No other Beatle sings or plays on the song. So I said, "Well, when you think of the song, where do you imagine yourself?" And John said, "I'm at a beach and I'm holding hands with my mother and we're walking together." And I helped him with a couple of lines, "Seashell eyes / windy smile" – for the Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland feel that John loved so much. I want to write a song about the childhood that I never really had with my mother." He asked me to help him with the images that he could use in lyrics for a song about this subject. He said, "Donovan, you're the king of children's songs. He told me he wanted to write a song about his mother. It was here that Lennon learned the song's finger-picking guitar style (known as ' Travis-picking') from the Scottish musician Donovan. It was written during the Beatles' 1968 visit to Rishikesh in northern India, where they were studying under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. "Julia" was written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney) in the key of D major and features Lennon on vocals and acoustic guitar. In 1976, it was issued as the B-side of the Beatles single " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". The track is the final song on side two (disc one on CD) of The Beatles and was the last song recorded for the album. The song was written by Lennon (though credited to Lennon–McCartney) about his mother Julia Lennon, who died in 1958 at age 44. It is performed as a solo piece by John Lennon. " Julia" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). (depicting George Harrison and Ringo Starr)
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