Sean Ono Lennon has revealed that he began making music as a way to “fill the void” left by the dying of his father, John Lennon.
The musician and producer was born in 1975 to the previous Beatles icon and the artist Yoko Ono, and was solely 5 years outdated when his father was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in 1980.
In a brand new interview with Folks, Lennon has shared a private perception into how the tragedy affected him and the way music grew to become an outlet for his creativity.
“I by no means performed music as a result of I used to be good at it,” he defined. “I misplaced my father and I didn’t know the way to fill that void. Studying the way to play his songs on guitar was a approach to course of the loss with an exercise that made me really feel linked to him.”
“Whenever you’ve misplaced a father or mother, issues like that encourage you – since you’re looking for them. Making music at all times made me really feel like I used to be attending to know him higher.”
Lennon has launched a lot of solo data, together with this 12 months’s ‘Asterisms’, and lately has turn into a sought-after producer for different bands together with Fats White Household, Temples and The Lemon Twigs.
Sean has additionally lately been nominated for a Grammy Award for Finest Boxed or Particular Restricted Version Package deal for the reissue of his father’s 1973 album ‘Thoughts Video games’, for which Sean oversaw new “meditation” mixes.
“The entire album is about my mum,” Sean defined within the new interview. “My dad declared to the world that ‘John and Yoko’ had been one phrase. I believe he at all times had his coronary heart set on her. He was so in love together with her. That they had a legendary love and I believe that this album is infused with that love. You may hear it.”
On the time of the ‘Thoughts Video games’ reissue, Sean spoke about his father’s post-Beatles work. “One factor that distinguishes my dad’s solo profession is how private his lyrics grew to become. It is sort of a diary, and it’s my responsibility to carry consideration to my father’s music. Not simply my responsibility to him, however an obligation to the world.”
“With the world as it’s now, individuals have forgotten so many issues that I by no means imagined might be forgotten. I refuse to let that occur to this music – it means an excessive amount of to me.”
