Description
Emotional echoes of the artist’s complicated public history reverberate through his album’s solid collection of mature mid-tempo rockers and ballads.
Jude is Julian Lennon’s seventh studio album, and his first album of new material in over ten years. His last album, Everything Changes, noted a change in Lennon’s music. His music became more complicated, and lyrically grappling with a great many internal and external issues. Jude is the same. This is a much more mature, content, and reflective Julian Lennon. During the last ten years he has released a number of singles, most of which were collaborations. It would seem that the exercise in collaborating with others and releasing singles assisted him in further defining his sound and craft. This is an album full of melodic, hard edged pop/rock songs with very strong lyrics.
From the original announcement: The album title, Jude, is a nod to the legendary song “Hey Jude,” by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney to comfort 5-year-old Julian following his parents’ separation. Originally written as “Hey Jules,” McCartney changed “Jules” to “Jude” because he thought it sounded better in the song.
Even though Lennon talks of having a love/hate relationship with the song, because it’s a reminder of an unhappy time in his life, he’s thankful for the support expressed through the lyrics.
