Lennon didn't want to be a Beatle

John Lennon “resented having to be a Beatle” in the years after the band split, according to his son Sean Ono Lennon.

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Speaking about the time around the One To One concerts in New York in 1972, which Lennon performed with his wife Yoko Ono, their son told BBC Radio 6 Music: “I think he'd fallen out of love with having to be a part of a machinery, of a pop machine, you know.