John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band or Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band?

Oh I misread and thought the other was a couple years not months earlier

Ritchie Yorke turns up in Marcus's column today, and also in Revival69--at one point, he was instrumental in saving the whole show. Made me laugh, because Yorke became a running punchline for a friend and I who both remembered his book Axes, Chops & Hot Licks, a look at Canadian pop in the early '70s. It was one of the few rock-related books that might be in your school library in the mid-'70s, at least if you were Canadian. (Yorke was Australian, but he moved to Canada and wrote for the Globe and the Telegram.) I don't know if either of us had even read him--I have a copy of Axes I bought later--but based on his 10-favourite list in the first Paul Gambaccini Top 200 book, we decided he was a good stand-in for a certain kind of '70s rock critic, best described, maybe, by the joke in Annie Hall about achieving "total heavy-osity." Very unfair, no doubt. He died five years ago.

He was included in the list of "10 Worst Rock Critics" that Marcus wrote for the Book of Rock Lists in 1980, I can't imagine that the passage of time has made him more beloved.

I'm sure that was part of us seizing on him in particular.