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
Julian S. Garcia essay, "The New Age of Chicano Music" was included in a special edition of "ViAztlan", No. 3., No. 2. His story, "Don Cheno's Icehouse" subsequently appeared in "ViAztlan" (March, 1985). Poet Alurista published Garcia's "The Harvest" in the 1986 edition of "Southwest Tales: A Contemporary Collection" (Colorado State: Maize Press). In 1986 the University of Arizona published his story, "El Viaje" in its biannual journal, "Saguaro". After a ten-year hiatus, Garcia got back into fiction and published "La Fantastica Curandera" in "Puentes" (Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, ed. Jesus Rosales). Julian S. Garcia Julian S. Garcia has been involved