Relating to getting the within scoop on The Beatles, Julian Lennon is rather like the remainder of us — it’s all a magical thriller to him.
The 61-year-old firstborn son of the late John Lennon admits that he’s not aware about any new exercise by the Fab 4, who’re nonetheless making strikes — and large cash — six a long time after they made their debut.
“It’s news to me half the time. I’m not part of the inner circle – I never have been,” Lennon informed The Guardian.
“You have to realize that when Dad left, when I was between 3 and 5 (it was a bit of a process), it was just mum and me, and we had nothing to do with The Beatles or Dad,” defined the singer, whose mom was John’s first spouse, Cynthia.
“I visited him on the odd occasion but we were very much on the outside. I’m thankful that Sean [Lennon, John’s son with second wife Yoko Ono] and I get on like a house on fire – we’re best buddies and he tells me what he can, but things are pretty secret on the Beatles front,” he added.
The current Beatles resurgence has included documentaries equivalent to 2021’s “Get Back” and 2024’s “Beatles ’64” — directed by Peter Jackson and produced by Martin Scorsese, respectively — in addition to a restored model of 1970’s “Let It Be.” To not point out the Fab 4’s 2023 comeback single “Now and Then,” which is up for Document of the 12 months on the Grammys on Feb. 2.
However Lennon has been at midnight about all of it.
“[It’s] extraordinarily strange but I’m not upset about it,” he mentioned. “I’d rather be excited and impressed by what they did and continue to do. As a fan, I’m just as curious as anybody else, although I do find myself going, ‘How is it possible that there’s another Beatles film?’”
Lennon — who has a brand new espresso desk e-book, “Life’s Fragile Moments,” that includes his pictures work — has battled to step out of his father’s shadow since releasing his debut album, “Valotte,” in 1984.
“It had always been, ‘John Lennon’s son, John Lennon’s son,’ and I’m going, ‘for F’s sake,’” he mentioned. “I said, what I need to do for me, first and foremost, is to build up a body of work, a foundation that I can stand on, that nobody can take away from me. And I continue to do so.”
“It’s not to show off, it’s just to prove to myself that I can actually do this stuff. I’m not interested in fighting other people’s opinions,” Lennon added.
In 2020, the singer-songwriter — who was truly born John Charles Julian Lennon — legally modified his identify to Julian Charles John Lennon.
“I’d always take an issue with that, because I’d always been known as Julian — first and foremost to my mum,” he informed The Put up in 2022.
“And I used to get a lot of crap for [being named John] at airport security. People would look at my passport, maybe not recognize me, and go, ‘John Lennon — ha, ha, that’s funny,’” Lennon mentioned. “After over 30-40 years of publicly having to deal with that … I just went, ‘You know what? I want to be Julian, I want to be me for F sake.’”
However his final album, 2022’s “Jude,” was certainly a reference to “Hey Jude,” the 1968 No. 1 hit by The Beatles. Paul McCartney initially wrote the tune “Hey Jules” — a reference to Julian’s nickname — to consolation John’s younger son after his father left his mom for Ono.
Lennon just lately underwent emergency surgical procedure after a second pores and skin most cancers scare, however was given the “all clear” simply earlier than the brand new 12 months.
“Beyond Thankful for everything!” he wrote on Instagram. “Here’s to a Happy & Healthy 2025.”
