Julian Lennon stepsister, Kyoko Chan Cox. Paul McCartney wrote "Hey Jude" to console him over the divorce; originally called "Hey Jules", McCartney changed the name because he thought that "Jude" was an easier name to sing. After his parents' divorce, Julian had almost no contact with his father until the early 1970s when, at the request of his father's then short-term girlfriend, May Pang (Yoko Ono and Lennon had temporarily separated), he began to visit his father regularly. John Lennon bought him a Gibson Les Paul guitar and a drum machine for Christmas 1973, and encouraged his interest in music by showing
Mother (John Lennon song) Makhalemele covered the song on an EP of Lennon covers in 1990. Shelby Lynne covered this song on her 2001 album "Love, Shelby". Christina Aguilera covered the song in 2007 for the benefit album "". Eminem sampled the song on the song for his song "Headlights", featured on the album "the Marshall Mathers LP 2". Folk artist, Jackie Oates, included a version of the song on her album The Joy of Living in 2018. The musicians who performed on the original recording were as follows: Lennon plays guitar rather than piano on the "Nowhere Boy" demo version. Mother (John Lennon