Lennon denies copying father

John Lennon's son Julian has denied trying to follow in his father's footsteps by making a movie about the environment.

Lennon junior produced documentary The Gathering: Return of the Whale Dreamers which premiered at this year's Cannes Festival.

But the 44-year-old denies he is trying to imitate his father's political protests.

He said: "I admire what he did enormously. But we are not jumping on the bandwagon.

"We never did it to make money, we started ten years ago so we were before Al Gore and 9/11."