Yoko Ono celebrated her 80th birthday on Sunday night [February 17th] by playing a one-off reunion gig with The Plastic Ono Band.
A host of special guests including Peaches, REM's Michael Stipe, Wilco's Nels Cline and Rufus Wainwright & Martha Wainwright joined her onstage at Berlin's Volksbühne.
The band was fronted by Ono alongside Sean Lennon, who deputized for his late father. The set list from the show was as follows:
01. It Happened 02. Waiting For The D Train 03. Between My Head And The Sky 04. Moving Mountains 05. Calling 06. There's No Goodbye 07. Walking On Thin Ice 08. Rising 09. Yes, I'm A Witch 10. Cheshire Cat 11. Mindtrain 12. Higa Noboru 13. Give Peace A Chance
A touring retrospective of Yoko Ono’s visual art opened in Frankfurt last week and is set to tour museums in Europe in 2013 and 2014. Reissues of Ono's 1968-1985 albums are due to come out this year.
Check out The Plastic Ono Band Live at The Royal Festival Hall, London, 14 June 2009:
