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"&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLady Gaga, Sonic Youth&amp;apos;s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Perry Farrell and the RZA were among the artists who joined Yoko Ono at her all-star &amp;quot;We Are Plastic Ono Band&amp;quot; concerts at Los Angeles&amp;apos; Orpheum Theatre this weekend. The concerts were part of a weeklong celebration leading up to what would have been John Lennon&amp;apos;s 70th birthday, on October 9th. Gaga performed with the Plastic Ono Band for three songs: She and Ono did a duet of Ono&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;The Sun is Down!&amp;quot; off Ono&amp;apos;s recent album, Between My Head and the Sky, then the 1992 track &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s Been Very Hard,&amp;quot; with Gaga rocking out on piano. Gaga and the rest of the night&amp;apos;s participants &amp;#x2014; including Sean Lennon, Harper Simon, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mike Watt and guitarist Nils Cline &amp;#x2014; joined together for a sing-along of the Lennon classic &amp;quot;Give Peace a Chance.&amp;quot;\r\nPhotos: We Are Plastic Ono Band with Yoko Ono, Lady Gaga, Iggy Pop and more\r\nGaga, who wore a see-through cat suit encrusted with crystals, updated the lyrics of &amp;quot;Give Peace a Chance&amp;quot; when it was her turn to solo, addressing her recent role in the fight to get &amp;quot;Don&amp;apos;t Ask, Don&amp;apos;t Tell&amp;quot; repealed by singing &amp;quot;Everybody&amp;apos;s talking about that defense bill, don&amp;apos;t ask don&amp;apos;t tell, every person&amp;apos;s sanctuary, gays in the military.&amp;quot; Other highlights from the Orpheum shows: RZA&amp;apos;s take on Ono&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City&amp;quot; and Iggy Pop&amp;apos;s high-powered performance.\r\nRelated Lennon&amp;apos;s Birthday Marked with Movies, Reissues, More\r\nIn February, Ono hosted another Plastic Ono all-star bash at Brooklyn&amp;apos;s Academy of Music, inviting Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Bette Midler, Gene Ween and Gordon and Moore from Sonic Youth.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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