John Lennon's son is no copycat of his dad

[nowheregirl]

DailyIndia.com

Beatles' star John Lennon's son, singer-songwriter Julian, denies copying his dad's political protests in making an environmental issue film.

Julian produced a documentary 'The Gathering: Return of the Whale Dreamers' about an aboriginal tribe and its special relationship to whales.

The film, which also touches on a lot of environmental issues, has received many awards and was shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

The 44-year-old revealed that he admired his dad's fight against Vietnam War and everything he did, but he was not 'jumping on the bandwagon'.

"I admire what he did enormously. But we are not jumping on the bandwagon," he added.

He insisted that he started his work 10 years ago and it was not followed by 9/11 happenings and nor was a copy of politician Al Gore's environmental campaign.

"We never did it to make money, we started ten years ago so we were before Al Gore and 9/11," he said.

[nocturnalquadruped]

saltwater is a direct protest against the damage we are doing to the environment. This song was released well before 9/11.

[jean]

I don't think it's fair to compare Julian's work for the environment with his father's work for peace. There's really no connection - Whale Dreamers is completely different to anything John did.

On the same subject, this is the website for the Whale Dreamers documentary. There are lots of recent pictures of Julian, and some newspaper articles.

www.whaledreamers.com

[Alan The Walrus]

I agree Jean. I was thinking the same thing as you when reading that. I had heard of Whale Dreamers and think that it is most noble and interesting.