Since then, Lennon has established the Cynthia Lennon Scholarship for Girls in Kenya, and now the U.S., was honored with the CC Forum Philanthropy Award in Monaco, was named a UNESCO Center for Peace 2020 Cross-Cultural and Peace Crafter Award Laureate, has authored several books including the trilogy “Touch the Earth,” “Heal the Earth” and “Love the Earth,” and the children’s graphic novel “The Morning Tribe.” And his documentary, “Kiss the Ground,” about soil regeneration, aired on Netflix in late 2020. He took it as a sign and went on to produce a documentary called “Whaledreamers” and founded the White Feather Foundation in 2007 to shine a light on a range of environmental and humanitarian issues. So when Julian Lennon was on tour in Australia, he received a white feather from two elders of the Mirning tribe asking him to help tell their story. As the story goes, John Lennon had told him that should he die, he would use a white feather to let his son know he was at peace.
Those dreams included the creation of the White Feather Foundation.
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In general, structure was part of what made his music so great, and this is, in my opinion, why all of his songs, even the more layered and complexly arranged songs in his later catalogue (XO and onwards) can be arranged to a single guitar and voice and still have the exact same impact on the listener, something which simply could not be done with his experimental later works, which at times were almost entirely electronic, spare a few drum parts that could just as easily have been done with sampled drums with roughly the same effect.Julian Lennon hasn’t released an album in 11 years, but plans to release “Jude” in September. I think that while Elliott's purely musical style was no doubt a spectacle of popular music, in terms of his idiosyncratic chord progressions/harmonic movement, his inherent, visceral understanding of voice leading and arranging, and his impeccable sense of melody, his songwriter side is also a very big part of what makes me like his music so much, and that framework of songwriting and song structure is also a very essential part of the greatness of his music, atleast to me, which is somewhat lost in his later experimental instrumentals (see, again, Melodic Noise, not many works like that one), which feel more like an experimental modern classical or minimalist piece than a tune of popular music. Imho, Basement would have been his seminal piece (and it's my fav, although #2 changes all the time), but I don't know if I would like his purely purely experimental, less structured, non lyrical work (e.g.
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