Sean Lennon Comes Together With Aerosmith at MSG

Most New Yorkers have a special relationship with Madison Square Garden, but Beatles spawn Sean Lennon’s connection to the “World’s Greatest Arena” goes a step further. In a story recounted by Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411, when John Lennon shocked the world and Elton John by making a rare live appearance to perform with Elton at MSG on Thanksgiving Weekend in 1974 The Beatle was separated from Yoko Ono. Ono sent her husband a white gardenia backstage leading to their reconciliation and shortly thereafter to the procreation of Sean. Without that night in 1974, it’s possible Sean Lennon wouldn’t be here so between that and the fact that John Lennon played his last public gig at MSG, Sean’s relationship with the venue is deep.

Last night at the Garden Aerosmith welcomed Sean to the Garden stage to perform on one of his father’s classic songs – Come Together – a song they had a hit with in 1978. In over a decade of seeing Sean play with a variety of bands, we’ve never seen him so alive and into it. Check this out…

Aerosmith w/ Sean Lennon – Come Together

Here’s how it happened via Friedman’s article

Sean and his girlfriend Charlotte had come to the Garden on a last minute invite from Liv Tyler, Steven Tyler’s daughter with Bebe Buell. No one had thought of the date or the meaning, and Sean had no intention on his way downtown to the Garden of playing with Aerosmith. But Tyler suggested it when he arrived, since Aerosmith had had a hit with “Come Together” years ago. Sean took to the stage with disarming confidence, and walked right into the number. The audience went wild.

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