ROCK 108 Morning Show - Julian Lennon sings "Imagine"

So, Julian Lennon.

Yep.

You heard that he covered his father's song.

Imagine.

I'm a little disgusted.

Okay.

I don't think that's right.

He broke his long-standing vow never to perform his father's most iconic song.

He was corrected that vow.

Why did he break it?

He said today for the first time ever, I publicly performed my dad's song.

Because for the stand-up for the Ukraine campaign, it's a global fundraising effort to broadcast from Warsaw.

All right, whatever.

It's a video clip showing Julian and a friend of yours.

Do you know Betancourt?

No, no!

So.

So first of all,

what's the song?

It's Imagine.

Imagine is one of the worst songs ever written.

Ooh, what?

It is a communist manifesto.

It's disgusting.

And Lenin rejected it later in his life when

he

became a Reagan Republican.

He's like, I don't even know why I wrote that.

It's ridiculous.

All right.

So let's listen to it to find out how close he gets to his father.

OK.

All right.

And remember, you know Betancourt's playing too.

I'm going to leave the mics on so I can hear your

reaction.

OK.

heaving.

I

see

a mouth in words.

He sounds like

a wish version of

John.

But he sounds like his dad.

A little bit.

But like a bad version of his dad.

You want me to kill

it?

Give me one more.

Pretty good.

It's

like an old man that can't hold the...

Sounds like

John.

Here we

go.

I

don't know.

I'm gonna kill it.

Julian... Nuno does provide some harmonies a little bit later in the song, too.

Julian was one of the smelliest rock stars ever to sit next to me in the

studio.

Tell me this story, please.

I

don't know.

He was on the road.

It was during the Vallottes when he had that solo album on Atlantic.

Okay.

And he came to the studio to do an interview.

Wouldn't play acoustic.

And when he walked in the studio, you know the smell of old laundry?

Yes.

Like a locker room kind of.

Yeah.

OK.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm sure there's a tour bus equivalent.

Sure.

After you've been on tour

for a while and you don't get to the laundromat as much.

Let's think about his mother here.

His mother was like the ultimate hippie.

So you think he was wearing any deodorant?

Probably not.

No.

No.

It's that linen musk.

Yeah.

It was a tough smell.

That's

the big thing I remember about Julian.

So is this why you don't like the song?

Is that what it was?

OK, let's take away from the song itself and your feelings toward the song.

How was the rendition of it being that he is John Lennon's son?

Not produced well.

OK.

Look, if you're going to do it, do it.

That sounded like they set up a cassette recorder with a realistic microphone.

You're not far off.

It looked like it was a blue Yeti mic for podcasters.

You get it for a hundred bucks at Best Buy,

right?

But Nuno, I mean, I figured you amongst anybody else would love the fact that Nuno was involved.

Look, I love Nuno.

Nuno can do no wrong.

Everybody wants Nuno on their projects.

Yeah.

So nice try, Julian.