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Get your tickets for Yoko’s May 15 show at the Regattabar! “One of my favorite Yoko Miwa performances,” says our webmaster, Jason Crane, “is this recording of Yoko playing Neil Young’s ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart.’ This song, from Neil’s 1970 masterpiece After The Gold Rush, is deceptively simple. A lilting melody that repeats…
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  On the second episode of the Yoko Miwa Show, Yoko talks about her college years in Osaka, Japan, and the movie that introduced her to jazz.  

In my opinion, “My Funny Valentine” ranks up there with “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and Extreme’s “More Than Words” as one of the creepier, more disturbing songs ever written. I’ll tell you why in a moment, but first here’s Yoko playing “My Funny Valentine” with vocalist Rebecca Paris: The song was written in 1937 by…
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