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Despite his last name, John Lennonson Julian Lennon want to make it clear that he rarely has the inside scoop on The Beatles.
“I’m not part of the inner circle – I never have been,” Julian, 61, shared in an interview with The Guardian published Sunday, January 5, . “You have to realize that when dad left, when I was between 3 and 5, it was just mum and me, and we had nothing to do with the Beatles or dad.”
When the new Beatles documentaries and projects are releasedJulian said, “It’s news to me half the time.”
“I visited him a few times,” Julian continued about his father. “But we were largely on the outside.”
Julian Lennon.
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John and his first wife Cynthia Lennon were married between 1962 and 1968. During their relationship, the couple welcomed Julian who has gone on to become a singer, writer and photographer.
John later married Yoko Ono and Sean Ono welcomed Lennon in 1975. The Beatles member died five years later aged 40.
“I’m thankful that Sean and I get on like a house on fire – we’re best friends, and he tells me what he can, but things are pretty secretive in the Beatles,” Julian shared in his latest interview. “(It feels) really weird, but I’m not upset about it. I’d rather be excited and impressed by what they’ve done and continue to do.”
In recent years, The Beatles have been the subject of a number of documentaries including Martin Scorsese‘s Beatles ’64which premiered in November 2024.
Although he may not have been close to his father, Julian is still interested in what John and his bandmates have achieved.
“As a fan, I’m just as curious as anyone else,” he said. “Even though I find myself going, ‘How can there be another Beatles film?'”
Although Julian has found success as a Grammy nominated singer and songwriter, he is now turning his focus to fine art photography with a new book titled Life’s Fragile Moments.
After 55 years, Julian Lennon has made peace with “Hey Jude.” Julian, 60, recently spoke about the song Paul McCartney wrote to comfort him while his parents, John Lennon and Cynthia Lennon (née Powell), were divorced. “At first it was ‘Hey Jules’, but that didn’t sit very rhythmically,” Julian told Esquire (…)
The body of work spans more than 20 years of work and includes photographs taken while traveling the world for his charity, The White Feather Foundation.
When asked where he gets his positivity and optimism, Julian credited his mother for how she dealt with life’s troubles.
“Watching how she handled what she was dealt with was love and grace and positivity,” he explained. “I saw that it was the only way forward. You take the high road, you are the better person and try to learn from all the crap that is thrown at you. Without a doubt, I’ve had my moments of depression and I still deal with some very serious anxiety from time to time, but the only way is to push yourself through. Wallowing is no good – been there, done that. “
