While The Beatles broke up in 1970, they’re still very much part of popular culture, with the past few years seeing the release of Peter Jackson’s Got Back docuseries, the recent documentary Beatles ’64, their final new song, “Now and Then,” and more. And while Julian Lennon may be Beatle John Lennon’s son, he says he’s usually out of the loop when it comes to new projects associated with the band.
“It’s news to me half the time. I’m not part of the inner circle – I never have been,” he tells The Guardian in a new interview. “You have to realize 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. I visited him on the odd occasion but we were very much on the outside.”
He adds that what inside info he does get, he gets from his younger brother Sean Ono Lennon, noting, “I’m thankful that Sean and I get on like a house on fire – we’re best buddies and he tells me what he can, but things are pretty secret on the Beatles front.”
Julian says that while it may be “extraordinarily strange,” he isn’t “upset about it.”
“I’d rather be excited and impressed by what they did and continue to do,” he says. “As a fan, I’m just as curious as anybody else, although I do find myself going, ‘how is it possible that there’s another Beatles film?’”
And he’ll have to get used to that because not only is there another Beatles film coming up, there are going to be four of them. Sam Mendes is planning to direct four new films on the band, one for each member of the group.
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