{"id":198245,"date":"2025-12-23T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198245\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:41:10","slug":"sean-ono-lennon-says-younger-generations-could-forget-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198245\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Ono Lennon Says Younger Generations Could Forget the Beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSean Ono Lennon says it\u2019s possible that future generations could lose touch with the music and legacy of The Beatles<\/a>, a thought he admits once felt unimaginable.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSpeaking on CBS Sunday Morning, the 50-year-old musician and producer reflected on his role as a steward of his late father John Lennon\u2019s legacy<\/a> \u2014 a responsibility he says has increasingly come into focus as culture, technology and listening habits continue to shift.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo forget about it? I do, actually,\u201d Sean said when asked if he believed younger generations could one day move on from the Beatles\u2019 catalogue. \u201cAnd I never did before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSean explained that while he has \u201ctechnically\u201d stepped into the role of caretaker for his father\u2019s work, following decades of stewardship by his mother Yoko Ono, he views the legacy as something shared with the wider world.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cObviously the world is also the custodian of his legacy,\u201d he said. \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\tThe Beatles \u2014 completed by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison \u2014 remain one of the most influential acts in music history, with a catalogue that reshaped popular music from Please Please Me (1963) through Let It Be (1970). Still, Sean acknowledged that cultural relevance isn\u2019t guaranteed.<\/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 he said. \u201cI feel like I just owe it to them. It\u2019s a personal thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSean has continued to engage with his parents\u2019 work in contemporary ways. In 2023, he and filmmaker Dave Mullins released the animated short War Is Over!, inspired by John and Yoko\u2019s 1971 song \u201cHappy Xmas (War Is Over),\u201d which went on to win an Academy Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tReflecting on the message at the core of his parents\u2019 work, Sean described their legacy as rooted in more than idealism alone. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s peace and love,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it\u2019s also an attitude toward activism that\u2019s done with humor and love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Ono Lennon says it\u2019s possible that future generations could lose touch with the music and legacy of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,3296,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-198245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}