# Julian Lennon Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-lennon-question/384758>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 19, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-lennon-question/384758 "2006-12-19T06:22:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-lennon-question/384758/1 "2006-12-19T06:22:02Z")

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Didn’t want to hijack my own “Beatles’ Kids…” thread, so here’s a question someone may be able to help answer:

On Julian’s present website there’s a mention made of a song he allegedly stole from his Dad’s vault: [Julian-Lennon.com](http://www.julian-lennon.com/#bio).

He later regretted this, didn’t record it and got Yoko to buy out the contract of the record company that was going to release the tune.

My question: What _was_ the song, and have we heard it already?

Thanks

Quasi

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**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-lennon-question/384758/2 "2006-12-19T15:01:49Z")

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Well, the article implies he backed out before anything was actually recorded, so we probably haven’t heard Julian’s version (unless maybe you’re a big collector of Julian’s working tapes).

Now, if we can find the name of the song, it probably wouldn’t be hard to find a version of it by his father. John recorded everything. His tape recorder was essentially his scratch pad and he left a lot of unfinished demo tapes when he died.

He was in the middle of a massive onslaught of ideas and creativity that he had all but abandoned from 1976 - 79. A lot of these tapes found their way onto posthumous albums “[Menlove Ave](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlove_Ave.)” (essentialy outtakes from 1975’s “Rock & Roll”) & “Milk & Honey” (essentially leftover demos from 1980s “Double Fantasy”) but were best presented as a whole package on the [John Lennon Anthology](http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-John-Lennon/dp/B00000DG1Q) box set.