Julian Lennon
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357 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I'm alive. I think that's, for me, people say, how are you? I'm alive. And I have always gone with things that have been presented to me organically. Uh, anytime I've ever fought that or, or, or been pushed into situations, uh, never generally never works out. I think for everybody. Yeah. Yeah.
So I, you know, I, I feel fortunate in that these things have come along and I've, I've been in the right head space, thankfully to go, yes, I want to, I want to do this, you know?
How did you learn how to use them? I didn't. I didn't. You just like figured out how to focus them? Same with music. I play by ear. Not a clue how to read or write music. Really? Yeah. And this, I tell you, this is one of my fears is that, and I'll come back to this, but I Because I'm not a practicing musician. Well, I haven't been for years anyway because of all the other work that I do.
So if I'm not on the road and I'm not practicing and I've got a terrible memory, I forget. And so, you know, I've been cornered a few times when people say, come on, pick up the guitar or play the piano, give us a song. I couldn't. I couldn't even if you gave me a million bucks tomorrow. I couldn't do it. My memory just doesn't work that way.
And so this is why my manager and I, Rebecca, we keep having chats about going on the road. I said, listen, if we're going to do this, then this is a lot of work for me. I have to relearn how to play my own songs and my lyrics. And I kid you not. Wow.
yeah yeah right so what would you do like have you done that in the past where you had to relearn yeah well what i i yeah i mean the last tour i did with the album everything changes how do you scale it like how do you get you just have to get in the room so you just get in the room and get in the room with the guys you know the the the band that you put together
Generally, I'll have one or two friends in the band. And I have generally played rhythm guitar or a bit of piano for a couple of songs. But I have to relearn everything. And then lyrics. How long does it take to relearn how to play? Well, we were actually setting up, as I said, to do a bunch of TV shows to promote the album.
And I was quite surprised about how quickly, because the band was so good, I walked into the room, they had the songs down already, and I just went, oh, fuck. Shit, I'm screwed. So that means, again, I have to step up to the plate. And it was just a question of being in there every day, remembering, learning the chords, going over it, over it, over it again.
And of course, all this stuff that we were going to perform was all new material. Because when I write a song, if I've written the basics of a song in an hour or two, and it's all there, and then written the lyrics, and then produced it, recorded it, and it's done, that's the one and only or couple of times that I'll have ever played it.
So it's almost a new song to me every time I come back to it. It's a real weird one. So for the photography, I just took along basically a really good quality automatic camera that took the shots. Did you know what you were buying or did you just go buy one? Did someone help you? No, I'd ask a few friends like Timothy White. I'd say, you know, what could I use if I'm running around and –
And so I took their advice and I started with a very simple camera that was autofocus and all compact and I didn't have to change lenses. And that's one I did for a trip around the South China Seas on a boat trip. I just took this one camera in my backpack and hoped for the best. I had a show here at Leica in L.A. because it was a Leica camera. which was about 50 images of the trip that I did.
But I think where my strength lies in photography is weirdly not on the technical side, obviously. but capturing that moment. I tell you the one thing about the woman that's on the cover of the book. She is now the Princess of Monaco, originally Charlene Whitstock. And I'd met her a couple of times and I'd met Prince Albert a couple of times.
And I got this call literally the day before they were getting married from a mutual friend saying, Charlene loves your photography. She wants you to come and shoot the show. What? What? Yeah, she wants you to come down to where she is getting ready for the civil wedding tomorrow and she wants you to take pictures.
I mean, you want to talk about anxiety and crapping yourself? Excuse me.
I arrive at the hotel where she and all the maids of honors are. I'm sitting in the lobby and I've got a backpack and one camera. And I've tried to dress myself up a little bit. I don't know what's going to happen. I had to go through several layers of security, roadblocks and all this to get there, which was nerve-wracking to say the least anyway. And then...
The likes of Patrick de Marchelier, you know, one of the best photographers in the world, walks in with, you know, the suitcase trolleys, you know, those ones at the hotel, the big ones on wheels with all his equipment on. Three or four trolleys and there's – I've got a backpack, you know. Yeah. Anyway, I go upstairs. I'm placed in front of her in a room probably about similar to this size.
And she's sitting there completely blanked out in front of the mirror with the hairdresser, the hairdresser's assistant and their assistant, the makeup artist, the makeup artist's assistant. Is that you? Yeah, that's me. Yeah.
Yeah. So I'm in the book a few times. That'll be a questionnaire at one point. That'll be a quiz at one point. How many times am I in the book? I don't even know myself, to be honest. But so I sit next to her and you've got all these people, 20 people in a room this size doing things, trying to get her ready 10 minutes before she's getting married. And they put me on this little poof next to her.
I'm sitting next to her and she's and I'm saying, Are you okay? Should I just take pictures? She said, Jules, I'm not sure what to do. I don't know what to do. I'm going, what do you mean? You don't know what to do about... the marriage or me taking pictures. She said, no, no, Jules, it's the photos. I said, listen, this is historic.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to record what's going to happen to you. And exciting for me, too, to be a part of that as a photographer. And so I said, listen, I'll keep out the way. I'm a fly on the wall. You know, I won't be anywhere. And I was thinking, how am I going to do this? How do I do this? And so I just start. I just let people get on and I'm taking pictures.
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