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And Finally
Lennon stuff
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 21 September 2010
I’ve often thought it was shame John Lennon didn’t live to see the internet. One of the first artists to see the creative and political potential of mass media and the rise of the global advertising industry, one can only imagine what he’d have made of the net and all the on going developments in the digital world, even if he would have been 70 next month.
Yoko Ono agrees, telling Andrew Marr on his BBC show last weekend: “I think he would have been going very strong and creative, still, and I think he would have been very interested in playing [on] the computer because he always jumped on some new media and that is a very interesting new media”.
Talking of all things Lennon, his son by first wife Cynthia, Julian Lennon, has made peace with his step-mother Yoko and half brother Sean, telling the media that “things are good” between the three of them.
Relationships between Lennon’s two families were not great even when the former Beatle was alive, and went legal in estate disputes once he’d died. But Julian told the New York Post recently: “Things are good between us. Whenever I’m in New York we all get together. Sean even asked me to shoot his album cover – for free, of course”.
