{"id":199338,"date":"2025-12-23T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/199338\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:27:07","slug":"sean-ono-lennon-says-the-younger-generation-could-forget-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/199338\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Ono Lennon Says the ‘Younger Generation’ Could Forget the Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe idea that the Beatles<\/a>\u2018 vital discography could be lost to a generation seems unfathomable, but as time passes, new technology arises, and society inevitably changes, John Lennon<\/a>\u2018s son, Sean Ono Lennon<\/a>, says it\u2019s possible that the band could someday be forgotten.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen speaking to CBS Sunday Morning<\/a>, Sean, 50, said he has \u201ctechnically\u201d taken over the role of custodian of his father\u2019s legacy, which his mother, Yoko Ono<\/a>, has protected and shaped <\/a>throughout the decades.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut obviously the world is also the custodian of his legacy, I would say,\u201d said Sean. \u201cI\u2019m just doing my best to help make sure that the younger generation doesn\u2019t forget about The Beatles and John and Yoko. That\u2019s how I look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked if he thought it was possible for the new generation to not remember, Sean replied, \u201cTo forget about it? I do, actually,\u201d adding, \u201cAnd I never did before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn (who featured on the front page of Rolling Stone\u2018s very first issue in 1967<\/a>), Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the late George Harrison delivered one of the most enduring and revolutionary catalogs in the history of rock & roll \u2014 from their 1963 debut album, Please Please Me, to their final studio album, 1970\u2019s Let It Be.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter John launched his solo career in 1970, after marrying Ono the year before, the couple released the transcendent record, Double Fantasy, in 1980, the final album before Lennon\u2019s tragic murder.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy parents gave me so much that I think it\u2019s the least I can do to try and support their legacy in my lifetime,\u201d Sean told CBS. \u201cI feel like I just owe it to them. It\u2019s a personal thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, Sean and filmmaker Dave Mullins released the short film War Is Over!<\/a>, winning an Academy Award for the project. The movie takes the anti-war anthem \u201cHappy Xmas (War Is Over)\u201d \u2014 written and recorded by his parents in 1971 \u2014 and introduces it to a new generation in an animated film about enemy soldiers in World War I playing chess via a carrier pigeon.<\/p>\n

\n\tSean described his parents\u2019 legacy as \u201cpeace and love,\u201d before clarifying: \u201cBut it\u2019s not just peace and love. It\u2019s an attitude towards activism that is done with humor and love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea that the Beatles\u2018 vital discography could be lost to a generation seems unfathomable, but as time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,42448,409,111863,17405,46516],"class_list":{"0":"post-199338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-john-lennon","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-sean-ono-lennon","14":"tag-the-beatles","15":"tag-yoko-ono"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}