Julian Lennon says he was ‘heartbroken’ by the reaction to his last album
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Musician and photographer said he’d hoped to appear on late-night TV but ‘sadly nobody would have me on’. Julian Lennon has claimed that “nobody” would have him on their late-night shows while he was promoting his most recent album. The musician and photographer, who is the son of John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia Powell, released his record Jude – his first in over a decade – in 2022.
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Speaking to The Independent at the time, Lennon, 61, said the album’s title was an act of reclamation that helped him come to terms with his past. In a new interview, however, he admitted he was “heartbroken” by the apathy he apparently received in response to his music, and suggested it had put him off recording anything else for the foreseeable.
“The idea was to hit a couple of the American late-night TV shows and the likes of Graham Norton and Jools Holland, but sadly nobody would have me on, so that was a bit of a letdown. “I’m not saying I’m leaving music alone but I was heartbroken by that, I still am.”.
In the same Q&A, Lennon revealed he is “not part of the inner circle” involving other Beatles offspring or family members. “You have to realise that when Dad left, when I was between three and five (it was a bit of a process), it was just mum and me, and we had nothing to do with the Beatles or Dad,” he said.
