Julian Lennon
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357 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Where is that? I don't know.
Yeah, Rome is not my favorite. The reason why it's so appealing to me is because actually my first stepfather was Italian, Roberto Bassanini. That's pretty Italian. Oh, he was very Italian. And he was the black sheep of the family. He was the naughty boy. And he was more like an older brother to me, married to mom. after dad, after John.
And his family were involved in kind of hotels and restaurants from also London in the heyday of Italian restaurants. It was like the 70s. And so they had a few small hotels in different areas. And so whenever I wasn't at school in London or England at that time,
We'd take these little trips to Cortina or above Milan, there's a little town called Foppolo that I used to go, unknown by most tourists, locals to go skiing in the winter or Pesaro, which was on the east coast for summer holidays. I spent a lot of time there growing up from the age of five, six, seven. She was only with him for about three or four years, but we stayed in touch.
I used to go and visit him all the time because he was a laugh. Of course, sadly, his lifestyle killed him with a couple of heart attacks at the end of everything. That's usually how it goes when you're having a good time. Yeah, he was having too much of a good time. I'm afraid. But I miss him dearly. He certainly was, you know, one of those characters that you just, you know, you admired.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Relax. They can be a bit stressed sometimes, though, with the shouting at each other.
Yeah, agreed.
Yeah, I mean, I don't want to sound pompous, but it does sound pompous. If I have friends come over from the States or London, I'll say, yeah.
Fancy, you know, getting some Italian tonight. And we'll get in the car and we'll be on the freeway or the motorway over there. And they'll be saying, where the F are we going? You know, I'm going, go for Italian. And there's a little town about an hour away from Monaco. Tiny little medieval town called, well, we'll give it away, actually. Can't give it away.
where I'll just go and get the best spaghetti vongole on the planet made by a grandmother who's in a kitchen, you know, 10 by 10 at the best of times, you know, with all... And it's down on the water and it's just, you know, it's Italy for me, if you're not in the mountains, if you're by the sea, at its best. And, you know, they all get dressed up at sunset.
You know, they all love to walk the promenade and... in their finest attire and sit there and watch the world go by and drink their coffee and chat. Because I lived in L.A. for I think it was about eight years and I went back. The story of me going back actually was that I flew back to London to see a premiere of a film called Backbeat. It's about the early Beatles.
I didn't know anything about it, but I had an invite, so I went to see it. And I met this guy who said, who's a line producer, film producer. And he said, you know, have you been to Monaco before? I said, no, I've never even thought about it, really. And he said, do you like Grand Prix? I said, no. not really a Grand Prix kind of guy.
He said, well, listen, if you've got nothing to do this weekend after we saw the film and the premiere, why don't you come down? I've got an apartment. I've got an extra room. I know the town inside out. And I was thinking, oh, what am I going to do? Go back to L.A. and be numb again. And so I literally went down to Monaco the next day.
And he just showed me around and we went to this very famous restaurant and famous corner called the Rascasse Corner on the Grand Prix circuit. And it's literally where you're having a prawn cocktail and there's a car coming at you at about 180 miles an hour with just a chicken wire fence in front of your face. Yeah. How far away? I mean, directly in front of you.
I mean, the car could be... So this is it right here? Yeah. That's not the Rascasse Corner. That's the Lowe's Corner. Rascasse Corner is a very, very famous little spot. There it is. Yeah, that's it. So you'd be behind the chicken wire fence. This is a kind of modern version of it. But that's even more protection than it used to have.
um and you'd have a bit of lunch there and they would and that became that was the hot spot in monaco for years and years there were three brothers that owned it real troublemakers and uh it it was a blast but so you had the car so i went all right i'm into this uh and i So I spent the summer down there. And I used to have a little bungalow on Mulholland and Coldwater.
And I had a caretaker there because I had a dog at the time. And I just said, hi, Tim. pack it up sell the house i'm not coming back and i didn't i didn't go back did you take your dog uh the dog actually died before i i yeah sadly it was uh getting on but uh but yes uh yeah that that was it yeah i just i just put everything in storage i rented this kind of
what could be seen as a Miami Vice kind of apartment on the 30th floor. It just had marble and a mirrored wall with no furniture. And so I bought a couch off of the floor of a store called Habitat and Because it would take like six weeks to order and I had nothing. And so I bought a couch. I bought a TV, even though there was no English TV back then. This is 30 years ago.
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