Sean Lennon Is Defending Yoko Ono’s Decision To Allow A Car Company To Use John Lennon’s Image In A Commercial
Over in Europe, there’s car commercial . . . for a French company called Citroen . . . which features some footage of JOHN LENNON talking about “creative invention.”
YOKO ONO signed off on his image and words to be used in the ad . . . and apparently, she’s been receiving a TON of backlash from BEATLES fans about it.
But 34-year-old SEAN LENNON, is defending his mother’s decision . . . sort of.
On Twitter, he said, quote, “She did not do it for money. [It] has to do [with] hoping to keep dad in public consciousness. No new LPs, so TV ad is exposure to young.
“You’d be shocked how many 14-year-olds have no idea what so ever who he is. I’m serious. You wouldn’t believe how many teenagers ask me who the Beatles were.
“Having just seen ad I realize why people are mad. But intention was not financial, was simply wanting to keep him out there in the world. I’m not defending the ad. I’m explaining it. I only saw the ad for the first time few days ago.”
You can watch the ad below
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March 5th, 2010 at 11:01 am
What Sean said was right. Nothing wrong with the commercial.
March 5th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
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