Sean Ono Lennon shares 'John & Yoko' documentary, and family memories

The only full-length shows that John Lennon ever performed after the breakup of The Beatles were in 1972, the One to One concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden. The shows helped shine a light on deplorable conditions at a facility for disabled children. Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, had recently moved to the States, and a new documentary called "One To One: John & Yoko" focuses on the 18 months they lived in a Greenwich Village apartment, dedicating themselves to political activism. It's streaming now on HBO, and their son, Sean Ono Lennon, was an executive producer on the film. He says the guiding principle behind his parents' activism was simple.

SEAN ONO LENNON: You know, peace and love is the answer. There's that famous quote of my dad, where he says, you can't fight the man with violence because violence is the language that, you know, the powers that be understand at. But what they can't deal with is love and humor. And I think that's - kind of sums it up.

CHANG: His parents seemed inseparable in their activism. I mean, John and Yoko, even that pair of names was like its own entity. And so I asked Sean how hard was it for his mom to carve out an identity that was separate and distinct from his father's?

Source: Sarah Handel, Ailsa Chang, Kai McNamee/iowapublicradio.org

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