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We gave Dhani Harrison his own page on Magical Mystery Tour, so we've decided to give Julian his own page here! Some of the pictures are from 45 sleeves that my wonderful grandparents found in their closet with beautiful WORKING 45's in them! My grandma used to LOVE Julian! First let's start off with things I (Snappy Harrison) want to say! I LOVE JULIAN LENNON! ok...I had to get that out in the open! haha! Any road my favorite songs would have to be in his earlier days...things like "Valotte" ,"Jesse" (that would have to be my all-time favorite!), "Say You're Wrong", and "Too Late For Goodbyes" and you can bet that I have the videos for all the above plus live performances of all and including"Saltwater"!  For those of you that don't know the connection between Julian Lennon and the song "Hey Jude"...Paul wrote the song for/about Juilan when his parents John and Cynthia were splitting up. Here are some things julian had to say about Macca!  "It's hard to imagine this man was thinking about me and my life so much that he wrote a song about me. It's an honour knowing that someone was worried about your well-being and how you were going to grow up. If I'm in a bar and the song comes on the radio, I still get goose pimples." |
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"If I was gonna write again I had to live again I had to look deep inside myself and start again." So says Julian Lennon of his decision to return to the music industry after an absence of seven years. Indeed at the start of this decade it seemed unlikely that Julian would ever record again. Despite the fact that he launched his career with the international hit single 'Too Late for Goodbyes,' despite the fact that between the years 1984 and 1991 he released four albums with combined sales of five and a half million, Julian had tired of the media circus.  |
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 "On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad" |
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His original independent label Charisma records had become absorbed into a major, and his success had attracted some "advisors" who were more than ready to relieve Julian of his income: "Control over your career is so important. How can you express yourself when other people are trying to do it for you?" |
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 "I have to thank Mum for who I am. She has played the bigger part in my life, keeping me together, in the way I am and the way I treat people. She has always been the most important thing in my life, and will always be." "The closest person in my life, who is everything for me, who guided me and who helped me find myself, was my mother. She was always that kind of person that let you resolve your problems yourself. I mean, if you really couldn't do it she would help. But I had to figure out things myself and that was important, she sort of let me be ." |
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So Lennon quit. He spent the next few years living the life he had previously been denied during his punishing schedule. Relaxing in his lakeside house in Northern Italy. Sailing, Travelling. Accumulating antiques, rifling through flea markets. Anything that didn't involve the dreaded 'm'-word. |
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 "My dad's music was a great inspiration to me" To learn more about Julian and other BeatleKids go to http://octopusgarden.4mg.com/photo2.html |
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