"Raising money for victims of global violence will fast become a passion for Sean Lennon, who is a natural peacekeeper. Born on the same day as his legendary father, John, Sean is a Libra with Mercury and Pluto in Libra as well. His communication skills are sharp, and with Mars in Gemini in a positive aspect to these three planets, he has the charm that spans cultures, thus increasing his global appeal."

JOHN'S HOROSCOPE:
"What the Stars Know" Circa 1964

"Libra subjects are artistic, pleasure-loving, but also ambitious. They are gay, easy-going and anxious to please other people. They like to be well-thought-of and thus sometimes lack self-confidence. Their highly-sensitive natures cause misunderstandings - jokes about themselves are sometimes taken as personal insult instead of a good rag. They are even-tempered, and when it comes to an argument, more often than not they will give in because they prefer a peaceful life."

John on Sean
"The Playboy Interviews" By David Sheff - 1980

"I think Sean's spirit is...he's traveled a lot, he's with adults a lot. He goes wherever we go. He gets plenty of child companionship as well, which everyone says is so important - 'Well, doesn't he need children?'  No, he'd sooner have his parents any day, as long as we're around."

Sean on John
"Imagine: John Lennon"

"The song 'Beautiful Boy' was written for, or about, me. It was also just a story of a father. It was a father - not particularly John, any father - talking to his son, saying, before you cross the street, take my hand. Don't worry because the monster's not there and you can sleep, there's no turtles under the bed going to eat you up. It was just a beautiful song written about all the things that fathers say to their little boys before they go to sleep."

Yoko on John
Yoko's Speech at the United Nations
for a Worldwide Birthday Celebration
October 9, 1990

Introduction by Marcela Perez de Cuellar, wife of the United Nations' Secretary General:

"Dear Yoko, welcome to this house of peace, the United Nations, which since the end, in 1945, of the most terrible war in history, has kept alive the dream that you and John Lennon cherished, that all the people in the world can live together in tolerance and peace. John would have been 50 years old today. I am pleased that your search for a special place to remember him has brought you here. The world is waiting for your message, Yoko, and for peace."

Yoko to the United Nations special guests - and to the estimated one billion people listening via satellite, from Argentina to the USSR:

"People of the Earth, how are you? How's life been for you? I hope it will get easier and easier for us.Today would have been the 50th birthday of my husband, John Lennon. His spirit still lives in all of us whose lives have been touched by him. I would like us to remember and celebrate his birthday as a day of love because he was a man of love and because love is much needed at this time in our lives.

"We are at the threshold of the 21st Century. Our dreams and aspirations are coming true in a big way in so many directions. Still, life continues to be difficult for most of us. But remember, war is over if you want it. They say the darkest hour is just before the dawn. We face the dawning of the Age of Wisdom through the lingering darkness.

"In celebration of John's life, let's use our power of dreaming. Let's dream of trees growing in abundance, birds flying in clean air, fish swimming in clear water and our children living in joy. Let's dream of men and women feeling good together and embracing each other regardless of their creed and religion. Let's dream of all races praising one another in the knowledge that the differences are what makes the human race. Together we are a whole. Only together we can make it, and we will.

"Bless us all for being alive. Bless us all for knowing what could be. Bless us all for wanting goodness, health and love. Bless us all for forgiving past mistakes. Bless us all for holding the power of unity. And bless us all for keeping our dreams alive, for a dream we dream alone is only a dream, but the dream we dream together is reality.

"Happy birthday, John. The world is wiser today for having shared a time with you."

Yoko's speech to the United Nations was followed immediately by a tape of John from 1980:

"We're a family. There's Yoko and I, we're married and we have a child and we want that child to have a good future. You have the power, you have the vote. Just show your neighbors you're trying to be peaceful however hard it is. It's hard for us all. Just pass the word around; just give it a form. Just have one word, 'Peace' in the window and even if you don't exactly know why you're putting it in the window, it can't harm you. Then you'll come across other people who've put 'Peace' in the window, that we're hoping for peace, that we're all together in this thing. We all want peace, whatever job we have. On a local level you can do a lot you know, you really can. And all we've got to say is, just think of your children. Do you want them to be killed or don't you? And that's the choice we have in front of us, war or peace."

John's words were immediately following by the playing of "Imagine."

(Photo: Yoko and Sean in Japan - early 1980's.)

Yoko on Sean
Liverpool Echo, 1998

"Sean is wonderful. I am very proud of him. Musically, he is very complex, very aware, nowhere near as naive as John and I were. In some ways, he is a lot like his father. When John died, he was a very young boy, and he tried to block it all out, that was his way of coping. Then as he got older, he tried to be all tough and stick up for his independence, make things on his own.

"Then, when I was in the middle of doing the Anthology, there was a home recording of him and John singing together. I played it to him, and all of a sudden he was crying; he was this little boy all over again. He said to me: 'Mum, he was so good.' I think John would have been incredibly proud of how he turned out."

Biographical Material John Filled Out For the Press
circa 1963

JOHN LENNON
Date of Birth: 9th October 1940
Weight: 11-1/2 Stone
Height: 5 feet 11 inches
Colour of eyes: brown
Colour of hair: brown
First professional appearance: club in Liverpool
Likes: music, books, painting, television
Hates: thick heads and traditional jazz

Sean On What John Might Think of His Music
"Rolling Stone" June 11, 1998

"I would just play him my songs; say, 'What do you think of that, man?' I'm sure he would be like, 'That's a great song.' Or, 'That line could be worked on. Why are the drums so loud? The vocals should be more clear.' I'm sure he would have had a million ideas about my music. And you know what? I think he would have liked it, too...I don't think he would have liked the jazz. I really like jazz, Brazilian music, funk. Those are things my dad wasn't into.(laughs) I can imagine him saying, 'Why are you doing this fake jazz shit on your record? What is this crap?' "

Julian on John
"Good Morning America" April 7, 1982  

"I didn't really see him that much in the early years because he was very busy and on tours all the time, but in the later years, I saw him a lot more and we became really great friends after awhile. It was getting better all the time...The years that we saw each other we became closer and closer until the last few years it was virtually every six months or whenever I wanted to go and visit him."

Cynthia, Julian, John

Cynthia on John
Beatles Special Magazine, 1964

"People think of John as their (Beatles) leader, and it's true, he holds a lot of sway over them. That's one thing I admired about him when we were dating. He's so in command at all times...I thought he was the most interesting boy I'd ever met. He was quite serious about his art. He used to tell me he wanted to learn to paint the gorgeous toothy girls used for tooth powder advertisements. He said he could make a lot of money doing it - as much as 50 pounds a week. That was an incredible fortune, I thought."

Sean At School
A Little Story From IK! Magazine, August 1982 By Pam Pritchard

"In May, my friend Terry and I saw Sean at school. We had been sitting across from his school and we both noticed this dark little head at the same time in the third floor window. Then he was joined by three friends. The three of them looking down and out a window was similar to the window at Buckingham Palace scene in 'HELP!'. We waved and they waved and yelled. Sean was tying his shoes to a window shade draw-string! We wondered where the teacher was."

John on John&Yoko's Future Plans -
The Andy Peebles Interview, BBC, December 6, 1980

"You know, people are bitching at us, because we were always doing something; and then they were bitching at us because we weren't doing anything. And I have a funny feeling that it's going to be the other way round again, because we're talking and talking and talking and all sorts of plans and ideas we have in our heads, it's just a matter of getting it done. We already got half the next album, and we'll probably go in just after Christmas and do that. I'm sorry about you people that get fed up of hearing about us, but you know, we like to do it, so it's too bad."

Aunt Mimi on Sean
After Their Meeting in Wirral in January 1984

"Sean is like John in every way - looks and manner, and he has got John's sense of humor. As long as he keeps away from music, he will be all right."

Sean on Publicity
"Rolling Stone" June 11, 1999

"A lot of celebrities complain about the attention they get. My dad and mom said, 'Hey, this is great. We can use this interest to promote these philosophical ideas about world peace.' That's what it's all about. I have all this attention. And instead of complaining about it, I want to use the situation for a positive goal: to get my music out there, to promote open-mindedness, all those things that are important to me."

(Sean, age 15, in USA Today)

Sean on His Heritage
"Rolling Stone" June 11, 1998

"You don't choose your name, you don't choose your parents. You're hurled into this earth, and life hits you like a slap on the ass. Boom, you're born. Now deal with it."

Elliot Mintz on Sean
Instant Karma! Interview, December 1991

"(Sean) is the most well-adjusted and the best of all the Lennons I have ever known. He is , as a person, much more clear, real, down-to-earth than his Dad ever was. He's loving, giving and generous. He has the very best of his Mother and Father's personalities. He is fiercely independent in his ways, in his style and in his thinking, but very kind, giving and real. There is a naturalness and absence of pretention about him and there is a warmth, love and humor that is beyond imagination."

Paul on John -
"Playboy Interview:Paul and Linda McCartney," 1984

"I like collaboration, but the collaboration I had with John -it's difficult to imagine anyone else coming up to that standard. Because he was no slouch, that boy...He was pretty hot stuff, you know. I mean, I can't imagine anybody being there when I go (sings) 'It's getting better all the time.' I just can't imagine anybody who could chime in (sings) 'It couldn't get much worse.' "

John On Making Records
New Musical Express, May 3, 1969

"I'm not really interested in the production of our records. In fact, I wish I didn't have to go through that whole thing, going through the production and balancing the bass and all that. For me, the satisfaction of writing a song is in the performing of it. The production bit is a bore. If some guy would invent a robot to do it, then it would be great. But all that 'get the bass right,get the drums right' - that's a drag to me. All I want to do is get my guitar out and sing songs."

Sean Who?
New York Daily News, circa June, 1992

Columnist Richard Johnson reported about a gig by The Hotheads at a club called The Talkhouse in Amagansett. Lead singer Felicia went from patron to patron in the club holding out her microphone and letting them sing along on Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door." Johnson wrote, "One young man was particularly good, so Felicia asked his name. 'Sean,' he replied. 'Sean who?' she asked. 'Sean Lennon.' 'The place just broke out,' says drummer Kevin Dooley. Then the band started playing Jimi Hendrix's 'Little Wing' and guitarist Mark Bosch handed over his Fender Stratocaster (to Sean). 'He was great,' Dooley reports. 'The guy can really play.'

Pete Shotton on John
(Childhood Friend Who Wrote the Book, "John Lennon In My Life")
Commenting in "Family Weekly" - November 27, 1983

"When he was 5 years old, he was 80 in his head. He was smarter than most of the others, and of course, this is the reason that parents, mine included, didn't like John Lennon. He could see through their garbage."

John On Being Sean's Father
From "NOW" Interview with Lisa Robinson

"It's like anything, what you put in, you get out. I'd get all those little moments with him, those little quiet moments when he'd do something for the first time or express something clearly with a whole sentence. It's a feeling of accomplishment."

Julia Baird on John
Excerpt from "John Lennon: My Brother"

"He chatted on to me for hours about what it was like being a father again, a real one this time, he hoped. It was all proud talk about sleepless nights and feeding times, Sean's first smile and watching him grow. He was always patting himself on the back, telling me I'd no idea how worn out he was seeing to the baby.

"'I've been there before,' I told him and we had a great laugh when he realized how over-the-top he was being. He loved walking Sean in his pram in Central Park and glowed with pride about his son. He didn't want to miss a single moment of Sean's development."

Sean On John
When asked What Had Struck Him As Being the Essence
of his Relationship with His Dad After Seeing The "Imagine" Movie.
September 14, 1988

"Footage of just me and my Father - I'd always sit on his lap - just being together, because that was what it was like. We would always be together. It takes a lot of guts or feeling towards your child to just completely drop out of a career, you know, a pretty successful career, and just drop it and become a househusband. I just knew he was there, knew he was my father and knew that I loved him."

Yoko On the J&Y Love Affair
New York Post, October 7, 1988

"We thought our love was the most important thing. We wanted to be together all the time. That was the sweet part, that love came first. The kind of thing we dealt with was bigger than both of us. We wanted to help bring world peace, to help people understand the power of love and that we are all one people. It was convenient that we were male and female and became one person with two heads rather than one, four hands rather than two."