The guy was a total asshole! He ran out on Julian and rubbed it in his face by spending so much time with Sean. I don’t think a neglective parent is deserving of such an honor. Even Ozzie Osborne has been a better dad to his kids than John was.
The English must be hard up for celebrity names to immortalize. :rolleyes:
Well, I’m not as angered by the choice of John Lennon, but I do think its a disturbing trend that everything; whether its an airport, a freeway, mountain, asteroid, or a middle school just has to be named after someone famous these days.
He didn’t rub it in Julian’s face. When Julian was born, John was barely 20 years old, and becoming more and more popular with each passing day. He made his choice to be famous, to have the career he had been working for since he was 15. He wasn’t ready to have kids. Should he have treated Julian better? Yes. Did he have Sean just to rub it into Julian’s face? No.
I never said John had Sean to make Julian feel bad, did I.
He didn’t rub it in Julian’s face??? He told Julian’s mother that he didn’t want to see him. What is your definition of “rubbing it in”?
When John decided that he was ready to relax after Yoko had Sean, he still wanted nothing to do with Julian, even though he was no longer touring or in the studio and had all the time in the world. Now if that isn’t the biggest slap in the face ever, then what was it?
I understand choosing a career over a family, but you can’t start a family then bag it for your career. That’s called greed. Who cares how long he worked for it, that’s totally irrelevant. You know what kind of people abandon their kids? Crack smokers and f*ckups. Are those the kind of people we should name airports after?
Don’t tell me you had a kid when you were sixteen which is being raised by your mom, cause I don’t want to hear it.
So, being a good father is now a requirement to have an airport named after you? In that case, why don’t you just stay in the US and protest Reagan Airport in DC?
Hell, Washington owned slaves, and we named a whole state after him.
Commemorating people is in no way equivalent to claiming them to be perfect. I suggest you learn to deal with celebrities who are flawed human beings.
Julian, is that you?
waterj2,
That was them.
I know how to deal with flawed human beings, TYVM, you obviously read my post.
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I can see their slogan now:
John Lennon International Airport
We don’t bother to check if your smuggling drugs!
"While awaiting your flight, stop in at the Mr. Kite Bar & Grill. Today’s special is Yellow Matter Custard.
“Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need to search for luggage
We lost it in Milan”
Manhattan, you truly are a god.
That’s not the way I heard it. Julian visited John and Yoko at time or two in the early seventies, at least once in tandem with Yoko’s daughter Kyoko (now that’s a story, but I won’t get into it here). I don’t remember him telling Cynthia he didn’t want to see Julian, unless he was saying he didn’t want to see anyone. When Lennon was doing his drunken, Kotex-on-the-forehead binge in California, Julian visited him again. In the later 70s, when he was a teenager and John had gotten his shit together, Lennon made serious attempts to get them to know each other better. But by this time, Julian was in a typical adolescent “fuck-you-dad-you-didn’t-come-to-any-of-my-games” mode. Although when Lennon recorded an album of fifties rockabilly standards, Julian was in the studio and played drums on one track. By 1980, they were finally starting to find common ground.
Ruth Rendell: “Given time, they might have become friends. No time was to be given them.”
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He didn’t start a family and then bag it; he started a band and then forgot to use a condom. It was 1963. Marrying Cynthia instead of ditching her (which happened on the cusp of the Beatles’ success) was the honorable thing to do, by the standards of the day. In 1963, being a dad meant you paid for stuff; no one had heard of “quality time” or anything like that. Also bear in mind that when he married Cynthia, he thought he was going to earn enough for them to simply live comfortably. He had money to burn when Sean was born, but that didn’t mean he didn’t spend any on Julian. He paid for the airline tickets, for instance.
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What the hell are you talking about?
pepper, Lennon was actually 22, but good research!
Um, wouldn’t that be Paul McCartney International Airport? In Japan? 
My father and I both came from broken homes, just like Julian and John.
I was born in '65 and my parents split in '69. From a very early age, I wanted the Beatles and Bob Dylan to be my surrogate daddies.
OK, not John. He looked too much like the camp counselors at Zorthian’s Ranch, specially with the Abbey Road beard. But definitely Ringo and George. They were my fave fabs.
I’ve seen a photo. The statue is not standing, but rather seated on a park bench, Greenwich Village-style.
I guess if you’re either anti-Lennon or anti-Castro, this will confirm all your worst fears and prejudices.
The airport in question happens to be in my home town, but I don’t care much whether they name it after John Lennon or anyone else, and I certainly don’t think him being a less-than-perfect-by-today’s-standards-dad should disqualify him.
Now, if they’d named an airport after Buddy Holly - that would’ve been sick ;).