Julian Lennon Runs into ‘Uncle’ Paul McCartney at Airport

Destiny works in mysterious methods, as Julian Lennon and Paul McCartney came upon Saturday.

The 59-year-old musician and son of late Beatles member John Lennon tweeted that he ran into his father’s former bandmate at an airport by sheer luck.

“It is Superb who you run into in an airport lounge! None apart from Uncle Paul….” Julian tweeted. “So, so beautiful, and what are the probabilities… Grateful….”

Julian posted two black-and-white pictures together with the tweet, one in all him posing for a selfie with McCartney, 80.

Within the second photograph, McCartney factors to his telephone displaying Julian’s seventh studio album Jude, which was launched in September. The album’s cowl artwork depicts Julian as a younger boy in a white button-up shirt, wanting over his shoulder.

Coincidentally, the “Too Late for Goodbyes” singer named his new album after the Beatles hit “Hey Jude,” which McCartney wrote for Julian when he was 5 years previous amid his dad and mom John and Cynthia Lennon’s divorce.

In April, Julian revealed on the SiriusXM Quantity radio present Debatable that he had a “love-hate relationship” with the track.

“I’m grateful to Paul for writing it and placing some hope behind what was to come back,” Julian defined. “However the draw back of it was it was a darkish reminder of what really went down on the time, the separation.”

Since then, Julian has discovered to embrace the track and informed PEOPLE in September that there was a message behind the similarity in title between his album and the Beatles monitor.

RELATED Video: Julian Lennon Says He ‘Always Hoped’ He’d Get to Place of Peace After Forgiving Dad John Years Ago

“It was very much reflective, wanting within the mirror deeply and looking for that place of peace,” he stated. “I discovered it one or two instances earlier than, nevertheless it received misplaced within the muddle of life. Engaged on the album was about getting in contact with myself and who I’m.”

By no means miss a narrative — join PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to remain up-to-date on one of the best of what PEOPLE has to supply, from juicy celeb information to driving human curiosity tales.

Julian stated that though he hasn’t “carried any negativity” over his father leaving for a very long time, he nonetheless has to “work by just a few knots right here and there,” and Jude helped open a brand new chapter for him, along with his name change in 2020.

“I needed to show to myself that I am a lot greater than John’s son or being [fans’] model of John in lots of people’s minds,” Julian stated. “That was necessary to me, to construct a basis to myself exterior of music, that I used to be able to absolutely anything I put my thoughts and coronary heart to. I can maintain my head up excessive.”