“We keep saying, and he keeps telling me, that we’re going to try and push for this, this year, sooner than later anyway.”
Lennon’s first son was only 17 when his father died in 1980. Julian says he has good memories of his father, but he wants more, something he says McCartney, 81, has promised.
Lennon, speaking with Bill Maher in a sit-down for the comedian’s podcast, “Club Random,” said he’s only really been in a similar situation with McCartney once, when they ran into each other in a London airport last year.
“He was in Heathrow Airport sitting on his own just chatting away with earpods in, some conversation,” Lennon told Maher of a meeting Lennon memorialized on social media (see the post below). “And a friend of a friend said, ‘Your Uncle Paul’s outside,’ and I said, ‘What?’ So I sneak outside and come up behind him and say, ‘Hey, Paul.’ He almost had a heart attack, of course. And we sat there chatting away for a little bit.”
“It’s Amazing who you run into in an airport Lounge!” he tweeted, alongside the black-and-white snap of himself with Macca. “None other than Uncle Paul…. So, so lovely, and what are the chances… Thankful….,” he wrote
“It’s weird,” Lennon said. “… We’re close but we’re not that close.
“We know a great deal about each other but we’ve never even done this,” Lennon added, extending his hands in a pointing gesture to his and Maher’s sit-down setup. “I mean, apart from that moment in Heathrow. And we keep saying, and he keeps telling me, that we’re going to try and push for this, this year, sooner than later anyway. He keeps telling me I’ve got so many stories about your dad that I’ve never told anybody that I want you to hear about. And you know, he gave me some samples I thought I’d never heard before. But we just got to find the time to lock in to do that.”
“I think also for him,” Maher said. “Because for him, I mean just talking to you now. … It’s the best of your father without any artifice from you — you’re not like trying. So for him, I think that would be such a delightful thing, the closest thing he’ll ever have to talking to his old friend. And you turned out well. It’s not like you turned out a ne’er-do-well.”
“I don’t think you can dismiss, you know, the sons or daughters of artists, especially if they picked up on a few things,” Lennon said. “It’s been a long life, and I’ve worked hard at what I do, to write, to be a good songsmith, maybe not as commercial as some. But I stuck to my guns on that, so to speak.”
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