Post by Rob Durkee on Apr 7, 2013 22:02:23 GMT -5
BY ROCKIN ROBIN
He was the first child of a Beatle. He was named for his grandmother, Julia. He was the subject of at least three Beatle songs and a nursery school drawing inspired a fourth.
Believe it or not Julian Lennon turns 50 Monday. Get used to it. Many more Beatle-related 50th-anniversary Beatle happenings are going to come up, especially next year. Can you believe the Beatles' first #1 song, "I Want To Hold Your Hand," turns 50 years old in just ten months? Believe it.
"Do You Want To Know A Secret" by the Beatles was written at about the time John's first wife, Cynthia, was pregnant with Julian. Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, insisted that John keep his marriage a secret when the Beatles exploded into popularity. In fact, according to Wikipedia, John was on tour when Julian was born and didn't see his newborn son until some three days later. When Julian would be sung to sleep via a lullaby tune, his dad turned that melody into "Good Night," which was part of the Beatles' White Album.
A few years later, Julian came home with a drawing he'd done in nursery school. He told his dad that it was a drawing of a classmate and called it "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." The song would become part of the legendary "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" album as well as a 1975 #1 remake for Elton John.
When John and Cynthia was breaking up around 1968, Julian was distraught. That prompted Paul McCartney to write a song to console Julian. It would become the Beatles' biggest chart single and the #1 single of the 1960's, "Hey Jude."
Julian Lennon played drums on "Ya Ya" in his dad's 1974 LP, "Walls And Bridge." The younger Lennon became a star on his own in late 1984, when "Valotte" reached #9 on the Cash Box pop chart. His followup in early 1985, though, would reach #7 and become the biggest of his half dozen hits. Here it is...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh4Cni_wp-Y
For more on Julian Lennon...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lennon
He was the first child of a Beatle. He was named for his grandmother, Julia. He was the subject of at least three Beatle songs and a nursery school drawing inspired a fourth.
Believe it or not Julian Lennon turns 50 Monday. Get used to it. Many more Beatle-related 50th-anniversary Beatle happenings are going to come up, especially next year. Can you believe the Beatles' first #1 song, "I Want To Hold Your Hand," turns 50 years old in just ten months? Believe it.
"Do You Want To Know A Secret" by the Beatles was written at about the time John's first wife, Cynthia, was pregnant with Julian. Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, insisted that John keep his marriage a secret when the Beatles exploded into popularity. In fact, according to Wikipedia, John was on tour when Julian was born and didn't see his newborn son until some three days later. When Julian would be sung to sleep via a lullaby tune, his dad turned that melody into "Good Night," which was part of the Beatles' White Album.
A few years later, Julian came home with a drawing he'd done in nursery school. He told his dad that it was a drawing of a classmate and called it "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." The song would become part of the legendary "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" album as well as a 1975 #1 remake for Elton John.
When John and Cynthia was breaking up around 1968, Julian was distraught. That prompted Paul McCartney to write a song to console Julian. It would become the Beatles' biggest chart single and the #1 single of the 1960's, "Hey Jude."
Julian Lennon played drums on "Ya Ya" in his dad's 1974 LP, "Walls And Bridge." The younger Lennon became a star on his own in late 1984, when "Valotte" reached #9 on the Cash Box pop chart. His followup in early 1985, though, would reach #7 and become the biggest of his half dozen hits. Here it is...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh4Cni_wp-Y
For more on Julian Lennon...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lennon
