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.

John Lennon's love letter to The Beatles, "Now and Then," reworked and released in 2023, may win a Grammy—for Paul and Ringo, but not for Lennon himself.

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,