"Julia," John Lennon's occult song, a love letter to his dead mother
Story John Lennon lost his mother at 17. In 1968, in "The White Album," he addresses her, beyond death, in a piece that is almost like a turntable.
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"Half of what I say doesn't make sense, but I'm just saying it to get to you, Julia."
So sings John Lennon in "Julia," on "The Beatles," a record released in 1968 and better known as "The White Album." A bit of genealogy: Julia is John Lennon's mother, a pretty, mischievous, redhead. Born Julia Stanley in Liverpool in 1914, she married sailor Alfred Lennon in 1938. Two years after their marriage, John was born.…
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