Sean Lennon: 'People only see me as the spoiled slacker son of John and Yoko'
If he was an ordinary musician without the famous last name, the assortment of music projects keeping Sean Lennon busy right now (producer, band member, solo artist, environmental activist) might cry out creative restlessness or workaholic.
He’s co-produced the forthcoming album by Fat White Family, and he’s also working with members of the group on a side project, a new act called the Moonlandingz who have an EP out in October. It’s released on his label Chimera Music, a label started by Lennon and his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl, and he’ll head into the studio next month to help produce and play on a Moonlandingz record, with an EP planned for October.
Meanwhile, Lennon has also started writing new music for his and Muhl’s band (they play together under the moniker The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger), in addition to new songs for himself – a batch of tunes that, once he’s ready to put them out, will comprise his first solo album in almost a decade. As if that’s not enough, he’s collaborating with his mother Yoko Ono on a new album she’s releasing in January. Oh, and he’s directing a documentary spotlighting some of his friends who work as artists in New York
From the outside, it might seem like a lot for one artist to tackle. But that’s where the youngest son of the guy who formed the Beatles finds himself these days – not so much addicted to keeping busy, just focused on making the things that make him happy.
Come October, he’ll also reach a milestone. That’s when Lennon turns 40, the same age his father was when he was murdered in 1980. Small wonder, then, the approach of middle age finds Sean Lennon thinking less these days about legacy and expectations, and more about the direction of his life and the kind of art he wants to put out into the world.
By: Andy Meek
Source: The Guardian
