You’d be a hard-hearted soul not to feel at least a shred of sympathy for Julian Lennon. It can’t have been easy, for all the reasons you’d expect. Though he’s enjoyed a decent-ish career in music (Top Ten hits, Grammy nominations) he’s never really escaped the long shadow cast by his old man.
Now, in a revealing interview in the Observer this weekend, Julian has opened up about all this. Ostensibly it was to promote his new collection of his photographic work, Life’s Fragile Moments. But conversation inevitably turned to his lifelong struggle to escape that shadow.
