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Metro
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Inside 'feud' between John Lennon's sons as Sean Ono speaks out
Sean Ono Lennon has spoken out about his 'feud' with his half-brother Julian Lennon, following years of reported bad blood. John Lennon and his second wife Yoko Ono are the subject of a new film titled One to One: John and Yoko, that focuses on the couple's controversial relationship in a brief moment in the 1970s. The couple's son Sean was involved in the project and oversaw audio mastering for the concert footage. The film has reignited interest in the couple and their family, and has led to speculation about a feud between Lennon's two children. Sean, 49, has now shared a post to encourage fans to respect the fact that there is no feud and that they have a good relationship. 'Here, we do not accept comparisons and erroneous creations of fights about two people that John Lennon loved the most: his children,' read a post from a Lennon fan account, which Sean reposted to his Instagram Stories. He also added: 'Peace and much love.' The text was written on top of an image of Sean and Julian, 62, Lennon's son with his first wife Cynthia Powell, at the 1986 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, when they inducted Elvis Presley. In the image, Sean would have been around 11, while his half-brother would have been around 23. The relationship between the brothers has been a point of speculation from Beatles fans online for several months. Some have highlighted Julian's comments about his step-mother Ono, as evidence of tensions, with claims he had to buy back letters he had written to his father because she refused to give them to him. In 1996, he sued his father's estate and revealed in 1999 on The Dini Petty Show that he used some of that money to buy some of the other items that once belonged to his father. However, in the same interview, any negative feelings towards his stepmother were separate from his half-brother. Julian explained he only had warm feelings towards his little brother, who was caught in the middle of a difficult situation. Other TikTok sleuths speculated that Julian had been abandoned by his father after Lennon wrote the song Beautiful Boy about his younger son Sean and not his elder son. In December 2024, Julian shared images of him spending one one-on-one time where they sat down for dinner together. The black and white images showed the pair at The Dakota, a building where his father lived with Yoko and Sean, and was eventually shot in front of. 'A Goodnight kiss for my brother, after spending the evening with him, having a lil dinner & chatting the night away, at The Dakota. Something we rarely get to do… Thankful.' In 2022, Julian told People that Sean was his 'best mate'. 'We're brothers and we love each other deeply on that level,' he added. 'We just talk daily, same as anybody would.' In the same interview he revealed that he and his brother bonded over music, food, exercise, and photography, and have supported each other in recent years. He revealed that he was wary about attending a screening of the Beatles movie, Get Back, but was encouraged to go by his brother. More Trending 'But [brother] Sean was adamant and felt committed, and we were both in L.A.… so I said, 'Listen, I'll go with you. Let's go together, let's go as a team.' And it was great to do that.' Julian has previously had cancer, and in December 2024 he told fans he underwent surgery after finding two moles, on his shoulder and his forearm, one of which was Melanoma. He encouraged fans to get themselves checked: 'It only takes a short while to do so, and you may just be saving your own life, at the end of the day… so please, for the sake of yourself, your family and friends just go to your Dr and do what must be done… 'I love life and I want to live for a very long time and this is one way, and a choice, that could determine your future… I wish you all happy holidaze and a healthy long life…' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Horror fans get 'chills' from brutal I Know What You Did Last Summer trailer MORE: George Clooney baffles fans over shock confession about marriage to wife Amal MORE: Former child star Sophie Nyweide dies aged 24
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Son Gives Rare Details on His Childhood
Originally appeared on E! Online Sean Ono Lennon is shedding light on his legendary family. The son of and Yoko Ono, who were married from 1969 until the alum's death in 1980, described his parents as 'ahead of their time' for the way they documented their lives long before that became the norm. 'I think it's really interesting that John and Yoko famously recorded their lives all the time via video—I mean, via 16 millimeter film,' he told Variety in an interview published April 11. 'The fact that they were doing that in the early '70s, before reality television and before social media and before memes … As far as I am concerned, it's like they were the first reality TV celebrity couple.' Sean, 49, explained that his father—who also shared son Julian Lennon, 62, with his first wife Cynthia Lennon—adopted the practice partly out of necessity, as the FBI began surveilling him in 1971 amid his anti-war activism. 'On one of the audio calls, you hear my dad saying, 'I'm recording all of these calls just so we have our own copy of this, so if anyone ever tries to say anything about what we are talking about, then we'll have our own version—so we'll know what the truth is,'' Sean continued. 'It's pretty wild to think that that was actually necessary to do, which I think it was probably a smart idea.' And given that Sean was just 5 years old when his father was murdered, those tapes are all the more precious to him. More from E! Online Prince Harry Reunites With Kids in Rare Appearance on Meghan Markle's Instagram Sean "Diddy" Combs Accuser Removes Beyoncé and Jay-Z From "Freak Off" Event Lawsuit Tori Spelling Reveals How Conversation With Daughter Led to Dean McDermott Breakup 'On one of the audio calls, you hear my dad saying, 'I'm recording all of these calls just so we have our own copy of this, so if anyone ever tries to say anything about what we are talking about, then we'll have our own version—so we'll know what the truth is,'' Sean continued. 'It's pretty wild to think that that was actually necessary to do, which I think it was probably a smart idea.' And given that Sean was just 5 years old when his father was murdered, those tapes are all the more precious to him. "Especially because I grew up without my dad around," he went on, "every recording of his voice and every video of him that people have seen, it's a limited resource." Amid the release of the documentary One to One: John and Yoko, which features newly-unearthed phone calls recorded by his parents, Sean also noted that viewers may see his mother in a new light. 'People are really gonna get to hear my mom speak for herself in an undeniably candid context,' he added. 'I think it really shows what she suffered and what she went through, but also how smart she was, and how she was viewing the world at the time.' One to One: John and Yoko opens in theatres April 11. For more details on John Lennon's death, read on. John Lennon's Final Interviews The Last Picture ShowA Day in the LifeLennon's Final Hours The Murder of John LennonThe News Breaks John's BoysWas Mark David Chapman Insane?The Deal With The Catcher in the RyeWhere Is Mark David Chapman Now?Yoko Ono Carries On For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
BBC News
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'One to one' with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
BBC Talking Movies presenter Tom Brook explores the just released IMAX film One to One: John and Yoko, which covers the 18-month period when the couple first arrived in New York City in 1971 and lived in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood. The documentary makes use of restored concert footage, never-before-seen home movies and recordings of telephone conversations. For Tom, a long-time Lennon fan, watching the film was an emotional experience. He covered the slaying of the former Beatle at the Dakota apartment building for BBC News on 8 December 1980. Produced by Alex Trowbridge
Forbes
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
How Documentary ‘One To One: John And Yoko' Mirrors America In 2025
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York in the 70s "When my editor, Sam Rice-Edwards, and I were making this, we could not believe that almost every day we were looking at it and saying, 'Oh my God. This is exactly what's going on in America right now,'" recalls director Kevin Macdonald as we discuss new documentary One to One: John and Yoko. "There was the first black woman running for President, and you had a right-wing populist who is running for President who gets shot on camera. Richard Nixon behaved with great skullduggery and used the power of the White House in an unconventional way. There are so many aspects of this, including the war in Vietnam, which is paralleled today with the war in Gaza and the divisions on the campuses of America, so it feels like we're living through the weird, warped repeat of what happened in the early 70s in America." The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind The Last King of Scotland uses never-before-seen Lennon family footage and audio, along with the musician's only full-length show after leaving The Beatles, the One to One benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, as the framework for the film. "I alternate on whether I think that's something the parallels with today are reassuring because it makes you realize that what is happening right now is not the end of the world because America has lived through this before, or whether it makes you think, 'Do we not learn anything? Do we keep just repeating the same mistakes?'" Macdonald muses. "I don't know, but it is remarkable. I didn't set out to make a film about today, but it feels that way." One to One: John and Yoko, which lands in theaters on Friday, April 11, 2025, in IMAX and theaters, delivers "an immersive cinematic experience" including never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of John and Yoko's only full-length concert and has been newly remixed and produced by Sean Ono Lennon. "That concert was released once on VHS in 1986 with terrible quality sound and picture, and the reason nothing else was ever done with it was because it was so badly recorded," Macdonald explains. "It's only now that it was able to be properly mixed because there was so much bleed-through from every track on the recording, and I think everyone was stoned when it was being recorded, so nobody did an excellent job. Only in the last couple of years, with the sound technology there is, was anyone able to make an amazing mix. This is the only full-length concert that John Lennon gave after The Beatles stopped touring in 1966. If you want to see him performing at his height, he's 32 years old, he's f**king great and so charismatic, then this is the show to see." One to One: John and Yoko is not the first time the filmmaker has tackled the narrative of an icon, having previously directed the acclaimed Whitney Houston documentary, Whitney. However, as with that piece, Macdonald needed to find a bigger story to weave around this legendary moment in time. He didn't want this film to be a concert movie because he felt it was more than that. "It was really about saying, 'Okay, so how do you create a film around that?' I've made a lot of music films and documentaries over the years, and I'm always interested in trying to do something different, to present the past in a different way," he muses. "This presented an opportunity to do an arts documentary, the premise of which was, 'How do you use the shards that are left behind by a life like this?' and not try and overly curate them into a neat narrative. Let's just take all these wonderful things that have not been used before, their home movies and news clips, and present them in a way that seems almost semi-random so that you get the feeling that you, yourself, the viewer, are looking through their archive. You're doing what I was doing, which is looking through the boxes of tapes, and out of that kind of kaleidoscope, you create your own feeling about what you think about them and about the times." Kevin Macdonald, director of 'One to One: John and Yoko.' That archive was key and threw up opportunities and realities that he hadn't anticipated, including an interview with John in which he talks about how when he first arrived in America. It struck a chord. "He learned about the country through TV. He spent so many of those eight years in America watching television. He was an addict, and he says that at the beginning of the film," Macdonald enthuses. "I related to that. I went to America for the first time in the 70s because I had an American grandmother, and we used to go often for holidays. Coming from three TV channels in Britain with the national anthem playing at midnight, and then it goes to black, you go to America, and you have suddenly got 150 channels and all the craziness of this country represented there." "I wanted to represent that experience as a European going to America at that time, the madness and fun of seeing the world presented in front of you in your living room. That's why I recreated the apartment. On one level, this film is about John and Yoko sitting on their bed watching TV, which doesn't sound very appealing, but other than the concert, it's the other thing in the movie." Sean Lennon, John and Yoko's son, became integral to the creative process. He gave Macdonald access to everything he had from that period because it "sounded like something his mother would love." The director remembers the first moment he started unpacking the treasure trove. "These drives showed up from the Lennon archive, and there were hours of this home video footage, filmed in black and white with an early form of a video called Portapak," he recalls. "There was footage from the world feminist conference, John and Yoko in their apartment singing and rehearsing, and then there was all these rushes from a documentary that was never actually made about Yoko's art exhibition that she had in upstate New York. We were fortunate that this is the only period in John and Yoko's lives that you could have done a film like this. At no other period did they allow the cameras in so much and want to be filmed." "Halfway through the edit, I got a phone call from Simon Hilton, who works with the family and oversees all their archive, and he said, 'We found these tapes in a box that says audio recordings 1972. Do you want to have a listen? We have no idea what they are,' and it turned out to be recordings of all their phone calls. That real treasure trove gives you John and Yoko's unfiltered, intimate voices in a way that most people probably haven't heard before." Yoko Ono and John Lennon in 'One to One: John and Yoko.' Macdonald knew from the outset that he wanted the audience to have the same unfiltered experience "of all the great bits." "There is that experience of when you go through a box of archive and you think, 'Oh, my God. What's this? I can't believe they're saying that.' To have that sense of chaos is amazing, but you're also piecing together what you think about these people from these seemingly disparate random bits. The voices of John Yoko come across very clearly, and I wanted the use of all these different clips to give you a sense of John and Yoko's emotional life in a way that we haven't seen before." But it wasn't always easy. "You really feel like you understand their relationship to Yoko's daughter, her being kidnapped, and how that affected both of them, particularly Yoko," the filmmaker concludes. "This theme of damaged children and their own difficult childhoods comes through the documentary. It's how they see these children who are being mistreated at a state-run institution in upstate New York called Willowbrook when they see that on TV, and that's what leads them to do this concert in the first place. I wanted you to have emotional access to John and Yoko that maybe you haven't had before."
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Documentary Trailer Contains Footage of MSG Benefit Concert: Watch
The post John Lennon and Yoko Ono Documentary Trailer Contains Footage of MSG Benefit Concert: Watch appeared first on Consequence. Following The Beatles' breakup in 1970, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to Greenwich Village to escape tabloid attention. That's the time period explored in the trailer for the new documentary, One to One: John and Yoko. Watch it below. 'I fell in love with an independent, creative genius. I started waking up,' Lennon says about Ono after footage of the couple enjoying New York City is shown. 'I really feel at home here.' Later, the musician discusses his legendary 1972 'One to One' benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, saying he made it free to 'change the apathy that youth have' by singing and speaking to them. 'I would do anything to get them alive again,' Lennon adds. 'Viva la revolución.' Coming from The Last King of Scotland director Kevin MacDonald, One to One: John and Yoko contains never-before-seen material and newly restored footage from the concert. It also features newly remixed music from their son, Sean Ono Lennon, who served as executive producer on the film. Here's the official logline: 'On August 30, 1972, in New York City, John Lennon played his only full-length show after leaving The Beatles, the 'One to One' benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, a rollicking, dazzling performance from him and Yoko Ono… By 1971 the couple was newly arrived in the United States — living in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watching a huge amount of American television. The film uses a riotous mélange of American TV to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the screen: the Vietnam War, The Price is Right, Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Cronkite, The Waltons. As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest — ultimately leading to the 'One to One' concert, which was inspired by a Geraldo Rivera exposé they watched on TV.' One to One: John and Yoko opens in IMAX on April 11th, with a wide release one week later. John Lennon and Yoko Ono Documentary Trailer Contains Footage of MSG Benefit Concert: Watch Eddie Fu Popular Posts Tool Apparently Booed for Disappointing Set at Their Own Festival Dead Kennedys Legend Jello Biafra Joins Cavalera Onstage for "Nazi Trumps F**k Off": Watch Lady Gaga on Meeting Trent Reznor: "I Black Out Every Time I'm in His Presence" Gene Hackman and Wife's Causes of Death Revealed Monty Python and the Holy Grail Returning to Theaters for 50th Anniversary Gene Simmons Charging $12,500 To Be His Personal Assistant and Roadie for One Day Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
