{"id":1433004,"date":"2022-04-12T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433004"},"modified":"2022-04-12T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:14:54","slug":"john-lennons-son-julian-reneges-on-promise-to-never-perform-imagine-during-concert-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-lennons-son-julian-reneges-on-promise-to-never-perform-imagine-during-concert-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon\u2019s Son Julian Reneges On Promise To Never Perform \u2018Imagine\u2019 During Concert For Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-lennons-son-julian-reneges-on-promise-to-never-perform-imagine-during-concert-for-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Julian-Lennon-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>It\u2019s one of those songs that\u2019s either loved or hated. Either way, there\u2019s no denying that John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d has become a cultural phenomenon across the globe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lennon\u2019s son Julian promised he\u2019d never play the song in public as a form of deference to his late father. The 59-year-old singer-songwriter, however, broke that vow this month when he played \u201cImagine\u201d during the \u201cStand For Ukraine\u201d social media rally put on by Global Citizen April 8, Upworthy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/john-lennon-son-performs-imagine?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Julian sang while musician Nuno Bettencourt accompanied him on the guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><span>\u201cThe War on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy\u2026 As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most significant way I could,\u201d Lennon wrote.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201cSo today, for the first time ever, I publicly performed my Dad\u2019s song, IMAGINE. Why now, after all these years? \u2014 I had always said, that the only time I would ever consider singing \u2018IMAGINE\u2019 would be if it was the \u2018End of the World\u2019\u2026But also because his lyrics reflect our collective desire for peace worldwide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He continued, \u201cBecause within this song, we\u2019re transported to a space, where love and togetherness become our reality, if but for a moment in time\u2026 The song reflects the light at the end of the tunnel, that we are all hoping for\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a result of the ongoing murderous violence, millions of innocent families, have been forced to leave the comfort of their homes, to seek asylum elsewhere,\u201d Julian concluded. \u201cI\u2019m calling on world leaders and everyone who believes in the sentiment of IMAGINE, to stand up for refugees everywhere! Please advocate and donate from the heart. #StandUpForUkraine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Julian is the son of John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia Lennon. The couple was married for six years and divorced when Julian was just five years old. Then John married Yoko Ono in 1969 and had the former Beatles member\u2019s second son, Sean Ono Lennon, in 1975.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cImagine\u201d has been used for a variety of purposes as a way to promote world peace from a secular standpoint. Actress Gal Gadot <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gal-gadot-admits-cringe-worthy-imagine-sing-a-long-was-in-poor-taste\"><span>came under fire<\/span><\/a><span> at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 when she convinced a group of celebrities to perform their own rendition of the song. Later, the \u201cWonder Woman\u201d star admitted the performance was \u201cin poor taste.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was calling Kristen [Wiig] and I was like, \u2018Listen, I want to do this thing,\u2019\u201d Gadot told InStyle in their February 2022 issue. \u201cThe pandemic was in Europe and Israel before it came here [to the US] in the same way. I was seeing where everything was headed. But [the video] was premature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Israeli star continued, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the right timing, and it wasn\u2019t the right thing. It was in poor taste. All pure intentions, but sometimes you don\u2019t hit the bull\u2019s-eye, right?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Enter for the chance to hang out with Gina Carano at the premiere of her new Daily Wire movie, Terror on the Prairie! Two lucky Daily Wire members will be given the complete red carpet treatment \u2013 free airfare, hotel, premiere car service, and exclusive merch. Daily Wire members can click<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/redcarpet\"> <i><span>here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> to enter for a chance to win. If you\u2019re not a Daily Wire member yet, click<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> <i><span>here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> to join us so you can win this once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of those songs that\u2019s either loved or hated. Either way, there\u2019s no denying that John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d has become a cultural phenomenon across the globe.\u00a0Lennon\u2019s son Julian promised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}