Everything changes

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Everything changes
Studio album by Julian Lennon

Publication
(s)

2011

Label (s) Conehead

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

12

occupation

production

chronology
Photograph Smile
(1998) 		Everything changes -

Everything Changes is the sixth and so far last album by the singer Julian Lennon . It was released in the UK in October 2011 and internationally in June 2013 with two additional songs.

Emergence

After Lennon had released his album Photograph Smile in 1998, he withdrew from the music business. He devoted himself to charity projects, was active as a producer of the documentary Whaledreamers in 2006 and devoted himself to photography from 2010. When asked why he was releasing a new album after a long time, Lennon replied in 2009: “I can't change it - I just come up with melodies and ideas for lyrics, whether I want to or not. Sometimes it really torments me, so I think I have to get rid of it somehow and write it down ”. In an interview in 2011 he added: “I get restless when I can't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then. [...] I have to do this, I have no choice ”.

The album was created over a longer period of time. The instrumentation was largely done in collaboration with friends on Lennon's estate, so backgrounds or bass lines were sometimes recorded during visits from friends - a work that Lennon described in retrospect as pleasant.

The album was already finished in 2007 and 2008 and even the title was fixed; however, publication was delayed several times. When Lucy Vodden, Lennon's former school friend and inspiration for the Beatles' title Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, died in 2009, Lennon released the charity single Lucy in memory of Vodden after an eleven year musical break . The 4-track EP, which was released in December 2009, was also a first extraction from Everything Changes with Beautiful . At this point, the album was due to be released in spring 2010. Lennon's album was finally released on October 3, 2011 in the UK and Ireland. The track Lookin '4 Luv was released as a single on September 11, 2011 .

The cover shows a black hand in front of a blue butterfly. In the butterfly, water, sky and clouds seem to mix. The hand, on the other hand, seems to have been dipped into the water, creating circles. Above the illustration is the word Everything Changes , aligned with a circle, and Julian Lennon's signature is also curved below the illustration. For him, the title Everything Changes is a constant reminder that things are changing, and he hopes for the better, Lennon said in 2011.

Starting in June 2013, the album Everything Changes was also released internationally with the additional songs Someday (Feat. Steven Tyler) and In Between .

On December 11, 2013, an acoustic version of the album with 14 songs was released in download format.

title

Original 2011 publication
  1. Everything Changes (Julian Lennon / Pete Vettese) - 4:08
  2. Lookin '4 Luv (Lennon / Vettese) - 4:12
  3. Hold On (Lennon / Gregory Darling) - 4:53
  4. Touch the Sky (Lennon / Vettese) - 4:24
  5. Invisible (Lennon / The Singhs / Buchanan) - 4:14
  6. Just for You (Lennon / Mark Spiro) - 4:20
  7. Always (Lennon / Justin Clayton) - 6:16
  8. Disconnected (Lennon / Vettese / Spiro) - 6:55
  9. Never Let You Go (Lennon / Guy Chambers) - 3:57
  10. Guess It Was Me (Lennon / Vettese / Ellis / Grant Ransom) - 3:48
  11. Don't Wake Me Up (Lennon / Darling) - 5:10
  12. Beautiful (Lennon / Darling) - 4:54
2013 release
  1. Everything Changes (Lennon / Vettese) - 4:08
  2. Someday (Feat. Steven Tyler) - 4:26
  3. Lookin '4 Luv (Lennon / Vettese) - 4:12
  4. Hold On (Lennon / Darling) - 4:53
  5. Touch the Sky (Lennon / Vettese) - 4:24
  6. Invisible (Lennon / The Singhs / Buchanan) - 4:14
  7. Just for You (Lennon / Spiro) - 4:20
  8. Always (Lennon / Clayton) - 6:16
  9. Disconnected (Lennon / Vettese / Spiro) - 6:55
  10. Never Let You Go (Lennon / Chambers) - 3:57
  11. Guess It Was Me (Lennon / Vettese / Ellis / Ransom) - 3:48
  12. In Between (Lennon / Spiro) - 3:49
  13. Don't Wake Me Up (Lennon / Darling) - 5:10
  14. Beautiful (Lennon / Darling) - 4:54

Further information

Lennon recorded piano, guitar, bass, Wurlitzer and drums on the album and programmed the strings and keyboards.

He described the songs on the album as "a little catchier than my previous releases" and stated that he thought the album was his best yet. It is an album "about life, and about things that we have to deal with every day".

In late 2009, Lennon described Beautiful as the slowest and most emotional track on the album; it is about the people he and his friends have already lost in life.

criticism

Andrew Perry of the Daily Telegraph was Everything Changes 2 of 5 stars and wrote that the album "a lazy exercise in dogmatic, pseudo- Imagine is -mäßigem Rumgequäle about the wickedness of the world," do not help the Lennon, finally out of the shadow of his father to kick.

The Daily Express gave it 3 out of 5 stars and found that some tracks had "something of the charm of the best John Lennon songs", Julian Lennon's voice was similar to his father's and the atmosphere of the album was as relaxed and mature as it could be would be expected by someone who is now nearly fifty. The conclusion was: “Nice stuff”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Whaledreamers on imdb.com
  2. ^ "I can't help it - I just have melodies and lyrical ideas that just come into my head whether I like it or not. I'm almost plagued by it… so I figure, I've got to get it out of my system. " after Monica Herrera: Song Debut: Julian Lennon's 'Lucy' . billboard.com, December 2, 2009.
  3. ↑ "I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then ... I have to do it; I don't have a choice. "Quoted from Julian Lennon announces new album 'Everything Changes' , September 13, 2011
  4. ↑ a b c Monica Herrera: Song Debut: Julian Lennon's 'Lucy' . billboard.com, December 2, 2009.
  5. ↑ Julian Lennon 2007 on Myspace. See diboland-world.blogspot.com
  6. ^ "A constant reminder that things change, for the better hopefully". See Ellen Layne: Julian Lennon New Video Lookin '4 Luv . misformusic.com, September 19, 2011 ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Julian Lennon - Lookin '4 Luv
  7. ^ "I think the album is a bit more free-flowing than my previous work and it's my favorite so far". Quoted from Julian Lennon announces new album 'Everything Changes' , September 13, 2011
  8. ↑ "[It] is about life, momentum, about what we have to deal with on an everyday basis". Quoted from Jerry Shriver: Julian Lennon, decade later, back in music biz with 'Lucy' . usatoday.com, November 23, 2009.
  9. ^ "It was written about people I know and my friends know that have passed on in life." after Monica Herrera: Song Debut: Julian Lennon's 'Lucy' . billboard.com, December 2, 2009.
  10. ↑ "A lethargically-paced exercise in dogmatic, sub-Imagine agonizing about how terrible the world is, it's hardly likely to help him emerge from his father's shadow." Cf. Andrew Perry: Julian Lennon: Everything Changes, CD review . telegraph.co.uk, September 29, 2011.
  11. ↑ "... tracks that do [...] have some of the loveliness of the best of John, a voice which is not a million miles away from his and a laid-back, mature vibe that you might expect from someone who is now working his way towards his 50s. Lovely stuff. ” CD Review - Everything Changes Julian Lennon (Nova) . express.co.uk, September 30, 2011.