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So whats everyone’s favorite Julian album? Personally mine is Everything Changes but Photograph Smile is a close second.

Yeah lets just say im dating Matt.. And also Mr. Jordan is amazing i love the stuff Frampton brings to the album.

I would suggest this album to everyone! Its Photograph Smile, Julian had always said this and Everything Changes were his favorite albums he has ever made. Julian was very happy and content with his life during this time. This was around 1998/1999, he came back to music after a 5 year hiatus. He was engaged at this time to a girl named Lucy Bayliss (she is not Lucy in the sky btw) she is a model and she even managed Julians wesbite during its early days. Cyn had one of her first exhibitions of her artwork, Julian and Lucy attended. Those two were also at Paul’s Rock and Roll induction. He dedicated the opening track ‘Day After Day’ to his ex-girlfriend Olivia d’Abo (who Julian also engaged years prior but she broke it off due to Julian being so busy with music.) Julian has also dedicated two songs off this album to his fiancée Lucy, those songs are Kiss Beyond the Catcher and Way to Your Heart. Julian has always said he was super close to George Harrison during this time. (Julian specifically said in George’s later life he became so close to him frequently visiting Friar Park whenever he was in England.) George has done quite a bit in Julian’s life. Being the biggest supporter of Julian’s music, George had attended several of Julian’s shows. George became a massive influence to Julians later music (Jules introduced slide guitar and the usage of sitar in his later work.) George had even played the guitar solo on Saltwater, although he isn’t credited. Anyways im derailing my own thread. Imagine derailing your own thread. 

Ron Nasty said
My problem with Julian is that he often like sounds like a mid-’70s John tribute act. He got away with on Valotte because of the shock value, but then it becomes a case of diminishing returns. And then there’s the often whiney “I should have been treated better” statements which often mislead.

For instance, he’ll mention he has no income from John’s songs while Sean does, but not mention that he did, and sold it, or complain about having to “buy back his heritage” because of Yoko when she hasn’t done the big auction of John’s belongings, and most of what Julian has bought on the auction market, including instruments, were given away as gifts by a still-alive John…

Sorry. I wish I could like him more. He was the first out of the traps and has often handled being Beatle Child #1 very badly.

  

I agree, I mean I love Julian for other reasons. Julian i will admit is a bit too whiney for my liking (personally he should just get over himself sometimes good lord hes 56 and hes still whining over his father like a 2 year old.) Julian always said “Dads first family got nothing so I had to buy it back.” Julian plays it off like John/Yoko are horrible human beings. To this day Julian still believes the mindset that him and Cynthia after the divorce were broke and that she had to hold down 3 jobs just to support her and Julian. That isnt true because from the divorce settlement that money is supposed to last until Julian turned 21. Some of the narratives Julian plays off makes me turn my head slightly and say “uhhh.” For now Julian seems to have somewhat calmed down on the whiney part. Hes on good terms with Yoko and he was actually impressed on some of the recent stuff Yoko has done. Julian has also somewhat calmed down on John (although im not holding my breath), Julian recently appeared in a John & Yoko doc called “Above Us Only Sky” and was talking about the fond memories he had in Ascot. I will admit Julian’s music is a bit bland for me that’s why i tend to gravitate towards Seans music more for that uniqueness. It just feels like Julian doesnt have his own voice and he prefers to sound like others. Obviously he sounds heavily like John and personally I think thats on purpose. I pointed this out to Matt and others that on Mr. Jordan and a few songs off of Help Yourself, Julian started to take the David Bowie approach to much and basically sound like Bowie. I Get Up off of Mr. Jordan is another good one to bring up, to me it has like a weird Elvis vibe to it.