Mother (John Lennon song) Mother (John Lennon song) "Mother" is a song by English musician John Lennon, first released on his 1970 album "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band". An edited version of the song was issued as a single in the United States on Apple Records, on 28 December 1970. The single runs about 1:41 shorter than the album due to a lack of the tolling bells intro and a quicker fadeout. The B-side features "Why" by Yoko Ono. The song peaked in the United States at number 19 on the "Cashbox" Top 100 and number 43 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The lyrics of
Julian Lennon Julian sit in for his father as part of a Beatles reunion, with McCartney saying, "Why would we want to subject him to all of this?" In May 1998, Lennon released the album "Photograph Smile" to little commercial success. Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the album as "well-crafted and melodic", and concluded by saying that it was "the kind of music that would receive greater praise if it weren't made by the son of a Beatle". In 2002, he recorded a version of "When I'm Sixty-Four", from the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, for an Allstate