Lennon appears to have made a sort of peace with himself. Lennon could have leveled against his out-of-line fan.īut if "Friendly Fire" is an act of public therapy - the album comes with an elaborate suite of music videos directed by Michele Civetta, featuring a stylish cast that pointedly includes Ms. Lennon sings in the incongruously sweet chorus of "Dead Meat." The same sentiments suffuse the album's connotative title track, which has another accusation ("You launched the assault, with the first cannonball") that Mr. So there's guilt and anguish as well as resentment in a lyric like "you're going to get what you deserve," which Mr. Lennon had not reconciled with his friend before the motorcycle accident that claimed his life last year. There had been a secret affair between Ms. Lennon's life: chiefly, the end of his relationship with Bijou Phillips, another famous product of rock 'n' roll parentage, and the death of Max LeRoy, his lifelong friend. And like most everything on the album, it's a bittersweet meditation on love and loss inspired by recent events in Mr. Lennon's first solo album in eight years. "Dead Meat" is the opening track on "Friendly Fire" (Capitol), Mr. The people in the crowd laughed gratefully, though most of them probably knew the real provenance of the tune. Then, pointing toward the chastised fan, with a slight smile: "It's dedicated to this guy." The next song in the set would be "Dead Meat," he said. Lennon that he moved on quickly, disarming the tension with wryness. (He made no mention of the recent news of alleged death threats by his mother's former driver.
Lennon, whose irritation was more than justified as the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, he knows a thing or two about intrusive behavior. But not before a stern admonishment from Mr. A hand was raised, an apology was mumbled, and the show went on. It happened after someone in the audience tossed a clunky object onstage - some kind of offering apparently made of aluminum, with ill-advised sharp corners - and it sailed perilously close to the head of Yuka Honda, Mr. Several songs into his sold-out concert at the Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night, Sean Lennon let his temper flare.
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