![]() ![]() “If I owe it to my mom to do it, I’ll do it, because I love her the most. He accepts it is his duty to support Yoko in administering and protecting the Lennon legacy. To see them co-opted to make a diorama in a museum or a Broadway show makes me feel like I’m being violated.” Because those memories that I have of my childhood are so important to me. Watching a show about him on Broadway for me was like going naked through the flames of Hell. But to go to a museum or see a movie that depicts his life, it just hurts. ![]() “It’s not that I don’t want to honor him, because I feel like my whole life is a living tribute to him. I’ve sung ‘This Boy’ at a tribute concert because I love the song and I’m a professional musician, I can do any gig I’m asked to, but I didn’t like doing it. ![]() “My mom doesn’t really understand why I don’t want to meet those who worship John Lennon, why I don’t want to visit the John Lennon tribute concerts or go to the John Lennon Museum. Sean admits he has little to do with the millions of people for whom his father has become a secular saint, who speak the name “John Lennon” in the same breath as “Albert Schweitzer” or “Nelson Mandela” and create monuments to him of every kind, from an airport in Liverpool to a “tower of light” in Iceland and a graffiti wall in Prague. ![]()
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