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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Ellie Iorizzo

John Lennon's son says he's 'driven up the wall' by 'dark' Hey Jude

Julian Lennon said Beatles classic Hey Jude will always be “dark” to him as it serves as a reminder of the pain behind his parents divorce and “the fact that I rarely saw my father again”.

The son of late Beatles superstar John Lennon said Sir Paul McCartney wrote the song to provide comfort to Julian and his mother Cynthia over the 1968 separation and the affair with Yoko Ono.

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