{"id":89708,"date":"2025-09-27T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/89708\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:49:09","slug":"why-john-lennon-resented-being-in-the-beatles-according-to-son-sean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/89708\/","title":{"rendered":"Why John Lennon &#8220;resented&#8221; being in The Beatles, according to son Sean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/sean-ono-lennon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Ono Lennon<\/a> has opened up about the reasons he believes his father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/john-lennon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John<\/a> came to \u201cresent\u201d being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-beatles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beatle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The musician and producer was born in 1975 to the late music legend and the avant-garde artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/yoko-ono\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yoko Ono<\/a>, and earlier this year, he oversaw the audio mastering for the concert footage in the new documentary film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/film-reviews\/one-to-one-john-lennon-yoko-ono-review-3791980\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One To One: John &amp; Yoko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That film follows the years that the couple lived in a Greenwich Village apartment in New York City in the early \u201870s, during which they became engaged in protest politics and played a benefit concert in Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Sean has given an interview to Chris Hawkins on BBC Radio 6 Music in which he spoke about his parents\u2019 point of view during that period, and offered his thoughts on why John Lennon came to reflect negatively on his enormous earlier success.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question about whether he felt John had become disillusioned with music, Sean said: \u201cI don\u2019t feel that he\u2019d fallen out of love with music. I think he\u2019d fallen out of love with a certain kind of fame. I think he\u2019d fallen out of love with having to be a part of a machinery, of a pop machine, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that was \u2013 even though he was always rebellious within that framework, I think that he still resented, you know, having to be a Beatle in a way. I think he really wanted to move on from that, you know. I think his relationship with my mom was the catalyst for it and the symbol of it in his mind. And he wanted to move on and be a radical artist and activist with, you know, this girl, Yoko, who he had fallen in love with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean continued: \u201cSo, I think he was trying to find a new way to do things and looking for a new way to do things. I think there were some growing pains, you know. And by growing pains, I just simply mean he made a record with my mom that people didn\u2019t necessarily like, \u2018Some Time in New York City\u2019, you know. I think the songs are really great. I just think they\u2019re less manicured than what people were used to. You know, they were clearly recorded impulsively and quickly. And I think that was the rock and roll spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was almost like a punk, a proto-punk kind of spirit. But I don\u2019t think people were ready for that, paired with how heavily political the messaging was. But it still \u2013 I think when it didn\u2019t sell, I think that was hard for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/film-reviews\/one-to-one-john-lennon-yoko-ono-review-3791980\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NME awarded One To One: John &amp; Yoko a full five stars<\/a>, noting: \u201cIn short, this is a terrific documentary from start to finish, beautifully structured and by turns bracingly political, informative and inspiring. It\u2019s also profoundly bittersweet, because it\u2019s impossible to watch the film and wonder what kind of figure Lennon would have become in the 21st century. Just imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sean-ono-lennon-reflects-on-legendary-love-between-parents-john-and-yoko-3817007\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean spoke about overseeing the production on the \u2018Mind Games\u2019 reissue boxset<\/a>, an album originally released during what he described as a \u201creally terrifying\u201d period for his parents.<\/p>\n<p>He saw the album as representing a step away from radical activism, saying: \u201cI think they felt like they didn\u2019t want to be in that world anymore. They realized that it was not a fun road for them and so they wanted to make music that was less directly attacking the establishment and focusing more on peace and love again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean also revealed last year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sean-ono-lennon-on-yokos-life-after-john-she-never-has-moved-on-from-that-relationship-3818096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his mother \u201cnever has moved on\u201d from John\u2019s death<\/a>, and that he started\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sean-ono-lennon-says-he-started-making-music-to-fill-the-void-after-john-lennons-death-3815323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making his own music in order to \u201cfill the void\u201d left by the death of his father<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never played music because I was good at it,\u201d he explained. \u201cI lost my father and I didn\u2019t know how to fill that void. Learning how to play his songs on guitar was a way to process the loss with an activity that made me feel connected to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/john-lennon-and-yoko-onos-political-activism-and-nyc-era-explored-on-new-power-to-the-people-box-set-3884894\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean has now overseen a new boxset named \u2018Power To The People\u2019<\/a>, due out on October 10. It explores John and Yoko\u2019s NYC era and includes unreleased demos, home recordings, jam sessions, live cuts, unique mixes and more. It is out on October 10 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/an-unreleased-newly-restored-video-of-john-lennon-and-yoko-onos-instant-karma-we-all-shine-on-has-been-released-3888849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">includes a newly restored version of \u2018Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Lennon recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-three-of-the-beatles-sons-team-up-on-new-mantra-of-the-cosmos-song-rip-off-3870200\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collaborated with Zak Starkey\u2019s band Mantra Of The Cosmos on \u2018Rip Off\u2019<\/a>, which also features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/paul-mccartney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney<\/a>\u2019s son James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Ono Lennon has opened up about the reasons he believes his father John came to \u201cresent\u201d being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,4513,6318],"class_list":{"0":"post-89708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-pop","14":"tag-rock"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}