Julia (Beatles song)
November 22, 1968
Julia is a song by The Beatles, released on 22 November 1968 the double album The Beatles as the last track of the first CD or LP.
It is one of the songs that John Lennon composed during the visit to India of the Beatles. As copyright Lennon / McCartney stated. Like Dear Prudence Lennon accompanied on the guitar in only recently learned at the time of Donovan in India fingerpicking style. In the text, John also sings of an "ocean child", which Yoko Ono is meant. The Japanese VornameYoko means " ocean child ".
The recordings of the piece took place at London's Abbey Road Studios on 13 October 1968. On these recordings only John Lennon was involved, who played the acoustic guitar and sang the title. Using the overdubbing process, he added the additional vocal parts. It is the only piece of the Beatles, on the exclusive John Lennon is heard. It was produced by George Martin song.
On the Anthology 3 album published in 1996, an alternate version of the song is included. To hear there is also Paul McCartney, Lennon from the control room of the recording studio gives advice.
In an interview with Playboy magazine in 1980, John Lennon confirmed that he had written for his mother Julia Julia Lennon and Yoko Ono:
Playboy: " Her name what Julia was not, it? Is she the Julia of your song of did name on, The White Album? ' "
Lennon: "The song is for her - and for Yoko. "
After Lennon's parents separated early, his mother gave him to his aunt Mimi, so he got to see his mother rarely. When he as a teenager just rebuilt a stronger relationship with her, she was run over by a drunken policeman. This was a major turning point in Lennon's life that shaped his cynical and sometimes depressive personality, and he was looking to work with Arthur Janov's later primary therapy.
Lennon: " That was another big trauma for me. I lost her twice. Once When I Was moved in with my auntie. And once again at seventeen When She Actually, physically died. That was very traumatic for me. That was really a hard time for me. It made me very, very bitter. " (Source: Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono; U.S. edition of January 1981 )