Twenty-three years on, and Yoko Ono has referenced the joke in her latest exhibition Yoko Ono: One More Story at the Reykjavik Art Museum.
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Despite Paul McCartney telling the world Yoko Ono “certainly didn’t break the group up, the group was breaking up,” the conceptual artist will likely forever be associated with the Beatles’ demise.
Another joke playing off the Beatles came later on when Barney starts dating a Japanese conceptual artist who looks a lot like Ono.