BEATLES MAGAZINE: SEAN LENNON: " ‘I WANT YOU’ REALLY IMPACTED ME A LOT AS A KID"

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In a recent interview with Rick Beato, Sean Lennon discussed his artistic inclinations toward dark and dissonant musical compositions, tracing this affinity back to a seminal work by his father.

“I’ve always had a love of that and I think it’s because of I Want You (She’s So Heavy) – that really impacted me a lot as a kid. I've really wondered where it came from, you know. It's so unprecedented at that time. In a way I think of it like the first really heavy riff. It’s so sophisticated and unlike anything else he wrote otherwise.”

Sean Lennon further analyzed another Abbey Road classic, “Because,”: “I know where that one came from, because the famous story is that my mom was playing Moonlight Sonata, and he and my dad said, 'Wait, stop, can you play those chords backwards or maybe write them down for me?' And she did, and that was sort of the basis of Because... And that is true. I mean, according to my mom."

When Beato questioned the Beatles’ legendary creative output and how they managed such a prolific songwriting pace, Lennon expressed his own wonder: "Yeah, the amount of productivity is shocking, because it's two records a year, for eight years… Obviously it’s shocking and it’s unprecedented and inexplicable.” “But, I’ve thought about it a lot and you know, really, on some records my dad just wrote Walrus for Magical Mystery Tour. That’s one song in six months. Paul and he had each other and then George wrote a song so you know they could go in with three, four songs per record, so it's not like today where they had to write 10 songs and also today some records have 15, 20 songs because of CDs. They were shorter records – they were 30-minute records and they split up the songwriting.”

Regarding his eclectic musical tastes, Sean Lennon noted an appreciation that spans almost every genre. “I always felt like I liked something at least from every genre, because there’s always something amazing. I can’t even think of a genre that I really don’t like, maybe some obscure EDM genres that I’m not into.”

“I really like a lot of music from India, Turkey, from the Middle Ages… psyche bands from Greece from the 1970s. I have a lot of Ethiopian jazz. And I’m a bit prog fan.”

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Monday, 29 June 2026

SEAN LENNON: " ‘I WANT YOU’ REALLY IMPACTED ME A LOT AS A KID"

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