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Jun 17 2009 by Laura Davis, Liverpool Daily Post

BEFORE the gunshot that robbed the world of Liverpool's most famous musician,
John Lennon told his son that if he ever died he would contact him by means of a
white feather.

This symbol of his love for Julian, then just a boy, is the name to a new
exhibition that gives an intimate portrait of life with the former Beatle.

Julian and his mother Cynthia Lennon visited Liverpool yesterday to launch White
Feather: Spirit of Lennon at the Beatles Story's new second site at the Pier
Head.

Among the memorabilia on display are photographs of the Lennon family, childhood
drawings, newspaper cuttings and recording notes for Hey Jude, written for
Julian by Paul McCartney.

Julian, now 46, bought the notes at auction along with many of the other items
included in the exhibition.

He said: "Nothing was passed to me after Dad passed so the only way I could
regain any of his belongings or Beatles works was to buy them.

"I felt that if I have a family I would want them to have the heritage."

Other personal possessions include Lennon's Honda "monkey bike" motorbike and an
electric guitar inscribed with the message "To Julian from Daddy, Christmas
1973', revealing a 20-year tale of John Lennon's home life and music career.

Cuttings from the Daily Post telling how the Cynthia was separated from the
musician at Euston Station and missed the train home to Liverpool show how
difficult coping with fame can be.

Julian said he had learned to come to terms with his anger over his father
breaking up his family in the late 1960s.

"I realised that anger used up a lot of time and energy and I'd rather redirect
that into positive things."

One of these was setting up the White Feather Foundation, a charity that
supports a variety of good causes right across the globe.

The exhibition includes a video of Julian talking about setting up the
foundation after being handed a white feather by an Aborgininal tribesman on a
visit to Australia.

He said: "We have been working on this exhibition for quite a while so to
actually see it today was a very proud moment for me.

There are a lot of pictures that "I have great hopes of expanding it and sharing
more of our days together."