Photos: Yoko Ono doing "Voice Piece for Soprano"

In December 2015 I was "privileged" to have a front row space at a Yoko Ono performance at the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. Yoko was in town to open a show of her art, but couldn't resist grabbing a microphone and treating us all to a spine-tingling rendition of "Voice Piece for Soprano (to Simone Morris)" which simply includes three instructions: "Scream (1) against the wind, (2) against the wall, (3) against the sky."

Not exactly "Sgt. Pepper's" but still a perceptible link with the "Fab Four" (plus one).

"Is this thing switched on?"

"ayayayayaayayayaya"

"ulululululululululul"

Job done!

Hit the spot!

Colin Liddell
Revenge of Riff Raff
5th May, 2024

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!