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Album Notes: Personnel: John Lennon (vocals, whistling, guitar, piano); Ted Turner, Rod Linton, John Tout, Joey Badfinger, Tommy Badfinger (acoustic guitar); George Harrison (dobro); Nicky Hopkins (piano); King Curtis (saxophone); John Barnam (harmonium, vibraphone); Klaus Voorman, Steve Brendell (bass, maracas); Alan White, Jim Keltner, Jim Gordon (drums, tibetian cymbals); Mike Pinder (tambourine). Includes a 16-page booklet. All tracks have been digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios. Considered together, IMAGINE and its startling predecessor JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND paint a vivid picture of the state of John Lennon immediately post Beatles. If JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND found John working out his hitherto repressed feelings about childhood and stardom, then the abiding impression of IMAGINE is John's one certainty in this storm of doubts and recrimination, his love for Yoko. "Jealous Guy," with its peerless vocal and a spot-on arrangement for strings, is sublime. "Oh My Love" is all delicacy and melodiousness. "Oh Yoko!" is a celebratory finale with none of the cloying self-obsession of John and Yoko's home movies. And on two other songs where Yoko is not the dominant theme, she is nevertheless invoked through the "oh no, oh no" refrain. That's not to say that love songs predominate. Half of the material covers similar terrain to JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND, but now there is hope and even light-heartedness. "Crippled Inside" is leavened by its country stylings including Dobro, courtesy of George Harrison, who also spices up two of the album's pivotal tracks, "Gimme Some Truth" and "How Do You Sleep?" The latter is a vitriolic attack on Paul McCartney.
Album Reviews: NME (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #34 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s. Q (7/00, p.140) - Included in Q's "The Best Male Angst Albums Of All Time" Rolling Stone (10/28/71, p.48) - "...On the evidence of IMAGINE, I don't think that John has resolved the manner in which a masterpiece and an artistic dead-end like POB can succesfully be followed....But then, great artists, of whom John is one, are nothing if not resourceful..." Q (4/00, pp.104-5) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...a strange, contrary record with touches of genius....extraordinarily beautiful....it is a signpost to one of the 20th Century's major figures....proof that genius is a series of fleeting moments..." Mojo (4/00, p.106) - "...Contains both the best and worst of the man - the idealist and the ranter, the righteous and the vindictive anger....So you take your choice between the pantheistic songs or the pissed-off plodders..."
Advantages: Beautiful, though-provoking, catchy, meaningful Disadvantages: More commercial than The Plastic Ono Band
...'Imagine' is one album that I will never be tired of hearing. The title track is quite possibly the best song ever written. The whole album is wonderful and no song lets the album down at all. 'Imagine' the album is brilliantly constructed, powerful and consistently catchy.
JohnLennon is rock music's biggest tragedy, but it's important to think about him in what he achieved in his life. Imagine is a very personal album, he really his spilling his soul in many of his song, especially Jealous Guy.
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1) Imagine is such a beautifully simple song, with such inspiring lyrics and a dreamy tune it's easily one of the best ever written.
2) Crippled Inside flows so well from Imagine, starting with 15 seconds or so of gentle yet upbeat acoustic guitar. The song evolves to be amazingly catchy while also having meaning...
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Advantages: An honest account of life with John Lennon. Disadvantages: Very little that hasn't been written already.
...I did a search on Amazon to see how many titles came up for Beatles books. Result: 1182. For JohnLennon: 445 results. So did we really need yet another book?
Cynthia Lennon was born in 1939, the week the war began and lived in Hoylake ("over the water" from where JohnLennon lived, in what was seen as a 'posh' area). She lost her father at 17 from cancer, which later would be one of the things that would bring her closer to John who had lost his mother at a similar age (It was also one of the few things he had in common with McCartney). Having won a scholarship to the Junior Art School in Liverpool at the age of 12, it now looked as if the death of her father would put a stop to her ambition to be an artist. Thankfully, her mother insisted that she continue her education. She started at the Liverpool College of Art in 1959...
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Advantages: Great lyrics, superb song. Classic that time will not forget Disadvantages: None
...I honestly believe that Imagine by JohnLennon is one of the best and most important songs ever written and performed, I'm sure many of you will agree with me about that. I'll tell you why:
The song is emotional, and more importantly truthful. Although, perhaps it has shows of sadness I believe that the song is very encouraging because it makes you think.
"Imagine there's no heaven,
Its easy if you try,
No hell below us
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people,
Living or today,
Imagine there?re no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion too,
Imagine all the people,
Living life in peace,
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will be as one,
Imagine no...
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