New Sean Lennon LP out in Sept.

[lah' mah]

Watch the awesome trailer for Friendly Fri due out in in September.

Watch the trailer here: www.capitolrecords.net/seanlennon/

[tkp66]

Looks less and less like John and more like Yucko...>

[fourthousandholes]

Geez, give the poor kid a break!
There but for the grace of God go you!

Ah, but here's "The Rest of the Story" :

www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/sons%20of%20lennon%20and%20simon%20team%20up_1002786

Late BEATLE JOHN LENNON's son SEAN has enlisted the offspring of another rock superstar, PAUL SIMON, to work on his forthcoming album. HARPER SIMON has been helping Sean Lennon record FRIENDLY FIRE, his first album since 1999. An insider says, "Sean and Harper obviously have a lot in common and are good friends. "They know it's virtually impossible to escape from their fathers' shadows but they've had a lot of fun putting the album together." Friendly Fire is due to be released in September (06).
18/07/2006 07:36

[tkp66]

But would he even have a album(s) "if not for being the son of" !
Give the kid a break ??
He already has just like his mother !

[fourthousandholes]

Has anyone here run out and bought this album?

[fourthousandholes]

I wonder how many clues about Paul and John are on this.
Even the title is potentially significant.

[LOVELYRITA]

Maybe he's had cosmetic surgery to look more like Yucko....

Maybe he was looking too much like John and the evil system forced Sean into the operating room and altered him....

OR.....Sean has been replaced!

Man, you've been a naughty boy you let your face grow long...
The son of the eggman

Check the 80 IF document...and see if there's another footnote!

Isn't Friendly Fire when someone shoots and kills their own instead of the enemy? Hmmmmmm maybe a psy op...

[fourthousandholes]

www.nypost.com/seven/10292006/entertainment/music/in_a_tragic_triangle_music_larry_getlen.htm


IN A TRAGIC TRIANGLE
By LARRY GETLEN

October 29, 2006 -- LET us count the ways Sean Lennon is so clearly his father's son. There are the round specs that accentuate his vulnerable countenance; the lilting falsetto that is at once dreamy, eerie and utterly convincing; and the ability to transcend pain through music, as he does on his moving and accomplished new record, "Friendly Fire."

Without much fanfare, Lennon, who performs at the Living Room tonight, has spent the last decade of his life gracefully skirting the issue of John Lennon's legacy. He has managed to perform the delicate feat of simultaneously embracing his father's past while establishing his own identity as an indie-level musician.

Unlike the frantic machinations of Julian Lennon's attempt to take on the mantle, Sean has made his own, far quieter statements. His first album, 1998's "Into the Sun," was an intimate record that received largely favorable notices - mostly because of the restraint he showed in flexing his heritage.

Then, after an eight-year hiatus - which included brief stints as a sideman for mother Yoko Ono, Esthero, Money Mark and Cibo Matto - he finally issued his follow-up, a highly personal examination of a tragic ménage … trois. "Friendly Fire" deals with how Lennon's former girlfriend, Bijou Phillips, cheated on him with his childhood best friend, Max LeRoy, and how he still hadn't reconciled with Max when Max was killed in a motorcycle crash last November.

"It helped me survive losing him, because I was gonna go insane," Lennon says. "I'm still devastated by it. Funneling into a creative project was my way of staying afloat, and not sinking into complete depression."

Lennon's anger over Phillips' infidelity (the two are now friends again) blasts through on tracks like the deceptively sweet "Dead Meat," which is anchored by Lennon softly singing, "Don't you know you're dead meat/you just messed with the wrong team/better not try to fall asleep now."

But through his pain, Lennon gained valuable insight.

"I thought I had learned, when my dad passed away, to appreciate people," he says. "It took Max passing [for me to] realize how important those things are."

In addition to serving as musical therapy, Lennon hopes that "Friendly Fire" will allow people to view him as more than just John and Yoko's son.

"I haven't put out that many records, so people don't have a sense of who I am," says Lennon. "That's gonna come with time. The more material I have, the better sense of me people will have."

Still, Lennon emphasizes that he's not trying to crawl out from under his father's shadow. The enormity of John Lennon is a central fact of Sean's life, and one that, no matter what he accomplishes, he will always embrace with pride.

"I don't think the goal is to come out from under it," he says of his father's legend. "I'm not trying to come out from anything. I am an extension of it. See the difference?"

[fourthousandholes]

From today's New York Post "Page Six" (actually page 16 in today's edition)

www.nypost.com/seven/11132006/gossip/pagesix/youre_no_john_pagesix_.htm

"November 13, 2006 -- SEAN Lennon may want to give up music - or at least change his wardrobe - after reading a review of his London concert the other night. Evening Standard critic John Aizlewood writes, "Imagine Little Lord Fauntleroy's gone-to-seed cousin: shirt and tie, top hat, scarf dangling rakishly around his neck, hobo's beard and huge tinted glasses." Of Lennon's repertoire, he adds, "He, more than anyone, will never be The Beatles. And if he sounds a little like his father (he would, wouldn't he?) on most of his songs, it merely serves as a reminder that he'll never be John, either. No wonder Stella McCartney designs clothes."

[Doc]

fourthousandholes said:

From today's New York Post "Page Six" (actually page 16 in today's edition)

www.nypost.com/seven/11132006/gossip/pagesix/youre_no_john_pagesix_.htm

"November 13, 2006 -- SEAN Lennon may want to give up music - or at least change his wardrobe - after reading a review of his London concert the other night. Evening Standard critic John Aizlewood writes, "Imagine Little Lord Fauntleroy's gone-to-seed cousin: shirt and tie, top hat, scarf dangling rakishly around his neck, hobo's beard and huge tinted glasses." Of Lennon's repertoire, he adds, "He, more than anyone, will never be The Beatles. And if he sounds a little like his father (he would, wouldn't he?) on most of his songs, it merely serves as a reminder that he'll never be John, either. No wonder Stella McCartney designs clothes."

What a sick, bitchy thing to say in a review. A-hole styled commentary.

Leave the lad alone. His songs are very good----if he wants to to tribute to his father, why shouldn't he? It's his own interpretation and it's valid as the work of a son to the father he adored.

Sick, bitchy review.

[lili]

A photo collage put together by my son's girlfriend:

[fourthousandholes]

I heard the song on the radio and thought it sounded like a Faul composition.
This was before the DJ even said who it was.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOfD6bO7Zv4&mode=related&search=

here;s a live version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIFatEIzto&mode=related&search=

FRIENDLY FIRE
(Sean Lennon)

I don't want to hear another word from you now
I'd rather be wrong
life is mostly what you don't see anyway
so just look away
but our shadows never leave us alone
down the bad roads they will follow us
faithfully home

you launched the assualt with the first cannonball
my soldiers were sleeping
I know that you thought it would never come down,
down to the wire
it's friendly fire

in your room filled with the things that you've never done
does anyone really care
your shadow just wont leave you alone
'cos he knows well he knows what you've done

you launched the assualt (etc.)

waves don't wonder when you're drowning
under the sea
so don't look for me
find her keep her lose her deserts you in the end
you were my friend
like your shadow
no one knows you as well as I do

you launched the assualt
with the first cannonball
my soldiers were sleeping
I know that you thought
it would never come down,
down to the ground
'cos I was so tired
then I'll get down
down to the wire
it's friendly fire
(end)

Here's "Dead Meat":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlA5to_qnzo&mode=related&search=

[Mellow Yellow]

in your room filled with the things that you've never done
does anyone really care
your shadow just wont leave you alone
'cos he knows well he knows what you've done

you launched the assualt


Time for my 2 minute analysis.
It is talking to Bill, who is in his room of stuff he hasn't done because he replaced Paul. His shadow won't leave him alone because he had John killed.

[mysteryboy]

Pay attention to Sean. He is a good person.

[fourthousandholes]

MelloYello wrote:
"His shadow won't leave him alone because he had John killed."

You're entitled to your opinion, but there's not a snowball's chance in hell that Bill had John killed, imo.
Bill has consistently put clues in his songs about PID/PWR, just as was done when he was with the Beatles.
This notion that he's desperately trying to cover up what happened just doesn't wash.
It's true, he doesn't come out and say, "I'm not Paul", but he does seem to want people to
get it on their own.
As for that line, Sean told David Letterman that the inspiration for the album was a love relationship
he had with a girl who then took up with his best friend, and then
the friend died, so I'm thinking the shadow may be the dead ex-best friend of Sean.

[Doc]

mysteryboy said:

Pay attention to Sean. He is a good person.

That is the same gut vibe I have about him as well.

[Doc]

fourthousandholes said:

MelloYello wrote:
"His shadow won't leave him alone because he had John killed."

You're entitled to your opinion, but there's not a snowball's chance in hell that Bill had John killed, imo.
Bill has consistently put clues in his songs about PID/PWR, just as was done when he was with the Beatles.
This notion that he's desperately trying to cover up what happened just doesn't wash.
It's true, he doesn't come out and say, "I'm not Paul", but he does seem to want people to
get it on their own.
As for that line, Sean told David Letterman that the inspiration for the album was a love relationship
he had with a girl who then took up with his best friend, and then
the friend died, so I'm thinking the shadow may be the dead ex-best friend of Sean.

That is an angle that comes up sometimes and has gotten some volleys back and forth. I don't happen to think it could be the case; IMO Sir Paul does NOT have the heart and mind of a killer.

Besides, from some thoughtful analysis I think it becomes clear that there is no motive. Some say the motive would have been "the threat of exposure to Bill", but really don't we see that that would have been easy enough to diffuse? If Lennon had acted with such an intent, whatever he said etc would have been easily countered by stock moves known to all intelligence agencies, it would have turned into a waste of effort on John's part.

I stopped believing that John ever seriously entertained the idea months ago.
I think his angst was more directed at broader social issues, and political dishonesty about wars and economics. The "Beatles" situation was a personal story he kept apart from his public personna, except for trading snowballs with Sir Paul in songs like "How Do You Sleep?"
In that he was venting his displeasure with Bill in sarcasm; no where in the song does he
sound ready to "pull at the curtain." Heck, McCartney was busy enough with that for Lennon to even bother.......in what Macca video is there NOT something with a "wink" in it?

Of course only those with eyes to see can answer that question. Hey, I'm not boasting, I've got a great pair of spectacles called NIR.

[Mellow Yellow]

What many of you forget is that John was only politcal for about 3 years. From 70-73, after he got his citizenship approved (or after Nixon was kicked, whichever you prefer) he kept quiet. He changed his philosophy to Whatever Gets You Thru the Night. That really angers me, I can kind of see where Chapman gets off on calling John a phoney.

After Mind Games there was no more political John, Walls & Bridges, Rock & Roll, Double Fantasy, and even Milk & Honey...... Nothing political about those. I really have to wonder why.... Why wasn't he protesting the Ford/Rockefeller administration?

On a seperate note, I ofter wonder to myself how much knowledge of conspiracies John had. There was no internet back then, but I remember reading that John was watching a trial and remarked that the guy was mind controlled.... I wonder how John would know about such a thing....

I also would like to hear John's opinion on Catcher in the Rye, I am pretty sure he read it.