JULIAN LENNON: The musician and activist just released his first album in over a decade, ‘Jude’. He speaks to Mark Beaumont about coming to terms with his own identity, fighting to save the planet, and the ‘shedding of a skin’ that took place when he changed his name

When hotel management called to tell Julian Lennon there was an indigenous tribe waiting for him downstairs, he didn’t believe it. “On the road, a lot of pranks are played,” he says, recalling a fateful day while on tour in Adelaide to support his ecological 1991 hit “Saltwater”. He had no idea that the course of his life and work was about to be fundamentally diverted. “I honestly thought it was a prank. ‘You have an indigenous tribe downstairs’, and I go ‘Yeah, right, send the coffee up’.”

Talked down to the lobby, Lennon found about 50 members of the Aboriginal Mirning tribe, one of the ,,,,,

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