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Jun 18, 2022 · Sean Ono Lennon marked Paul McCartney ’s 80th birthday Saturday with a tender, acoustic rendition of the Beatles ’ “Here, There and Everywhere.”. “A little birdy told me this was one of ...
- “Cold Turkey”
- “Isolation”
- “God”
- “Gimme Some Truth”
- “How Do You Sleep?”
- “Mind Games”
- “#9 Dream”
- “Steel and Glass”
- “I’m Losing You”
- “Watching The Wheels”
This song is so important because it’s [John’s] first solo song. I know he submitted it as a possible song forLet It Be, and for whatever reason that didn’t work out. I can imagine why [laughs]. It was a pretty edgy lyric, even for the Beatles. But the reason I really feel like this song has been an anchor for the whole project, the Gimme Some Trut...
Honestly, I thought I always knew the lyrics. It’s a simple song. I grew up listening to it, but I couldn’t believe how spot-on the lyrics were. I mean, it literally could be a song that was written about quarantine. I always knew it was about feeling isolated as John and Yoko and that people don’t realize how insecure he is. They think that he’s l...
I think “God” summarizes the best aspects of that album, because it’s not a normal song. There’s no chorus. He says this line that’s really interesting. I don’t know where it came from; I have no idea even what it means still: “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” He repeats it, and then he just goes into this repetitive mantra of, like,...
The thing that’s remarkable to me about Imagine is, it’s really hard for me to take when rock stars try to lecture me about politics or how I should think about things philosophically. I’m not against it, but it’s just really hard to take. It’s really hard to not just feel like, “Come on. Shut up.” And somehow my dad pulls it off with “Imagine,” th...
When I interviewed Paul, obviously I didn’t bring up that song. I don’t want to offend him, it’s as simple as that. A funny story is that one of the first times I ever got to hang out with Paul when I was young — I think I was 12 or 13 — one of the first times I ever actually spoke to him for more than just a hi or a handshake … I was very precocio...
Mind Gamesis such a good album, and it’s such a good song. It’s interesting because it’s almost like my dad is getting more pop again. There’s something in “Mind Games” that’s more Beatle-esque, I think, than anything he had done so far in the solo work. It has this kind of descending Bach bass line, but it doesn’t sound like the Beatles either. To...
I think Walls and Bridgesmight be one of my dad’s lesser-known solo albums. Maybe because “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” was a hit at the time, because it was a big deal that Elton [John] and my dad had done it. But I don’t think it’s the kind of song that stood the test of time in the same way as “Imagine” did or even “Gimme Some Truth.” The b...
Right. So that’s kind of the antidote to “#9 Dream.” It’s very heavy, and I’m sure he loved that one. I think he was proud of it. “Steel and Glass” is my kind of song. It’s darker and it’s the part of my dad’s personality that I admire most. He’s a heavy guy, you know. My mom always talked about the lyric “steel and glass” being about buildings, li...
Double Fantasyis a very loaded record for me, because my earliest memories are hanging around the Hit Factory as a kid when they were making it. And my dad famously died when they had just finished or were still finishing in a way. So I have so many personal memories revolving around that record. After my dad died, one of the ways in which I mourne...
I’ve always heard that my dad took off five years to raise me, and that’s why he didn’t do any records. This is speculative, so I don’t know. Maybe he should speak for himself, but I feel like maybe that was not exactly what happened. I think there was a lot of stuff going on with negotiating things here and there and Allen Klein or whatever. I thi...
Jun 19, 2022 · John Lennon and Yoko Ono's son, Sean, has shared a beautiful video to his Instagram page in honour of Paul McCartney 's 80th birthday. In the video, he performs a cover of 'Here, There and Everywhere', writing in a message to his late father's bandmate, "A little birdy told me this was one of your your fav Beatles tunes". (Watch the video above.)
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Sep 23, 2020 · Sean Lennon is helping celebrate what would have been his father John Lennon’s 80th birthday. The younger Lennon will interview his brother Julian Lennon, Paul McCartney and Elton John in a two ...
Jun 19, 2022 · Sean Ono Lennon shared an acoustic cover of The Beatles’ 1966 song “Here, There and Everywhere” on June 18 to wish Paul McCartney a happy 80th birthday. Videos by American Songwriter “A ...
Oct 9, 2020 · Sean Lennon marked what would’ve been his father John Lennon ’s 80th birthday with a cover of “Isolation” for The Late Show ’s #PlayAtHome music series. The younger Lennon’s rendition ...
JOHN LENNON AT 80. In a worldwide exclusive for BBC Radio 2, to mark what would have been John Lennon ’s 80th birthday, Sean Ono Lennon interviews Julian Lennon, Paul McCartney and Elton John in two-part documentary, JOHN LENNON AT 80 broadcast on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th October, 9-10pm. BBC SOUNDS: CONVERSATIONS.
