“Regarding Beatles Box, it’s a very personal, reverential accumulation of contained imagery, compressing the immense inspiration and consistency with which the Beatles music had become a part of my world, and the enveloping culture. The box was a strange sort of magic -- such a huge cultural presence captured in this small container. My largest radical kinetic theater work was created in London for the Round House Dialectics of Liberation (1967). A final sequence of collapsed bodies within the arrival of a horse-drawn cart and fractured recorded texts of the macho speeches was contained within the sound of the Beatles lyrics “I read the news today... oh boy....about a lucky man who made the grade” (one of the most melancholy compositions).”
“A London Addenda: when I was in London in 1967 I was completely broke and needing to borrow a few pounds from a friend.....someone suggested I contact Yoko Ono, my friend from New York City who was also just then in London. I was able to reach her by phone and I said “This is very awkward but I’m asking a few friends if they can help me out temporarily.” Yoko sounded excited: “I would love to be of help but I’m completely dazed and overwhelmed with these guys in a band, and I think I’m falling in love with one of them.”"
- Carolee Schneemann, 2018