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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’


Sean Ono Lennon talks about revisiting his dad John Lennon's most underrated album, 1973's 'Mind Games,' for 'Ultimate' remixes and a new boxed set.

Variety spoke with Sean Ono Lennon on Friday, as these different “Mind Games” sets were being released to the world, and to a mostly thrilled reaction among fans — some of whom have waited 51 years for this album to really be celebrated, instead of just half-remembered as a nice-enough also-ran in a brilliant career. Combined with the fact that John and Yoko had done “Two Virgins” and were doing performance art and avant-garde, conceptual happenings and stuff, I think it confused a lot of the mainstream fans — the normies, as we would call them today. The music itself can exist in streaming form, but the fact is, sometimes it takes a physical object — especially if there is something like an extensive hardback book involved — to get us to sit down and focus on the work for an extended period of time and stay in that headspace.

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