Sean Lennon and partner Charlotte Kemp Muhl in Vanity Fair.

Excerpts:

He’s now ready to test the spotlight again. Autumn brings his 35th birthday—on October 9, a birth date he shares with his father, who would have been 70 this year—and the release of Acoustic Sessions, the first album by the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Sean’s two-person band with Charlotte Kemp Muhl, a 23-year-old model with luminous porcelain skin and such pillowy lips she could be the offspring of Mick Jagger and Angelina Jolie. In a collaboration so enmeshed it recalls the epic mind meld of John and Yoko, Charlotte is Sean’s girlfriend, writing partner, and fellow musician, singing intricate harmonies and playing everything from accordion and glockenspiel to acoustic bass, banjo, piano, cello, vibraphone, recorder, melodica, and shakers on the album. Even the band’s name was Charlotte’s creation—the title of a play she wrote when she was seven. The couple met five years ago at California’s Coachella music festival. “I had a premonition,” Sean recalls. “I saw her and whispered to my friend, ‘I really think that girl is going to be my girlfriend.’ ”

But he didn’t anticipate that Charlotte would also become his McCartney. “I never realized how great it was for Dad to have Paul as a writing partner,” Sean says. “I used to write very simply and autobiographically; it was like slitting my wrists and letting it all pour out. With Charlotte, it feels more like an intellectual game in which we’re both having fun. It’s like intellectual tennis.”

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And yet the true nature of their partnership makes that image as misleading as any stereotype that casts Charlotte as a bimbo riding the coattails of the super-rich rock spawn. “People assume she’s with me for the wrong reasons,” Sean says. “They don’t realize she makes more money than I do.”

“I’m his sugar mama,” Charlotte says with a Cheshire-cat grin.

Read it, VF’s writing is impeccable as usual.