Sean Ono Lennon has revealed that he began making music in an effort to “fill the void” left by the loss of life 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 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 best way to fill that void. Studying the best way to play his songs on guitar was a approach to course of the loss with an exercise that made me really feel related to him.”
“Whenever you’ve misplaced a mother or father, 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 variety of solo information, together with this yr’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 just lately 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’ had been one phrase. I believe he at all times had his coronary heart set on her. He was so in love along with her. They’d a legendary love and I believe 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 grew to become. It is sort of a diary, and it’s my responsibility to deliver 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, folks 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.”
