Partnership between Sean Ono Lennon, James McCartney and Zak Starkey generates psychedelic track that runs away from comparisons with the parents’ band
Three direct heirs of the legacy of Beatles They met for a new musical collaboration, but, according to them, any resemblance to the Liverpool band is pure coincidence. Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney joined the drummer Zak Starkey (Son of Ringo Starr) In the track “Rip-off”launched by the band Starkey, Mantra of the Cosmos.
The group, formed in 2023, mixes weight names of British rock as Andy Bell (ex-Oasis) and the members of the Happy Mondays, Shaun Ryder and Bez. The project bets on a psychedelic and free sound, and has already been attended by Noel Gallagher in the previous single, “Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous)”.
Starkey shared an extensive stretch of “Rip-off” in your Instagramaccompanied by images of the band and the Beatles. The text that appears in the video emphasizes that the goal of the song is not to reproduce the sound of the past, a statement that the drummer reinforced in an interview with The Telegraph:
No, it doesn’t sound like a song from Beatles… It’s the sound of Mantra of the Cosmosonly with them together. AND Sean of Cosmos, James of Cosmos… But it is still my band. ”
The rejection of the idea of a “supergroup of children of Beatles”It is not new. When a photo of Zak and Sean Together circulated on the networks in 2023, fans speculated about a possible parents inspired by parents. Starkey reacted with irony:
If we had spent three years sleeping in flea -infested mattresses at the back of a club in Hamburg, there may be chemistry. But we were raised in homes so big that it is too far to make a toast, get it?
“Rip-off” marks the second recent collaboration between Lennon and McCartney Jr. In April last year, they launched the delicate “Primrose Hill”an acoustic ballad written by four hands and interpreted by James. The cover of the single brings an image of the London Park that names the track.
About that, Zak Starkey It has also been news for a possible dismissal of the band The Whowith whom it has been playing since 1996. Although the musician himself suggested leaving in April, Pete Townshend publicly denied any breakup.
Listen, and see, “Domino Bones”:
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Source: Rollingstone
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