But his last album, 2022’s “Jude,” was indeed a reference to “Hey Jude,” the 1968 No. 1 hit by The Beatles. Paul McCartney originally wrote the song “Hey Jules” — a reference to Julian’s nickname — to comfort John’s young son after his father left his mother for Ono.

Julian Lennon, the eldest son of the legendary Beatles singer-songwriter John Lennon, says he and his father had a rather distant relationship. "You have to realise that when Dad left, when I was between three and five (it was a bit of a process),

I visited him on the odd occasion but we were very much on the outside." But Julian went on to reference his younger brother, Yoko Ono and Lennon's son Sean, as he praised their sibling relationship,

Julian Lennon may be the eldest son of John Lennon, but in a recent interview with The Guardian he admitted that he's not part of The Beatles' "inner circle" and never has been. The subject came up when he was asked about his thoughts on the newfound interest surrounding the Fab Four after Peter Jackson's Get Back and Martin Scorsese's Beatles '64 documentaries.