Julian Lennon
John Charles Julian Lennon is an English singer, musician, photographer and philanthropist. He is the son of the Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia. His parents divorced in 1968 after his father’s infidelity with Japanese multimedia artist Yoko Ono. Julian was excluded from father’s will of £100,000, but a trust was created by his father to be shared between Julian and his half brother Sean.
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John Charles Julian Lennon is an English singer, musician, photographer and philanthropist. He is the son of the Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia. His parents divorced in 1968 after his father’s infidelity with Japanese multimedia artist Yoko Ono. He has produced a number of albums, beginning with Valotte in 1984. In 2006, Lennon produced the environmental documentary film WhaleDreamers, and in 2020, Lennon also worked on the documentary film Women of the White Buffalo, as one of the executive producers. Julian was excluded from father’s will of £100,000, but a trust was created by his father to be shared between Julian and his half brother Sean. Julian made his musical debut at 11 years old on his father’s album Walls and Bridges. He enjoyed immediate success with his debut album, Valotte, released in 1984, and spawned two top 10 albums. In the 1980s, according to AllMusic, he ‘parlayed a remarkable vocal similarity to his father into a successful singing career’. Julian has a younger half-brother, Sean Lennon, who he met at the age of 16. He was educated at Ruthin School, a boarding independent school in the town of Ruthin in Denbighshire in North Wales. In 2009, he said: ‘I’ve never really wanted to know the truth about how dad was with me.’ He said in 2009, ‘We had a lot of fun, laughed a lot and had a great time in general when he was with May Pang.
My memories of that time with Dad and May are very clear — they were the happiest time I can remember with him’ Julian Lennon was born on 8 April 1963 at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool to John Lennon and Cynthia Powell. His paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon, died five years before his birth. The Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, was his godfather. Julian had almost no contact with his father until the early 1970s when he began to visit his father regularly, at the request of his then-girlfriend, May Pangs. He said, “I felt he was a hypocrite. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces—no communication, adultery, divorce? You can’t do it, not if you’re being true and honest with yourself\”. Julian chafed at hearing his dad’s peace andLove stance perpetually celebrated. He later said: ‘There seems to be far more pictures of me and Paul playing together at that age than there are pictures of myself and my dad’ in 2009, when he said I’d come out of a whiskey bottle on a Saturday night. You think, where’s the love in that?
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