Sean Ono Lennon on Celebrating John Lennon’s Underrated ‘Mind Games’ With New Mixes and Deluxe Editions: ‘I Wanted to Represent It in a Way That Gave It a Second Chance’
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When Sean Ono Lennon — born to John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1975 — was being exposed to his father’s solo canon as a young person, he was hearing it all at once, not sequentially.
So he was hearing 1973’s “Mind Games” as one fine album among many, with no need to learn that it was actually an underdog in his dad’s catalog.
Cut to 2024, when he is hoping that the Lennon-loving world can evaluate, or reevaluate, “Mind Games” with more of the mindset that he had growing up with it, sans any need to compare it to the ordained classics … or with a mind toward thinking that, heard afresh, maybe it doesn’t suffer in being stacked up against the pillars of the catalog.
Sean has overseen “Ultimate” remixes of the “Mind Games” tracks, in the tradition of what was already done for the “Plastic Ono Band” and “Imagine” albums in recent years.
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