1 John Lennon's sister, Julia Baird, talks about their mother Julia Lennon *
2 Julia talks about John and Paul McCartney's childhood relationship (10:15)
3 Julia talks about the early Beatles (11:25)
4 The Beatles Julia alternate version (12:52)
* Original Julia Baird interview without background music: [ Ссылка ]
The exclusive interview with Julia Baird is from the 2005 British Invasion Rarities DVD. The Beatles instrumental version of Julia was added as the background audio track. The unreleased demo of Julia during the recording sessions for The Beatles White Album follows. The ballad itself was the final track, composed by Lennon and recorded for the 1968 double album. No other Beatle sings or plays on the song. This is the only time that Lennon played solo and sang unaccompanied on a Beatles track.
Watch Sean Lennon's heartwarming cover of his father's Julia on John Lennon Tribute All-Star Song Performances: [ Ссылка ]
The song Julia is not included in the eight-disc super deluxe collection celebrating the 50th anniversary of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, releasing on April 16, 2021.
Lourdersound.com article: The reissue is described as a “deep listening experience and in-depth exploration” of John Lennon’s first solo studio album which was recorded in 1970 shortly after the Beatles split.
Along with the original album's tracks, the 2021 release will also include previously unreleased demos, rehearsal outtakes, jams, and studio conversations – and in total John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band will feature 87 never-before-heard recordings.
To mark the news, Capitol/UMC released the new Ultimate Mix of Mother and shared a video trailer for the album on April 1, 2021. The Super Deluxe edition is presented across 6CD and 2 Blu-ray and also includes a 132-page book, War Is Over! poster and two postcards. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band will also be released on CD, 2CD, 6CD, and 2LP.
Wikipedia: Julia Baird is the younger half-sister of John Lennon and is the eldest daughter of his mother Julia Lennon (12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) and John 'Bobby' Albert Dykins (1918 – December 1965).
John Lennon was born in 1940 during Julia Lennon's marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she handed over the care of her son John to her sister Mimi. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was given up for adoption after pressure from her family. She then had two daughters, Julia and Jackie, with John 'Bobby' Dykins. She never divorced her husband Alfred Lennon, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life.
Julia Lennon was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humor. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. On 15 July 1958 at age 44, she was knocked down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. #JohnLennon was traumatized by her death and wrote several songs about her, including #TheBeatles "Julia" and "Mother".
