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Growing Up To Be Julian Lennon

Julian Lennon’s life has been as normal as a country-and-western Motley Crue album, as an outburst of David Lee Rothian modesty, as a Simon Le Bon boat trip that doesn’t end up on the rocks! It’s surprising Julian isn’t all washedup, with the things he’s been through: hidden by his mom, first wife of the Beatles’ John Lennon, back in a time when pop stars were meant to have the love life of a “Ken” doll, then exposed to the world in a glare of publicity when British reporters camped on his front lawn to reveal the news that his father had been murdered.

August 2, 1986
Sylvie Simmons

Growing Up To Be Julian Lennon

Sylvie Simmons

Julian Lennon’s life has been as normal as a country-and-western Motley Crue album, as an outburst of David Lee Rothian modesty, as a Simon Le Bon boat trip that doesn’t end up on the rocks! It’s surprising Julian isn’t all washedup, with the things he’s been through: hidden by his mom, first wife of the Beatles’ John Lennon, back in a time when pop stars were meant to have the love life of a “Ken” doll, then exposed to the world in a glare of publicity when British reporters camped on his front lawn to reveal the news that his father had been murdered.

But here he is, a week before his 23rd birthday, a month before his first-ever tour of his home country, an hour before his second visit of the week to the dentist (the legacy of a terrible addiction to— cookies), friendly, funny, honest, frank, and pretty, well, normal.

The same guy who tore up the countryside on his motorcycle?

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