Four years later, he was featured in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker video. He later performed It's Alright on the Ono tribute album, Every Man Has a Woman (1984). Lennon's first appearance on record was on his mother's Season of Glass (1981), reciting a story that his father used to tell him. When he returned to the Dakota four years later, he attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Dalton School in Manhattan. Him tucking me in at night."Īt age 11, Sean was sent off to Institut Le Rosey, a private Swiss boarding school. I miss the way his skin felt, the sound of his voice. You just miss them breathing, just being there. "You don't really miss anything specific. "I remember when my dad died," Sean told New York Magazine in 1998. John was shot by a deranged fan outside the Dakota, an apartment building in Manhattan where the Lennons lived. After Sean's birth, John quit the music business and became a house husband, doting on his young son until his murder in 1980. Lennon was born on his father's 35th birthday. He is the only child of the founding member of the English rock band the Beatles, John Lennon, and his avant-garde artist wife, Yoko Ono. Sean Taro Ono Lennon was born in New York, New York, on October 9, 1975. Lennon has since scored such films as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead and released new music with the group The Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger. He released his solo debut album, Into the Sun, in 1998, followed eight years later by Friendly Fire. After his father was killed, Lennon led a relatively private life, deciding later to pursue music and activism. Honda is especially amused because she saw the same sort of thing happen in Japan when she was younger.Sean Lennon was born in New York City to Yoko Ono and John Lennon. "But it's really interesting that now I see people wearing T-shirts that say some word in Japanese." "I was thinking, like, 'Wow!' Like I would never think that would happen. "I remember when I saw 'Blade Runner,' and you had all these Asian people living with all this Asian culture in America," she says. She adds that things do seem to be slowly shifting in America's understanding of Asian culture. " I'm kind of thinking of as a lot more longer-term thing." "Things can never work with aggression," she says. "It comes after me everywhere I go."Įven so, Cibo Matto isn't the sort of band that wants to make an issue out of this. "People are like, 'Oh, Yoko's Japanese, and Yuka's Japanese,' " Honda complains. There are a lot of things people just think is the way it is."Įven Honda's relationship with Lennon is grist for the cliche mill. It's a little harder to deal with, because it doesn't necessarily come from a malicious mind trying to hurt you. "But everything they do to us is stereotype anyway, and I think it definitely comes from some kind of unconscious thing," she says. Honda says there are some cliches that follow the band in almost every interview - " 'The girls from the Land of the Rising Sun' is one," she laughs - and that few people have grasped that the "A" in "Stereotype A" stands for "Asian." To an extent, part of the "mystery" surrounding Cibo Matto has to do with American preconceptions about what Japanese people and pop culture are about. And for some people, it's very mysterious." It's really interesting, because some people just get them so right, so fast. "There's definitely that confusion that happens with us with American people," she says. But, as Honda admits, not every listener - or even reviewer - gets the picture. Once the metaphor is grasped, the lyric seems as obvious as it is ingenious. Or, as the song puts it, "We can't avoid the lint of love/And you've got to know how to take it away." Friction causes lint, and if you wear something for a long time, you get lint, and you have to deal with that." I think that's how Miho was able to think from lint to how it's like relationships. Everything that's happening to one thing can totally relate to other things. We don't think of one thing as an independent thing from another.
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