Sean Ono Lennon has revealed that he began making music with a purpose to “fill the void” left by the demise 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 previous when his father was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in 1980.
In a brand new interview with Individuals, Lennon has shared a private perception into how the tragedy affected him and the way music turned 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 how one can fill that void. Studying how one can play his songs on guitar was a technique to course of the loss with an exercise that made me really feel linked to him.”
“If you’ve misplaced a father or mother, issues like that inspire 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 quite a few solo information, together with this 12 months’s ‘Asterisms’, and in recent times has turn into a sought-after producer for various bands together with Fats White Household, Temples and The Lemon Twigs.
Sean has additionally not too long ago been nominated for a Grammy Award for Finest Boxed or Particular Restricted Version Bundle 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’ have been one phrase. I feel he at all times had his coronary heart set on her. He was so in love together with her. They’d a legendary love and I feel that this album is infused with that love. You possibly can 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 turned. It is sort of a diary, and it’s my responsibility to convey 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 could possibly be forgotten. I refuse to let that occur to this music – it means an excessive amount of to me.”
