Julian Lennon
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357 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Listen, I certainly recognize that there's walls up without question.
There's some things going on. I mean, I've discussed this with Rebecca, who you met, my manager, and a few other people. You know, there's occasions where I'll be totally blanked. Like with the last album I came out with, Jude, which took, you know, in between five and 30 years to write and record. It was old songs and new songs that I wanted to balance the sound.
And it was at a time when I'd gone through a lot of changes myself and I had decided to finally be Julian. I'd been John Charles Julian Lennon all my life. But everybody had always known me as Julian. Even mum and dad called me Julian. So I'm like, you know, I want to be me finally. So by deed poll in 2020, I said, right, I'm going to be Julian now. And the album's going to be called Jude.
And the reason I called it Jude was it was finally not only an acceptance but actually – what's the terminology? I'm actually taking ownership, should I say, of the name Jude and what that represented for all these years. Yeah.
to other people and to me so anyway so i i you know that was the album was a biggie for me calling the album jude for starters inciting right hopefully positive things um um but the weird thing was you know i did uh i put this whole band together and i i i wanted to as an as a starter to go on all the TV shows that I'd always ever wanted to appear on.
For instance, in England, like Jules Holland, later with Jules Holland, which is the only live music show that I've watched all my life, literally. There's Graham Norton. And I'd done their radio shows, which is really, really weird. And we got on like a house on fire, and I performed live. And that all went down well. And then it was kind of like see you on the real show.
Producers turned me down. And, you know, and and same with a lot of the late night American shows got got just didn't they weren't interested. And, you know, I had, you know, I'd done the name change. I'd been away for 10 years. I'd called the album Jude. You know, there was a lot to talk about, you know, and a great deal more than I'm presenting right now.
Anyway, I was turned down and still, and that still happens to me. which saddens me because just when you feel like you want to open up, you know, and answer any question you can throw at me, you know, I've not been allowed to. That's what it's felt like, that I've not been allowed to speak my piece, whatever that is, you know. on whatever subject matter. It's weird.
I don't understand.
Yeah, yeah. He's fucked.
Yeah, yeah. Iconic. Well, and I think with a lot of people, they don't want anybody to interfere with that. You know, I mean, how dare the sun come along and even try and be better in any way, shape or form or be as good as or whatever.
Which is why, you know, to a certain degree, photography really appealed to me. Number one, because... And the reality is I prefer it behind the camera. I don't mind being a goofball once in a while doing in front of the camera things, but I'm not really comfortable there. But behind the camera and, you know, traveling is what I've... I have a foundation called the White Feather Foundation and...
We try to help people all over the world and it started – I know that you have interest in indigenous cultures. Sure. And I don't know if you know the back story to this, to the White Feather Foundation at all. I don't. Okay. So here we go. Okay. I was on tour with probably my most, at least outside of America, most well-known song.
It was at number one and top ten in countries all over the world except for America. And it was called Saltwater. And Saltwater is about environmental and humanitarian issues. And I was number one in Australia. I was doing all kinds of shows. I was doing promo and tour as well.
And I found myself in Adelaide and I got this call from the hotel management saying, excuse me, Mr. Lennon, but there's an Aboriginal tribe down here with TV crews who want to say hi. And I thought it was like an on-the-road prank. I said, yeah, sure. Why would they be coming to see me? And they called back and they said, no, no, no, this is serious. Can you come down, please?
And so I think TV crews, Aboriginal tribe, what's this about? And so I kind of get dolled up a little bit because I don't know what the TV shows are or cameras are. So I go down. And in the lobby, there's a little platform and about 30 people, half of them indigenous, TV crews, a bunch of other stuff. And I honestly have no idea what it's about.
And this woman who was the elder of this particular tribe called the Moaning people walked up to me and presented me with a male swan's white feather, which is about yay big, and said, you know, can you help us? You have a voice. Can you help us? And I just kind of went, Well, you know, do I just continue being the rock and roller or do I step up to the plate? Whatever that means.
Well, I'll tell you. Initially, you know... I didn't know what their problems were. I imagined that it would be the same as most other indigenous tribes around the world that have had issues. And they said, can you help us? And I said, I'll do it for the children. So I guess what I was saying is the next generation, I can try and Anyway, so this woman was called Irish. She was the elder.
She's since passed in the last year or so. But I spent 10 years making a documentary with a best friend, Kim Kindersley, who initiated this whole thing. We made a documentary called Whale Dreamers. independent we had no money really behind it no sponsorship we won about 8 international independent film awards which was great but the back story to this is that
is that Dad had said to me, and I couldn't tell you when or where, just was one of those times that we were together. He just said that, you know, if something ever happens to me, that I'll let you know that... that to let you know that I'm okay or that we're all going to be okay will be in the form of a white feather. Whoa. So...
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