As every Beatles nut knows, yesterday was John Lennon’s birthday – he would have been 84. So it’s probably an appropriate day for his son, Sean Ono Lennon, to announce a groovy, rather opulent new edition of his 1973 album Mind Games.
Lennon (who shares a birthday with his old man; he turned 49 yesterday) has teamed with the Swedish tech firm Teenage Engineering to launch the Mind Games limited edition OB-4. This is a custom-made bluetooth speaker and radio with a two-hour loop recording function that allows you to rewind, time-stretch and loop live radio. But this edition includes design inspired by the artwork of the Mind Games album – which, as fans know, features a mini Lennon on a beach overshadowed by a Yoko-mountain.
