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My quest to become a film editor began at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Had I chosen another profession I might not have made it a habit to always leave the house with my 35mm camera, lenses and plenty of film and my night hangout might not have been Max’s Kansas City where I hung with the art and music scene.  But even before that one beautiful Summer day I was sitting on a bench in Washington Square Park and in walked John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Yoko came over to me and asked me to walk with them and the three of us wound up walking to their limo where we sat and talked awhile about articles that had appeared in the newspapers about Yoko looking for her daughter, Kyoko that had touched me for my own personal reasons. Later I got a phone call telling me a messenger was coming to drop off a package from Yoko. It was her book, Grapefruit and their new record album, “Two Virgins”.  By chance later that Summer invited by David Peel, I found myself on stage at Madison Square Garden singing with the Plastic Ono Band. Later that year I was invited to Yoko’s recording session at the Record Plant and brought along my camera. That was the beginning of my love for photography. Drawn by a show depicting handicapped children in April 2008 I finally found the colleagues and the inspiration to put together a collection from thousands of my negatives to share with you. The benefit concert for Willowbrook Hospital in Staten Island NY exposed abuses of mentally ill and retarded children whom John Lennon and Yoko Ono championed.

It’s been 38 years and The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and Willie Nelson music is heard everywhere because their messages and melodies remain un-equaled. Yoko and Sean Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band are still rocking on!