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Who is John Lennon’s half-Japanese lookalike son, Sean Ono Lennon? Yoko Ono’s only kid with The Beatles star just released a song with Paul McCartney’s son James McCartney, called ‘Primrose Hill’

John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons recently made headlines making music together, but what do we know about Sean Ono Lennon, who looks just like his late dad? Photos: Getty Images, @johnlennon/Instagram
John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s sons recently made headlines making music together, but what do we know about Sean Ono Lennon, who looks just like his late dad? Photos: Getty Images, @johnlennon/Instagram

  • The sons of The Beatles stars Paul McCartney and the late John Lennon, James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon, released their song ‘Primrose Hill’ earlier this month, and fans are going wild for it
  • Sean was born in New York and went on to follow in his father’s footsteps – the 48-year-old was not impressed by the song his dad wrote about him, but he and half bro Julian are pals

Fans of The Beatles are going crazy over one of the most unexpected collaborations of 2024 – a Lennon-McCartney original.

James McCartney, the son of Paul McCartney, and Sean Ono Lennon, the son of the late John Lennon, released their song “Primrose Hill” earlier this month, per The Guardian. Soon after its release, netizens took to social media to point out how closely they resemble their legendary fathers, both vocally and physically.

 
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McCartney opened up about the new song in a post on Instagram: “I had a vision as a child in Scotland, on what was a lovely summer’s day. Letting go, I saw my true love and saviour in my mind’s eye. Primrose Hill is about getting the ball rolling with me and finding this person.” He said the song was co-written by his “good friend” Sean Ono Lennon.

It’s always heartwarming to see the children of our favourite celebs unite and find common ground, which in their case happens to be music, the very thing that their fathers loved and became icons for.

Here’s what we know about Sean Ono Lennon.

Sean Ono Lennon has famous parents

Sean Lennon and mum Yoko Ono during a tribute event for his late father in New York City, US, in 2001. Photo: WireImage
Sean Lennon and mum Yoko Ono during a tribute event for his late father in New York City, US, in 2001. Photo: WireImage

Sean Taro Ono Lennon, 48, was born in New York to his parents John Lennon, from The Beatles, and his wife Yoko Ono, a Japanese multimedia artist and singer. In a mum-son interview with Harper’s Bazaar in 2017, Sean spoke up about the grief that they went through after losing John in 1980.

“We’d gone through the loss of my father together, so I witnessed her struggle, and then I saw her turn that struggle into art literally within a few months,” he told the publication. “I realised that art was a way of processing and understanding your experience.”

His dad wrote a song about him

John Lennon poses for photographers in Cannes, France, in 1971. Photo: AFP
John Lennon poses for photographers in Cannes, France, in 1971. Photo: AFP

According to reports, John’s 1980 song “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)” was inspired by his son, Sean. However, in an interview with AP, Sean said the song “makes me feel like I’m infantilised or something”.