Sean Ono Lennon – from the “fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree” department.

Sean Ono Lennon for a Saturday Weekend. Recorded at The Rainbow Club in Milano on February 12, 2007 by RAI-Radio 1.

One of my favorites (forget who his dad is), Sean Ono Lennon in a reasonably intimate setting, accompanied by a great backup band and a really chatty Italian Radio announcer.

Over the course of his career, Sean Lennon has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the Claypool Lennon Delirium and his parents’ group Plastic Ono Band. Lennon has released three solo albums: Into the Sun (1998), Friendly Fire (2006), and Asterisms (2024). He has produced numerous albums for various artists, including Black Lips and the Plastic Ono Band. Lennon served as executive producer and music producer for One to One: John & Yoko (2024). The film centers on the only full-length post-Beatles concert John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed, the “One to One” benefit show in 1972.

His second album, Friendly Fire was released in October 2006. The theme of the album is love and betrayal, and it is dedicated to the memory of a close friend who died. The night the album was released, Lennon made his first major television appearance in five years, performing “Dead Meat” live on the Late Show with David Letterman. Lennon has since appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Sharon Osbourne Show. When questioned about the eight-year gap between solo albums in interviews, Lennon said that he did not feel like a solo artist during those years and that he wanted to experience music anonymously without the spotlight on him and his girlfriend.

Since the release of Friendly Fire, Lennon has toured extensively around the world and while in France, he remixed his song “Parachute” in collaboration with French artist -M-. The remix is titled “L’éclipse” and was featured as a bonus track on the French release of Friendly Fire, while the single “Dead Meat” was featured in an episode of the TV drama True Blood.

With the release of new material and subsequent touring Lennon launched a website featuring music, videos, and a forum for his fans. Various members of the forum have created a fan-made cover album titled Truth Mask Replica.

Girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl and Lennon premiered the band the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger during a live performance at Radio City on Valentine’s Day, 2008. The duo, commonly referred to as the GOASTT, released their debut single, “Jardin Du Luxembourg”, on July 6, 2010, and their debut album, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (Acoustic Sessions), on October 26, both on Chimera, their own label. In conjunction with the debut, they performed six songs during an hour-long interview on WNYC and four songs for a Tiny Desk Concert on NPR. Lennon has also collaborated with Muhl with a group called “Kemp and Eden” who premiered at The Living Room in the spring of 2012. On April 29, 2014, the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger released their most successful album to date, titled Midnight Sun. The album was selected as one of the Top 50 best albums of 2014 by Rolling Stone. The album’s release was followed by tours with the Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, Beck, Florence and the Machine, Dinosaur Jr., and Primus.

On April 12, 2024, James McCartney, son of Paul McCartney, released a song called “Primrose Hill” with Sean being credited as a composer and songwriter, marking their first collaboration.

Lennon is credited as co-producer for one song (“In the Eyes of the Girl”) on the fifth studio album by The Lemon Twigs, “A Dream Is All We Know“, and is credited as playing bass guitar on the same track.

That’s what’s been going on lately. For a reminder of what was going on in 2007, have a listen. A lot of good music, famous dad or not.