"Be My Yoko Ono"
Single by Barenaked Ladies
from the album The Yellow Tape, Gordon
Released	1991, 1992
Format	CD, cassette (US) CD, 12“ (UK)
Recorded	1991
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	2:45
Label	Page Publications, Reprise Records (US), Cheree Records (UK)
Producer(s)	Barenaked Ladies, Scott Dibble, Everett Ravestein
Chart positions
#48 (CFTR Top Hits of 1992)
Barenaked Ladies singles chronology
‘’N/A’’	‘’Be My Yoko Ono‘’ (1991)	‘’Lovers in a Dangerous Time’’ (1991)
"What a Good Boy" (1992)	‘’Be My Yoko Ono‘’ (1992)	"Fight the Power" (1993)

"Be My Yoko Ono" is a song by the Canadian musical group Barenaked Ladies. In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less*) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides, usually remixes or other songs. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Barenaked Ladies (more commonly known as The Yellow Tape) is the Barenaked Ladies third indie tape release, after Buck Naked in 1989 with just Ed Robertson and Steven Page, then Barenaked Lunch (also known as the Pink Tape) in 1990, with bassist Jim Creeggan and percussionist Andy Creeggan. ... An earlier version of the album cover, used from approximately 1992-1996 Gordon was the debut CD and first major-label album by Barenaked Ladies. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc. ... Insert from the Winter cassette single by Tori Amos The cassette single was a music recording format that debuted in the 80s. ... A CD single is a music single in the form of a compact disc. ... The 12-inch [30 cm] single gramophone record gained popularity with the advent of disco music in the 1970s. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Scott Dibble is a Canadian songwriter, musician and record producer. ... Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ... CFTR, broadcasting under the brand 680 News, is an all-news radio station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which broadcasts live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 680 kHz on the AM dial. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Fight the Power was a 1989 song by Public Enemy. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ...

The song was written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson and first appeared on their 1989 demo tape, Buck Naked. It later appeared on their second and third tapes, Barenaked Lunch and The Yellow Tape, on their major-label debut Gordon, and on their 2001 compilation, Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001. Steven Page, 2005 Steven Jay Page, often called Steve (born June 22, 1970), is a Canadian musician. ... Ed Robertson (full name Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson) is a lead singer and songwriter of Barenaked Ladies. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Buck Naked was the Barenaked Ladies first indie tape release, with just Ed Robertson and Steven Page. ... Barenaked Lunch is the Barenaked Ladies second indie tape release, which came after Buck Naked in 1989 and before the Yellow Tape in 1991. ... Barenaked Ladies (more commonly known as The Yellow Tape) is the Barenaked Ladies third indie tape release, after Buck Naked in 1989 with just Ed Robertson and Steven Page, then Barenaked Lunch (also known as the Pink Tape) in 1990, with bassist Jim Creeggan and percussionist Andy Creeggan. ... An earlier version of the album cover, used from approximately 1992-1996 Gordon was the debut CD and first major-label album by Barenaked Ladies. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Disc One is the seventh album by Barenaked Ladies. ...

In the song the narrator says that he would be willing to give up everything to be with the person he loves by comparing their relationship to the one between Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Yoko Ono in 2005 Yoko Ono Lennon (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese-American musician and artist who has lived most of her life in the United States. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an iconic 20th century singer-songwriter, with Paul McCartney in the Lennon-McCartney popular music throughout the 1960s, and founding member of The Beatles. ...

In 1991, the band entered the song in CFNY-FM’s annual “Discovery to Disc” contest. When the station asked Steven Page for the master tape, he “didn’t have the heart” to tell them that they already had it: a cassette that they had recorded in his basement. He told them that they would have it by next week, and submitted a studio re-recording of the song within the week. This version of the song would later end up on The Yellow Tape, which managed to achieve platinum status in Canada. The song won the band the grand prize of $100,000 to make a full-length CD, which, in their case, was 1992’s ‘’Gordon’’. CFNY-FM is a Canadian radio station. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Andy, Jim, Steve, and Ed in the Yoko Ono video

The song was also the band's first "video"; in 1990, the band squeezed into Citytv's Speaker's Corner booth (which allows anyone to film a two-minute movie of themselves for one dollar) and performed a shortened version of "Be My Yoko Ono," with the introduction "Hi! We're Barenaked Ladies, and we're a little too cheap to make our own video." The clip, which was re-aired extensively, greatly popularized the band across Canada. Later, in 1993, a professional video, directed by Larry Jordan, was made. It features the band playing in a dark room and imitating many of Yoko Ono's avant-garde performance art pieces, including "Cut Piece" in which audience members used scissors to cut off her clothing until she was completely naked. The video is also interspersed with various film clips of Yoko and John, which she sent to the band herself after her son, Sean Lennon, (after seeing the band perform) brought her a tape of the song. Andy Creeggan is the former keyboard and percussion player for the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies, as well as a member of the trio The Brothers Creeggan, and a solo artist with two albums to his credit. ... Jim Creegan is the bass player for Canadian band Barenaked Ladies. ... Steven Page, 2005 Steven Jay Page, often called Steve (born June 22, 1970), is a Canadian musician. ... Ed Robertson (full name Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson) is a lead singer and songwriter of Barenaked Ladies. ... This article is about the year. ... Citytv is a system of five English language television stations in Canada, owned by the CHUM Limited group. ... Speakers Corner is a television series which airs weekly on Citytv and A-Channel stations in Canada, featuring numerous short segments on a variety of topics as recorded by members of the general public. ... Larry Jordan is a music video director who is known for directing many music videos and television specials/DVDS of Mariah Carey. ... Sean Lennon Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono (making Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon his half-siblings). ...