“I think I could handle things a little more delicately but I also don’t want to candy coat things,” he insists. It clearly still rankles but he admits he does let fly sometimes. He did get back to me saying someone obviously made a huge mistake and I accept that. All of my friends, who are mutual friends, went. The wedding? Well, OK, but at least maybe the reception. (By contrast he recently seemed to make peace with Yoko Ono).Īs for Paul: “I am not going to say that we weren’t close because he certainly was around at certain times of my life that were important. I try to look at it in a lighter way otherwise I would be at war with everybody. “I really did think it’s just too funny to be real. How dare they,” Julian wrote on Facebook. “I & My Mother will NOT be eradicated from History. (McCartney memorably wrote the song Hey Jules, later changed to Hey Jude because it scanned better, to comfort Julian when his parents got divorced). It is perhaps this latent sense of being airbrushed out of history that prompted Julian’s fury when he was not invited to a number of high-profile Beatles events including Sir Paul McCartney’s wedding to Nancy Shevell last year.
“I am constantly thinking of that, of Dad’s legacy. “It is also for my family so they can have a piece of their grandfather’s history,” he says. The wish to preserve some family heritage has seen Julian buy up Beatles memorabilia when he is able. “My mother has it and she got it from my grandmother who used to say: ‘Let them fish and just get on with it.’” He is very close to his mother Cynthia who was married to John for six years (in the early days of The Beatles her existence and that of Julian were kept a secret from the fans so as not to disappoint them). SUCH resilience runs in the family, he explains. “I’ve just decided I’ve had enough and taken the bull by the horns. Is he a control freak? “A little yeah,” he smiles. He has taken control of his career now and has felt disenchanted with the music industry. “I have been close to quitting on numerous occasions, especially when after the release of an album the comparisons begin without people having even listened to it.” He has had low moods and thought about leaving music completely but somehow has carried on. Pulling myself back up on the horse, time and time again, over many years, has been tough.” “Yes, I have had a few knock-backs,” he says. His debut 1984 album Valotte received warm praise but he has had a harder time since. “The fact that the photographs were taken seriously gave me goosebumps.” “I think it does help that Dad was never a photographer so I am judged by the work alone,” he says. He reveals a lack of confidence in his work throughout our conversation and admits he is primed for criticism after years of being compared with his father John.
“I don’t consider myself a photographer per se and it was completely nerve wracking,” he says. Julian has known Albert for years and Charlene is a fan of his work. He also shot the moments before Charlene Wittstock married Prince Albert of Monaco.
#RINGO STARR EYEBROW SERIES#
His work includes a series of exquisite cloudscapes (taken out of the window on one of his many flights) as well as behind-the-scenes shots of his half-brother Sean Lennon and U2. His latest love, however, is photography. His new album Everything Changes has been well received (the new single Guess It Was Me has just been released), he has embarked on a successful career as a photographer and he has his White Feather Foundation, a charity focused on environmental and humanitarian issues. Indeed the Welsh rarebit he orders is somewhat neglected as Lennon is quite a conversationalist. Despite this, he is a chatty, open, funny and seems completely at ease. He has not always had an easy relationship with the press and he readily admits his preference would be to not give interviews at all. “So I see the seating plan was arranged in advance, was it?” he asks with mock seriousness and a raised eyebrow.
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