The concert was part of the ‘Starpeace World Tour’, which included a total of 25 concerts. Yoko and the band arrived from Stockholm, and after the concert they stayed overnight at Hotel Kong Frederik, after which they went on to Hamburg.

- Lars Schwander

The music started already before Yoko Ono made her entrance. “I want to tell a story,” she said. “It begins in 1980 in New York.” As a stewardess on board a plane, she presents her concert tour, “Starpeace Tour 1986.” We immediately get a glimpse of the time when she was still with John Lennon, who (as we all know) was shot in 1980. Ono still wears her dark glasses, as if to protect herself, to appear stronger. She stands there, shy in the spotlight. There she is, carrying her heavy legacy from Lennon. And that is a legacy to undertake, both on behalf of herself and others.

In the wake of Lennon's murder, the myth of Ono drastically changed. For a time, at least. She became the center of attention while millions of people mourned the loss of Lennon. The Beatles’ remaining bandmembers were finally ready to accept her. After three solo albums and an LP where people interpreted her songs, Ono released her most welcoming LP to date, "Starpeace". Her message is the counterpart to President Reagan's "Starwar". The record was produced by Material's Bill Laswell, a trendsetter who, among others, produced Mick Jagger and the Jamaican duo, Sly and Robbie. It would have been a very danceable record with solid pop music if it weren't for this tone of fear, vibrating underneath the music. A delicate tone, a sound of sorrow. The myth of Ono is still difficult to pigeonhole.

After her signature song, “Midsummer New York” and the new songs, “Give me Something” and “Kiss Kiss Kiss”, she plays “It happened” ... that is the term she always uses to describe the murder. And suddenly we are sitting here at the concert face to face with the myth. Face to face with Ono. Her name that hit us for the first time in the mid-1960s, when Lennon, amidst the peak of his career, met this Japanese artist, poet and musician. She quickly became a permanent part of her husband’s oeuvre, and also an additional member of the Beatles. That inspired hatred towards Ono, partly because many believed that she was the main course of the band splitting up, and partly because people in general were not enthusiastic about her so called screaming. Many deemed it hysterical, dreadful and untalented.

The album received much acclaim from Lars Villemoes in the newspaper “Information”: "... Music with an active and industrious, but never hurried pulse. A wonderfully soft synthetic soundtrack for a boat trip under vast tropical skies. Calm and professional post-reggae 'Naïve art' with charm, warmth and colour in the sound." Unfortunately, this concert’s backing band was not the same as the one on the album, which Lars Villemoes also noted in his unflattering review under the heading: "Yoko Ono's Talk-show - Peace education with musical accompaniment." It said, among other things: "In any case, large parts of the concert took the form of spoken addresses to the audience. In the first half as monologues about Ono and her son Sean's situation after Lennon's death, followed by songs written by the widow Ono, in the second half as an Advent-like peace lecture with rhetorical questions to the audience, a musically diverting argument for the reasonableness of that mission of peace ...".

However, "Starpeace" also carries a bright message for those who care to listen. A shadow hangs over Ono, but instead of burying herself in memories, she keeps on fighting and lifts herself up towards the sky. Up to the stars, from where she sings "I love you, Earth" in a simple and naive song. Ono is someone who fights in two directions: One is the direction of death, sorrow and pain. But at the same time also the direction of hope and joy. There are two paths that still fight to gain the upper hand. She is standing there with her dark glasses. "Death made me strong", she said. But shouldn't it also be that way under these circumstances? Here, more than 5 years after the shock of the loss of Lennon, hope lies ahead. At the concert, she tells parts of this entire story. She takes long breaks between songs. "I love you", she shouts. "There is a very important reason why I love you. We are together. I know you and you know me - I am you and you are me. We share the same time". She still brings her message of peace.

Ono honestly tells how she has felt the pain; how she always feared for the lives of her husband and child. She is appalled by the press's accusations, by being the center of this "game". While the orchestra begins to play - she falls in. More pop than we usually get from her. Ono still stands shyly in the bright spotlight and sings "Sky People", with a chorus that could place her on the charts. The encores were "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance". We know the songs, as we know the time way back when. But Ono stands there with her dark glasses and her perhaps naive hopes. Maybe too vulnerable? Some people in the audience stood up and started dancing. And Lars Villemoes ends his review with the words: "Symptomatic of the whole process was that Ono received the greatest applause for the closing Lennon song Imagine and for the equally well-known Give Peace A Chance. Ono also promised to visit again and if she keeps her promise, one can only hope that by that time she will be accompanied by a more competent band and have shelved the Lennon tragedy so that she will let her music speak for itself. It is indeed worth it.