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JULIAN LENNON
John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963), known universally as Julian Lennon, and by some fans as Jude, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and first son of Beatle John Lennon and the only child of Lennon's first wife Cynthia Lennon. His godfather was Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. His father's nickname for him was "JCJ", and he was named after John Lennon's late mother, Julia.
Lennon was born in Liverpool, England. For a brief time John Lennon concealed the fact he was married and had a child, in keeping with the conventional wisdom of the era that female teenage fans would not be as enamoured of married male pop stars. However, when the British media discovered that Lennon was a married father, it did not affect his popularity with fans.
Julian Lennon attended the set of The Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour, and made his musical debut at age 11 on his father's album Walls and Bridges playing drums on Ya-Ya.
John Lennon "Ya Ya" featuring his son, Julian Lennon, on drums. (1:00 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=__fe3QEJeWc
Julian Lennon with his father and Yoko Ono.
Julian Lennon's parents divorced when he was five. He had almost no contact with his father after the divorce, and only began to rebuild a relationship with him in the late 1970's, at the instigation of Lennon's then girlfriend May Pang. His father's murder in 1980 (when Julian was 17) came just when the two were beginning to grow closer. He and his half-brother Sean Lennon (John's child with Yoko Ono) have a renewed relationship, spending time together on Sean's tour in 2007.
Sean Ono Lennon February 2007 Tour Photos by Julian Lennon.
seanonolennon.com/photos/tour/julian/gallery.htm
Julian Lennon with half-brother Sean Ono Lennon.
As a child, Julian directly inspired the title of one of his father's most famous songs, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, whose lyrics describe a picture Julian drew, a water colour painting of a girl (a classmate named Lucy) surrounded by stars. Later, Paul McCartney wrote Hey Jude as a way of consoling him because of his parents' divorce. Hey Jude was meant to be Hey Jules, but McCartney changed the name because he thought Jude was an easier name to sing.
Julian pictured with his father and Paul McCartney.
The Beatles "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." (3:28 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ88aoVU4fE
The Beatles "Hey Jude." (6:32 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWp4Up6ixI
CBS Night Watch with Julian Lennon and Paul McCartney in 1985.
Paul McCartney talks about his relationship with John Lennon. (8:35 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML87bYIGJiE
Julian said of his father, "I've never really wanted to know the truth about how dad was with me. There was some very negative stuff talked about me ... like when he said I'd come out of a whiskey bottle on a Saturday night. Stuff like that. You think, where's the love in that? Paul and I used to hang about quite a bit ... more than Dad and I did. We had a great friendship going and there seems to be far more pictures of me and Paul playing together at that age than there are pictures of me and my dad."
Julian and his mother Cynthia in 1984 and during the LOVE premiere in Las Vegas, Nevada in June 2006.
CAREER
Julian Lennon has had an inconsistent career as a musical artist. He enjoyed immediate success with his debut 1984 album Valotte with two top-10 singles in Too Late for Goodbyes and Valotte. His second album, 1986's The Secret Value of Daydreaming was panned by critics, but reached #32 on the Billboard 200. Lennon never reached the same level of success in the U.S. post-Valotte, but he hit #5 in Australia with the 1989 single Now You're In Heaven. Two years later, Salt water reached #6 in the UK and topped the Australian singles charts for four weeks. After 1991, Lennon left the music business for several years. He took interests in cooking, sailing, and sculpting during his leave from the music industry.
Julian Lennon sings, "Too Late for Goodbyes." High Quality Audio. (3:28 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYNv23n5EPM
Julian Lennon sings "Too Late for Goodbyes." Extended Version. (6:02 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lafq8ZWFme8
Julian Lennon sings "Valotte." High Quality Audio. (4:15 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP4YHXnft1w
Julian Lennon sings, "Now You're In Heaven," on The Johnny Carson Show. (3:43 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDPAcmCsSw
Julian Lennon sings "Mother Mary" on The Johnny Carson Show. (4:54 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeYZrIUPjCM
Julian Lennon sings "Salt water" on the Dutch TV show "Countdown" in 1991.
There is also an interview about the song. (7:46 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e87dLXuviJQ
Julian Lennon sings "Salt water" (original video). (3:53 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWKl1QJed0
Salt water (Lyrics by Julian Lennon)
We are a rock revolving
Around a golden sun
We are a billion children
Rolled into one
So when I hear about
The hole in the sky
Salt water wells in my eyes
We climb the highest mountain
Well make the desert bloom
We're so ingenious
We can walk on the moon
But when I hear of how
The forests have died
Salt water wells in my eyes
I have lived for love
But now that's not enough
For the world I love is dying
(and now I'm crying)
And time is not a friend
(no friend of mine)
As friends were out of time
And its slowly passing by..yyy...yyy...yyy
Right before our eyes
We light the deepest ocean
Send photographs of mars
We're so enchanted by
How clever we are
Why should one baby
Feel so hungry she cries
Salt water wells in my eyes
I have lived for love
But now that's not enough
For the world I love is dying
(and now I'm crying)
And time is not a friend
(no friend of mine)
As friends were out of time
And its slowly passing by..yyy...yyy...yyy
Right before our eyes
We are a rock revolving
Around a golden sun
We are a billion children
Rolled into one
What will I think of me
The day that I die
Salt water wells in my eyes
Salt water wells in my eyes
Lennon's debut album Valotte was produced by Phil Ramone, who also produced albums for artist Billy Joel. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1985, and produced two top ten hits, the title track Valotte, and Too Late For Goodbyes. Lennon promoted Valotte with music videos for the two hits made by legendary movie director Sam Peckinpah and producer Martin Lewis. Lennon's first-ever tour in the spring of 1985 was documented as part of the film Stand By Me: A Portrait Of Julian Lennon — a film profile started by Peckinpah but directed by producer Martin Lewis after Peckinpah's death. The song Valotte has remained a staple on adult contemporary radio stations since its release.
McCartney and his late wife Linda visited him in 1974 to take photographs of him for John Lennon. When Julian released Valotte, Paul sent him a telegram wishing him good luck. In 1984, the two met up backstage at the New York studios of the TV show Friday Night Videos. In 1991, George Harrison and Dennis Tarczynski played on Lennon's album Help Yourself but were not directly credited. He also recorded the song Because, which was made famous by The Dave Clark Five, in England for Clark's 1986 musical, Time (The single is out-of-print).
Julian Lennon sings "Because." (4:00 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=51gaEs1SJ_8
After he began his performing career there was occasionally unfounded media speculation that Lennon would undertake performances with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. However, in the Beatles Anthology series in 1996, the three surviving Beatles confirmed that there was never an idea of using Julian Lennon as part of a Beatles reunion, with McCartney saying "why would we want to subject him to all of this?" Lennon has been seen in several films including The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996, but shot in 1968), Cannes Man (1996), Imagine: John Lennon (1988), and Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987). Julian provided the voice for the title role in the animated David Copperfield (1993).
Julian Lennon interview on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1989. Part 1. (8:35 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZG4SznWSI
Julian Lennon sings "You're The One" and "I Get Up"
on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1989. Part 2. (8:49 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXF7-B9aeh8
Julian Lennon sings "I Get Up" on The David Letterman Show. (5:25 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=upm6nczRMEo
September 1, 1999 Retro Rewind interview with Julian Lennon. Dave Harris talks with
Julian Lennon about events leading up to the writing of his album "Photograph Smile,"
how the music industry has treated him and living with the legacy of his late father,
John Lennon. Part 1 of 3. (9:31 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCCfDOiTUDU
September 1, 1999 Retro Rewind interview with Julian Lennon. David Harris talks more
with Julian Lennon about his album "Photograph Smile." Part 2 of 3. (9:00 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxu7IIqlaMY
September 1, 1999 Retro Rewind interview with Julian Lennon. Dave Harris talks with
Julian Lennon about some tracks off "Photograph Smile" and also his thoughts on the
Beatle tune "Free As A Bird", which used a lost vocal from his late father, John Lennon.
Part 3 of 3. (8:47 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGnzOKzdN8
In 2002, Lennon recorded a version of the Beatles' classic When I'm Sixty-Four, a song from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band primarily written and sung by McCartney (although as was customary on all Beatles compositions of either author, John Lennon was credited as co-writer), for an Allstate Insurance commercial. Lennon's performance of the song was reminiscent of McCartney's vaudevillian delivery on the original.
Julian Lennon sings "When I'm Sixty-Four" for a 2002 All State Insurance commerical. (1:01 minutes)
His official website is currently undergoing reconstruction intended to coincide with the release of his new album, Conscious. Julian also has an official MySpace profile, where early mixes of three new songs and a re-recorded version of Salthingyer are available for listening.
Julian Lennon Official Website.
www.julianlennon.com/
"Everything Changes" (Rough Mix), "Disconnected," and "Looking 4 Luv" are available for listening.
The videos "I Don't Wanna Know," "Help Yourself," "Salthingyer," "Now You're In Heaven," and the
"Whale Dreamers" Trailer are available for viewing on Julian Lennon's MySpace website.
www.myspace.com/julianlennon
Julian Lennon is also the producer of the documentary called Whale Dreamers about an aboriginal tribe and its special relationship to the whales. It also touches on many environmental issues. This film has received many awards and was shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
Julian Lennon's "Whale Dreamers" movie trailer. (2:00 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcfKOVOCtWo
Julain Lennon Presents "Whale Dreamers." (1:21 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pMK78lGUuc
"Whale Dreamers" World Premiere. (2:19 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbbJCgpwfMg
2008 Retro Rewind interview with Julian Lennon. Dave Harris interviews Julian Lennon
about his new movie project, "Whale Dreamers." Part 1 of 3. (8:20 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhJ9avL6_jY
2008 Retro Rewind interview with Julian Lennon. David Harris continues to
interview Julian Lennon about "Whale Dreamers." Part 2 of 3. (8:59 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpE_gygn00s
2008 Retro Rewind interview with Julian Lennon. Dave Harris talks to Julian Lennon
about his upcoming "Whale Dreamers" album release. Part 3 of 3. (8:24 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhdMhtZ4rk
"Whale Dreamers" Official Website. See listing of numerous worldwide awards received for the film.
whaledreamers.com/media.html
Julian Lennon receives the Environmental Award at the 2008 Better World Award in Monaco presented to him by Prince Albert
on May 23, 2008 at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, Monaco. Photos of the event may be viewed on PDF format.
www.lesfab400mc.com/index.html
Video of Julian Lennon receiving the 2008 Environmental Award from Prince Albert of Monaco.
www.lesfab400mc.com/reel.html
He has also ventured into Internet businesses including www.MyStore.com with Bebo founder Michael Birch.
Julian Lennon's MyStore Website.
www.mystore.com/index.php?ID=978 or
www.mystore.com/julianlennon
1999 Julian Lennon interview about his father. (7:53 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6eV7ZsghCs
ALBUMS
Valotte (1984) # 20 U.K, #17 U.S.Platinum
The Secret Value of Daydreaming (1986) #32 U.S.Gold
Mr. Jordan (1989) #87 U.S.
Help Yourself (1991)
Photograph Smile (1998) #70 Japan
VH-1 Behind the Music - Julian Lennon (2001)
Conscious (working title) - Release Date TBD (2008) - Go to Julian's MySpace profile for details.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lennon
