Watching the Wheels

Occasionally there are connections which throw up unexpected emotions.I was sorry I missed seeing Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl as Ghosts of Sabre Tooth Tigers last year in Manchester. My lovely photographer friend Melanie Smith took some great photos which she shares on her Mudkiss website. It brought back memories of John Lennon and my awareness of Sean as a longed for child for John and Yoko, an awareness only supported by the media coverage of the time and the album Double Fantasy. When I lived in Morocco I had a borrowed cassette player and a few cassettes to listen to. Stevie Wonder's Hotter Than July, Bowie's Scary Monsters, an NME compilation featuring Scritti Politti, and John and Yoko's wonderful Double Fantasy. Whilst I was living there John Lennon was shot. No online news in those days, just a rumour at the language school one evening, confirmed by an English newspaper the next day. Having listened to Beautiful Boy, my heart went out to him. I follow GOSTT on Facebook and to my surprise I have discovered that they have been shooting a new video in Sheffield this Bank Holiday weekend, in a run down cinema so well known to me, in the area of Sheffield where I used to live, where my son lived for many years, where my former husband still lives. For some reason it seems so strange that the child I thought so much about back in those Double Fantasy days should be in such a familiar neighbourhood in Sheffield. I could never have made that connection all those years ago in Casablanca.