Julian Lennon, the eldest son of the legendary Beatles singer-songwriter John Lennon, says he and his father had a rather distant relationship. "You have to realise that when Dad left, when I was between three and five (it was a bit of a process),

"I'm just as curious as anybody else, although I do find myself going, 'how is it possible that there's another Beatles film?'"

You’d be a hard-hearted soul not to feel at least a shred of sympathy for Julian Lennon. It can’t have been easy, for all the reasons you’d expect. Though he’s enjoyed a decent-ish career in music (Top Ten hits,