Julian Lennon
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I don't know what's going on. I'm serious though. Yeah, it's seed oils. Absolutely. Seed oils in the salad dressing and sugar. Yep. All of that. All of that. Yeah, I agree. I live – it's a much healthier lifestyle over there without question. Oh, yeah. The food hasn't been violated. Yeah.
You can eat pizza every day and pasta every day. And also I think the other real big thing here is the portion control as well.
I mean, you can have one plate full of food here and it'll serve four people in Europe.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. For sure.
Oh, yeah. There's something special about it. It's great when you've got friends who have that same appreciation that, you know, while you're eating lunch, you're talking about dinner.
Yeah, yeah. That's how excited you are about food.
No question. No question about it. I long for that because also I go on these very long working time periods and I don't get to see a lot of friends quite often. And so I really try and work out and look at my schedule these days to go – I'm taking some time out here for a couple of days. I want to see my friends. I want to say hello. I want to share some time and stories and food with them.
So it's become a key thing to have that included in running around like a headless chicken all the time.
Thank you. Thank you. You know, it was a dear friend, Timothy White, who's a celebrity photographer. And he'd done my second and third album. And we were doing a charity single called Lucy, which was about Lucy Voden, who was the Lucy in the sky with diamond that I grew up with. who died from lupus. And then I became the lupus, the ambassador for the Lupus Foundation of America.
We were doing a single to raise money called Lucy. And we were doing with another great artist called James Scott Cook. And we were doing a photo shoot and he'd sent me some pictures and I started screwing around with his pictures. And he said to me, and you actually don't do that with another photographer's work. He said, what the fuck are you doing with my pictures?
He said, where did you learn how to do this? I said, well, I didn't. I just, you know, I'm intuitively inspired to play around with stuff, you know. I'm still a big kid. And he said, well, do you have any other – do you have other – do you actually have photos yourself that you've taken and worked on? I said, well, I've got bits and bobs but nothing.
So he and I sat down and looked through all the photos I had. And I think there was maybe 1,000 at that time, which isn't much at all. I'm now over 120,000 photos. It's mind-boggling. That's why this was difficult. Yeah, so he said, Jules, why don't you do something with this stuff? And I said, what? What am I going to do? He said, listen, you should do an exhibition.
You've got some really beautiful things here. And I said, listen, I'll do it if you mentor me through the whole process. which he did. And I was probably more petrified at the first exhibition that I did, which was in New York at the old CBGB's, which turned into the Morrison Hotel Gallery. And that was in 2010, I think. And I was more petrified
The three days leading up to that than I was ever going on stage. Well, probably my first ever stage performance, which I did in Dallas at a rehearsal space that was down here for the first ever tour. Now, again, the anxiety. It's the unknown. I don't know what... You know, the worry of what people are going to think because, you know, not just being you but John Lennon's son.
Being the second John, so to speak, was always an issue for me. You know, feeling like you have to doubly prove yourself. So, and literally an hour or two before the opening as well, there was the most horrendous storm and downpour in New York. And I thought, well, that's it. Nobody's coming.
But to my utter delight, I had reviews from fine art, photography, magazines, et cetera, et cetera, that gave me nothing but praise. And I was shocked. Wow. Absolutely shocked. So I just continued doing that. I'm now over, I think, 42 exhibitions worldwide. And I just finished my biggest one in Venice at a museum over the last three months. And the book, in fact...
I had approached other publications before but been pretty much turned down by everybody. And then out of the blue earlier this year, this company out of Berlin called Tenoise said, listen, do you want to do a photography book? And I said, hell yeah. And they said, why haven't you done one before? I said, because nobody gave me the opportunity. Excuse my French.
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