Marrying John Lennon brought Yoko Ono a dizzying degree of reflected fame. But her life story is nervy, compelling and shockingly sad both with and without him. David Sheff’s new biography “Yoko” (Simon & Schuster,

John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono reportedly overheard the Beatles singer getting intimate iwth another woman at a party - and she was left 'severely embarrassed'

David Sheff occupies a rare perch as a journalist in the story of the multidisciplinary avant-garde artist Yoko Ono and her late husband John Lennon: He spent weeks interviewing the couple for Playboy shortly before Lennon’s death in 1980.