Found in the Inbox: Ken Lintern Writes Epitaph as a Message to His Children

Epitaph is a direct title for a song whose purpose, according to Ken Lintern’s own release notes, is to encourage celebration rather than mourning. Written after illness, with continuing effects, the recording was conceived as a message to his children: an account of a life lived in pursuit of its goals, and an invitation for them to keep pursuing their own.

That context asks for careful attention without turning a personal experience into spectacle. The supplied notes describe a writer wanting his family to recognise what he has accomplished and to hold onto their own ambitions. The image behind that advice is simple: even when the stars remain beyond reach, the act of reaching still matters. It is a statement about continuing effort, expressed within a song addressed first to people close to him.

Released on August 1, 2025 through 13 Records UK, Epitaph was promoted as symphonic rock. The clean recording runs three minutes and twenty-five seconds, and the campaign includes an official video. This is an archive discovery, revisited in October 2026, rather than a report about a forthcoming single or a fresh account of Lintern’s health.

The Weston-super-Mare songwriter brings a long professional history to this material. His campaign biography describes retirement from live performance while continuing to write and release recordings. It also identifies his work at 13 Sound Studio in North Somerset, where he arranges music for other artists and plays keyboards on their sessions. At the time of the mailout, the biography put his recorded catalogue at more than two hundred songs.

Those details give the personal message another dimension. Epitaph comes from someone whose relationship with music includes the steady work of recording, arranging and helping other people finish their songs. In that context, the wish to pass on encouragement is connected to a career built through repeated acts of making. The catalogue is evidence of the working life surrounding the single, rather than a substitute for its individual story.

The title can suggest a closing statement, but the intention described in the notes points toward the people who will carry on. Lintern’s message asks his children to value their own goals as well as the life behind them. The official video offers a route into that recording and its perspective. Readers can follow it below, approaching Epitaph as an artist’s personal communication rather than assuming that one release can tell the whole story of a person’s life.

Watch the official video.

Campaign information and promotional image supplied by Round The Clock PR.

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