ROCK’N’ROLL CONFIDENTIAL
JULIAN LENNON
The Beatles dynast talks musical exorcism, the dread and panic of singing Imagine, and dad John.
Julian Lennon: beginning to make it better, better, better...
Robert Ascroft
THIRTY-EIGHT years after debut solo hit Too Late For Goodbyes, Julian Lennon has returned with the boldly-titled Jude, his seventh solo LP and his first since 2011. More recently engaged in photography, documentary-making and his charity The White Feather, he calls Jude his “coming-of-age” album, blending indie-moderne and inevitable echoes of Fabness with environmental and humanitari-an concerns. “It’s all about love, light and shade, and everything in-between,” says the personable 59-year-old in tones which still reveal a soft Scouse accent. “Where it really came from was looking into the mirror and going, OK, where am I now? Who am I now? And what does this all mean?”