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Julia, sleeping sand, silent cloud, touch me Her hair of floating sky is shimmering, glimmering

Julia, seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me White on White – The Beatles (white album) 50th Anniversary Includes the love story of John and Yoko. Spotlighted on The Beatles Channel, Sirius XM Radio Honorable Mention in The Beatles Gift Guide Now in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archives

The true story of the woman John Lennon loved. In Your Mind – The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono Julia was 44 years old at the time of her sudden death. The album was released just weeks prior to John’s death in 1980 at the age of 40. The song begins with his spoken-word dedication, ‘For the other half of the sky’. John’s final song for Yoko, for Julia and to all women, was the beautiful ‘Woman’ on Double Fantasy. During ‘Mother’, John desperately cries out for both of his parents to come home while also trying to let go of his pain and say goodbye. John included two heart-wrenching songs about his mother Julia, opening and closing his first post-Beatles solo album, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band (1970) ‘Mother’ and ‘My Mummy’s Dead’. Other songs for his wife and muse, include the joyful ‘Oh Yoko’ (also on Imagine), ’Aisumasen’ ,’You Are Here’ and ‘Out the Blue’ appear on Mind Games. …Oh my lover for the first time in my life In another of John’s most beautiful love songs (co-written by Yoko) on his Imagine album, elements of nature appear when she awakens him… John later wrote many more love songs to Yoko, including ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’, detailing the rocky road that they had begun to travel, not really knowing the extent of ‘how hard it can be.’ Another poignant lyric in which John steadfastly declared his independence and new beginning after the Beatles’ breakup was in his song ‘God’ on his first solo album John Lennon Plastic Ono Band. Two weeks before The Beatles was released in November 1968, John and Yoko had released their own first album together, Unfinished Music No. The most avant-garde piece was heavily influenced by her (‘Revolution 9’). Several of John’s songs on The Beatles (white album) were about his relationship with Yoko. In the opening line of his song of love, John ‘quipped Kahlil Gibran’ quoting his 1926 poem Sand and Foam, “Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.” Morning moon / Sleeping sand / Silent cloud…

Seashell eyes / Windy smile / Floating sky Ocean child (the meaning of Yoko’s name in English) In this beautifully gentle love song, John blends the auras of Julia and of Yoko who was soon to be his wife, using imagery from nature They became more like friends than like mother and son. She was, fun-loving and musical, with a great singing voice. The song is mainly about his estranged mother with whom he had bonded upon their reunion when John was a teenager. John performs the delicate acoustic ‘Julia’ completely alone. Back in London, they recorded the now classic double white album ( The Beatles). Upon their return from India, the Beatles worked from acoustic compositions they made there. John was falling deeply in love with Yoko, as his marriage to Cynthia deteriorated While in India John received surreal, arcane, comforting, confounding and intriguing messages from Yoko such as, ‘I’m a cloud, watch for me in the sky.’ He received daily message cards from her 13 Days Dance Festival – a 1967 event which ‘takes place in your mind.” While the Beatles studied Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968, John Lennon received many letters from Yoko Ono whom he had met just before her first London art exhibition opening just over a year prior. No part of this site may be reproduced or re-blogged in whole or in part in any manner without permission of the copyright owner.Īn all-embracing look at Yoko Ono’s life, music and art – in stunning detail.

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