Voyager wrote:WHy did John Lennon leave Julian's mom to hook up with Yoko fucking Ono?
Yoko looks like an ape woman. What a dumbass!
An interview with Julian was kind of sad. After he left his mom, Julian didn't really ever see him much. And Julian said maybe when John Lennon was younger he can let it go but when John was older and more mature Julian can never understand how he could ignore what as a son he needed from his father, and that his stepfather is the one that raised him and loved him. Here's part of another interview re his dad:
"For Lennon to be able to musically embrace his past is a big step. "I had to be very much at a certain point in my life to be able to accept this and feel it was right to do it now," he tells Spinner. "As many out there know, for a long time I wouldn't say that I shunned dad or the Beatles, but I certainly side-stepped them and wanted to carve my own path, so to speak."
That he is ready to do this is an even bigger victory for him personally. "I think it was coming to terms with a lot of issues I felt I needed to deal with," he says. "I went through quite a few issues with dad."
Those problems have been well documented. After the elder Lennon left Julian's mother Cynthia for Yoko Ono, the couple moved to New York, leaving father and son largely estranged for years. The messy divorce that ensued only strained the relationship further, and John's parenting efforts focused on Sean, his younger son whom he fathered with Ono.
Adding insult to injury, Lennon had stated in interviews that Sean's birth was planned, whereas Julian's was not. Though the two went for years without speaking, Julian and his father reconciled shortly during his brief relationship with May Pang, before John was tragically gunned down by Mark David Chapman in 1980, just a few years later.
Although the pair reconnected for a short time before John's death, Lennon admits truly forgiving his dad was something that he's only recently come to understand with age. "There's only so much bitterness and anger one can carry in life without it taking you to the grave. It was time for me to grow up in many respects," he says.
Songwriting, which he calls "a cathartic experience," has helped him come to grips with his past, particularly on his forthcoming 2010 album 'Everything Changes.' "One has to reach a point of forgiveness -- and I'd done that, but I hadn't really taken it to heart for a long time. It's only in recent years and probably partially through the writing of this album."
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:22 pm
