Artist: Julian Lennon
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Photograph Smile
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Valotte Bonus
Year: 1984
Tracks: 3
Valotte
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
The son of John Lennon and his first married woman Cynthia, Julian Lennon parlayed a remarkable vocal similarity to his father into a somewhat successful singing career during the 1980s. John Charles Julian Lennon was born on April 8, 1963 in Liverpool, and as a child elysian several Beatles compositions: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" reportedly arose out of a drawing Julian made of a classmate, and following his parents' disassociate, he became the field of Paul McCartney's sympathetic "Hey Jude." Julian began playing guitar and drums at age ten, adding forte-piano as a stripling; he appeared as a drummer on the track "Ya Ya" on the John Lennon album Walls and Bridges. Following his father's assassination, Lennon decided to follow a singing vocation, although he apprehensive that his vocal and stylistic law of similarity to his fatherhood would prove detrimental. He ab initio sign-language a contract to book an unreleased song stolen from John Lennon's vaults, merely after intellection better of it, he enlisted Yoko Ono's help in purchasing out the reduce.
Lennon sign-language with Atlantic and recorded his debut album, Valotte, at a French château of the same name. The album produced four chart singles, including the Top Tens "Valotte" and "Besides Late for Goodbyes"; Lennon was nominative for a Grammy for Best New Artist. Success was attended by hedonic indulgence, and the follow-up, 1986's underwritten The Secret Value of Daydreaming, perchance suffered because of it. Lennon returned in 1989 with Mr. Jordan, an album that found him nerve-racking to fall apart away from his John Lennon influences with a darker style redolent of David Bowie. However, the single "Now You're in Heaven" proven only a minor pip. Following 1991's Help Yourself, Lennon temporarily retired from the music industry and worn out nearly seven-spot years in seclusion. In the leaping of 1998, he returned with Photograph Smile, an indie album initially issued alone in Europe and Japan merely disposed American tone ending the next class.
