Sean Lennon Unfazed by Life in the Spotlight

Posted on March 30, 2007

Sean Lennon, who was only four when his famous father was murdered, says he knows of no other life than one under constant public scrutiny.

Sean Lennon is accustomed to people recognizing him because of his famous parents, but one incident really caught him off-guard. “When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was
Paul McCartney’s daughter,” the 31-year-old singer told AP Radio in a recent interview. “That really blew my mind.”
Lennon said he usually finds himself unfazed by all the attention he gets as the son of Yoko Ono and former Beatle John Lennon, who was killed in New York City in 1980. “I don’t have any perspective on a life without people freaking out about my parents, so I don’t know what it would be like for that not to happen,” he said.
“People only have glimpses of like, you know, who I might be and I don’t [...]

Original post by James Joyner and software by Elliott

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  1. Tina Jensen on

    Sean was born Oct. 9, 1975. John Lennon was murdered on Dec. 8, 1980. Sean was five when his father was killed.

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