of his life, but also served to draw him closer to McCartney, who had also lost his mother at an early age. Her memory inspired songs such as the 1968 Beatles song "Julia", with its dreamlike imagery of "hair of floating sky glimmering", recalling John's boyhood memories of his mother. He remarked that the song "was sort of a combination of Yoko [Ono] and my mother blended into one". "Mother" and "My Mummy's Dead" were both written under the influence of Arthur Janov's "Primal Scream" therapy, and released on his solo album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band in 1970. John's first son, Julian, born in 1963, was named after her. When he inducted John Lennon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, Paul McCartney described Julia in his speech as a very beautiful woman with long red hair who played the ukulele. He commented that he had to teach John the guitar chords since John would just play the ukulele chords that his mother had taught him on guitar. Portrayals on film She was portrayed by Christine Kavanagh in In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000), and by Anne-Marie Duff in Nowhere Boy (2009). Notes References External links The Liverpool Lennons Lennon family tree – Lennon.net Stanley Parkes' recollections of his family Lennon's homes 'My Son John' lyrics—sung by David Whitfield—1956 1914 births 1958 deaths 20th-century accordionists 20th-century Anglicans 20th-century English musicians 20th-century English people 20th-century English women 20th-century pianists British ukulele players English accordionists English Anglicans English banjoists English women pianists Julia Muses Pedestrian road incident deaths People from Toxteth Restaurant staff Road incident deaths in England