YOKO LIVE CHAT - AT ABC.COM

ABC John Lennon Special/Yoko Chat

Yoko chatted live with fans on the ABCNews web site Wednesday December 6 from 2 until a little after 3 PM ET.

Up to nearly 600 people were sitting in and questions ranged from "how did you and John meet?" to questions about John's murderer.

IK! has been informed by ABC that the chat transcript and audio will be on their site over the next few days.

ABC's John Lennon webumentary is being updated with new pictures and more information. Keep checking in on that as well.

A few of Yoko's chat highlights:

Moderator:
Why do you think (John Lennon's) legacy is so enduring?

Yoko Ono at 2:10pm ET
The fact that he was very human and he was very honest about being human. He wasn't trying to show his best foot forward all the time. And people feel close to him because of that.

Lew:
Which of John's songs is your favorite?

Yoko Ono at 2:15pm ET
(laughing)Lew, your question is very difficult, because I love all of John's songs and many of them are beautiful artistically, too. I think a song that makes me feel okay is a fun song called "Oh, Yoko." That picks my spirit up. There are two songs that really make me still choke up. It's "Jealous Guy" and änother song called "I'm Losing You." For a pickup song I wanted to first say "Starting Over" but it's a very positive song which is talking about starting over and he passed away right after it so it's not really a pickup for me, and that's how likewise all the pickup songs I thought of have that kind of double feeling for me.

Moderator
Carmey Ground asks: "How do you think John would feel about all the success the Beatles are still having today with releases such as the Anthologies and Beatles 1. Do you think he would embrace being a part of it all or feel that people should get past the Beatles?"

Yoko Onoat 2:28pm ET
Carmey, John was the one who put the band together and who named the band The Beatles. He was the leader of the band. I'm sure if he's watching all this, he'd be saying "Whoopee." And the Beatles' success does not lessen John's individual work at all, naturally,of course. Both his works with the Beatles and his individual song writing were incredibly beautiful and powerful.

Moderator
Jay Silla asks: "Back in 1980, a DJ in Dallas suggested that an appropriate way to honor your late husband, would be to never mention the killer's name, never speak it aloud, so as to deny the killer the fame he sought. Would you support such a concept, and encourage the media to refrain from printing or speaking his name?"

Yoko Ono at 2:49pm ET
I feel very strange about the fact that the media gave him such a platform this year and interviewed him on several occasions, but I don't want to suggest anything because things will have to happen in a way that they happen, and if I try to change it sometimes it has the wrong effect. Let's say I'm just an observer feeling very strange about him getting a platform in the media and feeling the pain of the death.

Yoko Ono at 2:53pm ET
The fondest memory of John is of John at home with me, unlike the macho image that you know of John. At home he was a very gentle, caring husband, and that's what I remember dearly.

Visit the ABC Web Site to read the entire Chat and to check on the John Lennon Webumentary currently being updated with more information.