Born: Liverpool 8 April 1963
John Charles Julian Lennon only son of John & Cynthia Lennon Julian was named after John Lennon's mother Julia. I have followed his life for a long time. Because I have been a fan of the Beatles sence they came to the US. Even though I was only about 6 at the time. But Julian has had a lot of things happen to him in his life as well.

"It's basically a song about being away from the one you love. In this case it's a narrative about a guy who is away at war, never knowing if he's going to make it back home." Julian readily acknowledges it's relevance to his own life. "All my songs are about personal experiences." In particular, the song draws on his longest relationship. "We were together four years. I thought I was going to settle down and get married but then the promo tour from hell for the last album took me away for over a year and it destroyed us. And I can tell you, if and when I fall in love again, never again shall I let career over-rule love."

"It's basically about being head over heels with someone but it reflects the insecurity inside oneself. This is a problem I've had in the past, instead of enjoying what's here and now, thinking ahead and putting problems in front where there are no problems. It's, in a pathetic sense, praying someone doesn't leave you, because of your own insecurities than anything else."

"It reflects all those niggly doubts one has about situations, why you're with someone or why you're in the business. That's always been a difficult one for me. Because I've had experiences where there's been a relationship and after we break up I would find a story in the media. One never knows why someone is with you. In love and business it has been very, very difficult to trust."

"It's a very straightforward song about our responsibility for our environment. I have never ever wanted to be a preacher. I think this is a concern for everybody. And in my own way I will help where I can."

"This is probably the song that a lot of Beatles fans have been waiting for me to do. People are always asking when am I gonna do something more towards the Beatles style. And so I thought, why not? In a sense it's a homage, but the sentiment and lyrics are serious. It actually came about from walking around in France and there was a shop with an English newspaper. I thought 'Oh, get the paper, catch up on the rest of the world', and then I thought, 'I don't know'. It turned into a relationship song. It could have turned out to be the other half of How Many Times if it had leant more towards the political."

"It's dedicated to a friend, Kevin Gilbert, who's sadly no-longer with us. We were talking about how there were so many different levels of power and abuse in the world. He said something bout being crucified on a cross of innuendo. Unfortunately he died and I was left with the title. In this song I just tried to suggest that, by words alone, a man can be condemned without any justification whatsoever. I can relate to that. I think many people can, that have been in the public eye and have been knocked down by the simplest of things or even a rumour."

"Whenever I put that on, even the first couple of chords, it takes me into an emotional world. When you hear a certain group of sad notes together, you sit down and think about life. Musically, it's a well crafted song. I always feel that the lyrics should stand alone and make you feel the emotion, and the music when it stands alone should make you feel strength. It was an important song because one of the biggest things for me in life has been barriers and walls. Whether I've created them myself, or whether they've been put up against me."

"It's a very sort of ignorant song - in a nice way. If we all believed in love, everything would be fine and happy. It's wishful thinking. In it's simplest form - it would be nice for everybody to be in love and happy, running through fields hand in hand!"

"Sometimes the best time to be able to think and reflect and move forward in life is when you are on your own and when you are faced only with yourself. So it can be good to be lonely, to juggle what's going on in your life and figure out how to move ahead."

"A little Ditty. The catcher would be me. And it's about the person I'm trying to catch. It's just a desire, wanting to be with someone you can't have. Someone you think might be right for you but who will not give you the time of day. So it's an impossible situation."

"Initially I wrote it about my own feelings, about being in love with someone and things falling apart and just wanting to get back in their lives again. But I thought - why not make it third person, make it a woman instead? Turn the tables. Let's be fair, it does happen to women too."

"It was written after a relationship where I thought I had found love again. It's all about someone who was living on the other side of the world. And all I had to remind me of her were my memories and a photograph. The photograph was blue skies behind, with her sitting in front, smiling. And it was about the pain of potentially not seeing that person again. Obviously that can relate to a lot of situations in life and death."

"The sentiment came from thinking about the lady I was with for four years, when I thought I was going to settle down and marry. I've always loved the idea of being with someone for a long time and loving them and vica-versa and knowing them intimately and having that partner in life. I've always wanted that. It was written one afternoon at home while in the process of writing another song. It's probably the quickest song I've ever written, because it was so simple, straightforward, yet emotional. I always try and write complicated songs. I don't try, I feel the need to, because what drives me up the wall is hearing the same three chords in a song that are in every song played over the last thirty years. There's got to be a better way to write songs than p[laying the same three frigging chords, that even lean on the same melodies. That's been one of my major frustrations. But once in a while it's nice to go back to those chords. Because sometimes with the complicated stuff you get so deep and bogged down with the technical aspect, it's necessary to just go 'oh fuck it', plonk on the piano or the guitar and bring those three chords back. With a little twist. I've always got to find some little twist."

"I like the sentiment and also the way it begins and finishes. Just the sound and the emotions. It's self explanatory really. It brings the emotional journey of the album to a close." It also features a musical passage that refers to Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, a song John Lennon based around a drawing Julian did when he was a small child. This deliberate reference to Julian's at times painful heritage highlights the albums themes of need, rejection and reconciliation. "There was a time when I wanted to avoid anything and everything that had gone before," Julian admits. "I used to wonder how was I to forge my own path if all the time comparisons were going to be made. But now I realise they're never gonna go away, no matter what I do. But it's OK. That's my karma."

I know 1998 has been a long time but he says he is comming back. A new abulm out soon I hope maybe this year.