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March 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Music Feuds
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. The topic was Music Feuds – and so I discussed The Beatles/Yoko Ono, Simon & Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye’s divorce from Anna Gordy […]Archive
October 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 490
John Lennon, Watching The Wheels [Single] (1981) The best solo song by John Lennon – well, up there anyway, my personal favourite. A song I’ve always loved, one I link to trying to process his death at a very young age, at knowing that it meant something, one I link to understanding him as something […]Archive
July 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Claypool Lennon Delirium: Monolith of Phobos
The Claypool Lennon Delirium Monolith of Phobos ATO Records There is, in the end, nothing at all surprising about this collaboration between Primus’ Les Claypool and John and Yoko’s son, Sean. It sounds like the best bits of the music they’re known for separately. When a track gets too Primus-y, as on Captain Lariat, one […]Archive
June 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Gruen and Jody Denberg: See Hear Yoko
See Hear Yoko Bob Gruen and Jody Denberg Harper Bob Gruen has photographs from across the time Yoko Ono and John Lennon were bed-dwelling activists, through the birth of their son Sean and on to the present day. He charged Jody Denberg with the responsibility of matching choice quotes from Yoko and creating contextualising captions. […]Archive
August 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger: Midnight Sun
The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger Midnight Sun Chimera Music How does it feel to be two of the Beautiful People? Pretty good according to Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl. This second album under the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger name is the best thing that Sean Lennon has done – and […]Archive
March 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Cibo Matto: Hotel Valentine
Cibo Matto Hotel Valentine Virtual Label/Chimera Cibo Matto released two albums in the 1990s and then broke up. Sean Lennon was, briefly, a member of the group. And though there’s an obvious hipster appeal here, like a, erm, slowed down Chicks on Speed, it’s nice to have Cibo Matto back – back with their third […]Archive
February 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: Take Me To The Land Of Hell
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band Take Me To The Land Of Hell Chimera Music Her heart is dancing and her mind is bouncing. She’s 80 – but it’s been that way for her entire artistic life, she even says so – literally using those words – on Bad Dancer, one of the 13 excellent tracks […]Archive
March 18, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1574
John Lennon/Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy (1980) I gave away my dad’s copy of this album – so had to buy another copy some years down the track. But this album was a staple growing up. The rule was that you skipped the tracks featuring Yoko Ono (far easier once the CD player came along). And […]Archive
October 19, 2011 by Simon Sweetman