STREAM MOONBEAMS RIGHT NOW AT THE GUARDIAN
At 80 years old, Yoko Ono – musician, artist, activist and curator of this year's Meltdown festival, which she opens tomorrow night at the Royal Festival Hall in London with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – still manages to surprise and enthrall. As well as a huge art retrospective in Frankfurt recently, Ono's continued spirit of adventure can be summed up by her last three musical endeavours. In 2012, she released YOKOKIMTHURSTON, which, as the title suggests, was a collaboration with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore; she then went on to release a remix album, Onomix, which featured a David Audé take on Hold Me that managed to top the Billboard dance charts. Only slightly more straightforward is her new single, Moonbeams – premiered here – which opens with a two-minute monologue about Earth's creation, hinging on the line: "People are planets, their souls are suns, orbiting the dancefloor of a cosmic club."