Sean Lennon interviews his mom, Yoko Ono.
Originally aired November 26, 2010, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Sean Lennon interviews his mom, Yoko Ono.
Originally aired November 26, 2010, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Yoko: Well, probably, but you know the thing is, my mother was a beautiful, beautiful woman from a very rich family, and my father, that just upset him, you know?
Sean: So he felt sort of, insecure a little bit?
Yoko: But you know what happened? So my mother didn’t mean it badly, but, a chauffeur would take him to the bank every morning. He said ”I don’t want to do that because they’re going to see me, in the Rolls Royce.”
Sean: That’s so funny because remember I would really be upset when you would make me go to school in a limo.
Yoko: Yeah yeah yeah, I know. So the thing is, he insisted that the car would stop two blocks from the bank.
Sean: That’s exactly what I did remember?
Yoko: And he walked…
Sean: Wait, but do you remember, I would make the, well maybe you don’t know but I used to make the limo driver stop two blocks from my school so I could walk to school because everyone else took the bus, and you wouldn’t let me take the bus. Because it was a dangerous time —
Yoko: Dangerous time.
Sean: –a lot of people trying to like kidnap me and stuff.
Yoko: I know.
Sean: But it’s just funny that I had the exact same experience.
Yoko: Isn’t it amazing? So it’s probably kind of like a DNA memory or something. Isn’t that interesting?
Sean: Yeah. Well, that was a really fun talk mom, thank you so much. I wish more interviews were like that.
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