Sean Lennon was born on October 9,1975 to John and Yoko Lennon. Sean was born on his fathers 35th birthday. John Lennon decided to leave the music business to become a house dad. Doting his son until his death in December 8,1980. Sean remember his fathers shooting. John was shot sa pamamagitan ng a deranged tagahanga outside the Dakota, an apartment building in Manhattan where the Lennons lived.

"I remember when my dad died," Sean told New York Magazine in 1998. "You don't really miss anything specific. You just miss them breathing, just being there. I miss the way his skin felt, the sound of his voice. Him tucking me in at night."