Hello and welcome once again to Sde Jerker on songwriting.

It's Brian and Simon here and joining us this time round is a British American musician, songwriter and producer,

who's enjoyed a wildly eclected career spanning three decades and counting.

This prolific, multi-talented and intensely collaborative fellow has worked with the likes of Lady Gargar,

Lenny Kravitz, Lana Del Rey, the Lemon Twigs, Marianne Faithful, Albert Hammond Jr. and Mark Ronson, to name just a few. Along with Primus's bass-wielding frontman Les Claypool, he's also one half of psychedelic progrock duo The Claypool Lennon Delirium, and their third studio album, Snappily titled The Great Parrot Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, dropped just a couple of weeks ago. A sprawling sci-fi concept LP about the ominous rise of AI with a company in comic book. It's an incredibly entertaining, not to mention, deeply thought-provoking piece of work. And to talk about the creative process behind it, we're super excited to welcome the excellent

Sean Ono Lennon to the show. Sean was born in 1975 in New York City to John Lennon and

Yoko Ono, you may have heard of them, on his father's 35th birthday. Perhaps unsurprisingly,

he felt a deep connection to music from a young age, but it was only in the years following

his dad's death when Sean was only five that he gravitated towards playing guitar as a way of staying

connected to him. Meanwhile, his mum introduced him to classical and avant-garde composers.

From the age of 12, he attended a Swiss boarding school and later enrolled at Columbia

University to study anthropology, but dropped out after a year to pursue a music career.

He kicked things off by appearing on Yoko's 1995 album Rising. In the late 90s, while Sean was playing bass in Chibo

Mattoe, the Beastie Boys Adam Yowk signed him to his label Grand Royal Records, via which he

released the charming 1998 debut LP into the Sun. His hugely underrated sophomore effort,

the self-produced friendly fire, arrived in 2006. Together with his partner, Charlotte Kemp Mule,

Sean formed the psych-pop combo The Ghost of a Sabretooth Tiger in 2008, and their recorded

output over the next few years included 2014's critically acclaimed Midnight's Sun.

During the same period, Sean joined his mother in a new incarnation of the Plasticono band,

as well as making his first forays into composing for film. More recently, he's collaborated

with John Zorn and Laurie Anderson in an improvisational trio, and in 2024, dropped his third

solo effort, the experimental instrumental record

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