![]() You think, where's the love in that? Paul and I used to hang about quite a bit.more than Dad and I did. There was some very negative stuff talked about me.like when he said I'd come out of a whiskey bottle on a Saturday night. Following Lennon's murder, Julian voiced anger and resentment towards him, saying, "I've never really wanted to know the truth about how dad was with me. Julian's relationship with his legendary father was rather strained. Julian also produced the environmental documentary film 'WhaleDreamers', and in 2020, worked on the documentary film 'Women of the White Buffalo' as one of the executive producers. In his professional career, Julian has produced a number of albums and has held exhibitions of his photography. ![]() John and Cynthia, his parents, divorced in 1968. Julian was also the direct inspiration for some of the most popular Beatles' songs like 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' (1967), 'Hey Jude' (1968), and 'Good Night' (1968). A singer, musician, photographer and philanthropist, Julian is the founder of the White Feather Foundation, an organization raising funds for environmental and humanitarian causes. It should be out on DVD/Blu-ray in the UK soon, and is still available to watch on SkyTV.Julian Lennon, full name John Charles Julian Lennon, was born on Apto John and Cynthia Lennon. It is available on digital download worldwide on various platforms, on DVD/Blu-Ray in the US and will be sold all round the world. You can see the footage we shot with Nigel Walley, and the affect it had on him according to those who knew him best, and they didn’t all agree on how it affected John, in Looking for Lennon. The policeman, Eric Clague, eventually left the police force and, in a strange twist of “instant karma”, became a postman, delivering Beatles fan mail to 20, Forthlin Road, the McCartney house. Some would say he never recovered from her loss. The mother he adored was gone, and he spent the rest of his life seeking something for fill the void left by her. John answered the door of his mother’s house to the police, exactly like it is in the movies he said. He can still picture her red hair blowing in the wind. Nigel heard the brakes and turned round to see his best friend’s mother in the air and slamming onto the road. ![]() As she crossed the old tram tracks and stepped onto the road, a car, driven by an off-duty policeman who didn’t have a full driving license, slammed on its brakes, but it was too late: the car hit Julia and sent her flying through the air. After saying goodnight, Nigel headed down Vale Road to his house, while Julia crossed the road and headed for the bus stop. Nigel called at Mendips just as Julia was coming out of Mendips, and walked to the corner of Vale Road with her. Julia often used to take the bus to Mendips to see her sister Mimi, and on this occasion, John was in his mother’s house. When making “Looking for Lennon”, our documentary feature film, we interviewed and filmed Nigel Walley, John’s childhood friend and eyewitness to Julia’s death. Having been taken away from his mother at the age of five, he longed for a relationship with her again in his teens. On 15th July 1958, he was to lose his mother for the second time this time it was forever. She had bought him his first guitar, taught him to play a few songs using banjo chords and even let The Quarrymen rehearse in her house. However, what did help him was the re-establishing of a relationship with his mother, Julia. In the June of 1955, his Uncle George had died suddenly. Just three days after making their first record at Percy Phillips’ studio in Kensington, Liverpool, tragedy was to strike John Lennon once more. A young John Lennon with his mother, Julia
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