A-Alfred Biolek/Y-Yoko

A: Perhaps you've read it in the newspaper and I can really say I'm especially delighted to have her here today. This is a guest you don't get everyday - here's Yoko Ono!

(As Yoko walked in, they played the beginning of "You and I")

A: Hello, Yoko.

Y: Hello!

Y: Mensch Meier - I remember the expression.

A: Yoko, before we sit down, when have you been here before in Germany?

Y: I went to Hamburg in 1982, I think.

A: So it's not so long..but in television, you haven't been in German t.v. before?

Y: No, no never.

A: You are going to make a tour as a pop singer which is very unusual because you were known as the wife of a pop singer, but you did more experimental art.

Y: That's true, but I thought that for peace you have to speak a language that people understand and that's why I came here.

A: And the fact that you're doing a very popular - almost commercial music, do you think people will say, "She's an artist, why does she do such music?"

Y: Well, I hope not. I hope people will enjoy the show. I'd like to say "hello, hello" to the German audience 'cause that's very nice, I hope! (Applause)

A: Yoko, you know you always had to fight against prejudices because so many journalists in all the medias thought you were the one who broke up the Beatles.

Y: I've scattered them, people say; I broke them up. I've brought a Beatle with me today because you always talk about the Beatles and I'm always asked, "are you alone, or have you come with John?" so I brought a Beatle with me. (She wore a beetle broach on her jacket)

A: You had a hard time because you became the wife of a very famous person. Do you think it is more difficult to do a rock show if you are a woman?

Y: I don't think so. I think there are many women rockers these days and they're doing quite well. So it's all right you know.

A: You've fought for the rights of women. Do you think that women have a better position nowadays than they used to have?

Y: Oh yes, and of course, I fought for it too and John fought for it. John, I think, is the first man who has written a feminist song for the world. I've said he was the first, but I haven't heard of the second, so maybe he's the only one. He was a feminist. (Applause)

(About the stops on the tour)

Y: I'm trying to make a point of going to East Europe as well because I'm thinking it's very important that we communicate and know in our hearts that we're all people and that we belong together. (Applause)

A: There's one line in "Hell In Paradise" that I'd like to ask you about. "It's Adam's ball/Eve's call."

Y: Yes, all right, you want to mention that. Adam's ball is a dance party. It's Adam's party and he's giving it. Eve's call, I think, means that women are speaking to their children and for them and for the future generations and trying to make a peaceful world together. No more war! (Applause)

A: Thank you, Yoko!