.

Evidence

Jazz critic Don Heckman’s New York Times appraisal of the Beatles’ post-Beatles LPs, dismissed Ono’s album in a one-sentence paragraph: “Yoko Ono’s music consists almost entirely of wailing vocal sounds accompanied by frenzied, but essentially rather simple-minded backup rhythms. A little of it goes a long way. Too long.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1645

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• SHARE: Would amuse anyone into avant-garde music or Beatles trivia; the one-sentence dismissal is a perfect archival nugget.