Sean Lennon Shares Personal Memories of David Bowie

Nearly three months after David Bowie died from cancer on January 10, an impressive roster of musicians put on two tribute concerts at New York’s Carneige Hall Thursday and Friday nights. Although the first show had been planned since October, interest spiked after Bowie’s unexpected passing and a second date was added. As Time reported, many of the performers took time to share their reflections on Bowie as a musical influence and personal friend.

Among those was Sean Lennon, whose father John Lennon was an idol of Bowie’s. The men were friends and had a working relationship in the 1970s. As Sean recalled, Bowie was an early personal and musical influence. The multi-faceted performer took time to give him reading material when he was a youngster.

“[T]he real relationship I had with him was personal, because he was my parents’ friend. When I moved to Switzerland for boarding school, he would pick me up from school and take me to museums and tell me about Kokoschka and painters and books. He gave me the ‘Foundation’ trilogy by Isaac Asimov when I was a kid.”

“I’m really sad about him passing, as one would be about an uncle or something, but then on top of it there’s also the music influence obviously. But it’s weird, like with my dad, I think of him as the guy who was in my house, but also this epic legendary musician that influenced me as a musician. It’s almost separate things, because I have a lot of memories of David just hanging out, and those are even more important to me.”

By: Kenneth Bachor

Source: Time

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