Julian Lennon says his new album, "Everything Changes," came about gradually.
”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,” he says.
Eventually, he had the basic ideas for over 30 songs, 12 of which will be in "Everything Changes," which is produced by Lennon and Grant Ransom. The album was made with a little help from a few of his personal friends.
He describes it as “a bit more free-flowing than my previous work, and it’s my favourite [album] so far”.
The album, his first since 1998, comes out in early October in the UK. The single, "Lookin’ 4 Luv," is being played on BBC Radio and available on iTunes in the UK.
The album has been in the works for a while and been delayed before. In a 2009 interview with Larry Rodgers of the Arizona Republic, Lennon said even though he hasn't released an album since 1998, he never abandoned music.
"It's not that I stopped writing," he told Rodgers. "It was just that I was fed up with the industry and the people in it, because there was nothing to do with music, and there hadn't been for years. It was all about making money.
After the last album (1998's "Photograph Smile"), which I did love working on . . . I went out and promoted it . . . but I felt I had been let down yet again (by those marketing the album). I said, "Enough of this. I'm out of here."
In recent years Lennon has been involved with photography, filmmaking and philanthropic work, including his White Feather Foundation.
Album tracklisting:
- Everything Changes
- Lookin’ 4 Luv
- Hold On
- Touch the Sky
- Invisible
- Just for You
- Always
- Disconnected
- Never Let You Go
- Guess It Was Me
- Don’t Wake Me Up
- Beautiful
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