Imagine is John Lennon's second studio album. Recorded and released in 1971, the album was produced more in contrast to the basic, crude arrangement of the previous album, which is critically acclaimed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band .
This album is the most popular of his solo works and the song title is considered as one of Lennon's best songs. In 2012, Imagine 80th selected on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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While in New York, ex-Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison underwent a short hour session. At this session, Lennon asks Harrison if he wants to appear on Lennon's next album, with a recording that will start within a week at Ascot Sound Studios Lennon at his Tittenhurst Park residence. Harrison says yes, and will ask friend and bassist Klaus Voormann, via a phone call, if he wants to come to the recording session.
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Recording and structure
The first songs, "It's So Hard" and "I Do not Want Be Be Soldier", were recorded in February 1971 at Abbey Road Studios, during a session for Lennon's single "Power to the People". (Another source gives the location as Ascot.) A cover of The Olympics' 1958 "Well (Baby Please Do not Go)", which was later released on John Lennon Anthology, was recorded in June 1971, during recording this album. Lennon will choose to re-create "I Do not Want Be Be Soldier" after the main album sessions are in progress.
Lennon sought help from Nicky Hopkins, band members Apple Badfinger, Alan White and Jim Keltner. George Harrison will also stop by to donate the main guitar parts on various songs. The recording for the album began on June 23, 1971, at Ascot Sound Studios. Lennon showed the musicians a song he just wrote, the title song of the album "Imagine". In addition to recording a song that will end in the album, also recorded during the session is an unreleased song "San Francisco Bay Blues", a demo for a song that will later appear in full form on the album Lennon Mind Games , such as "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)", and the demo "I'm the Greatest".
Lennon and Ono flew to New York on July 3, 1971, to continue the session for the album the next day, at the Record Plant. Although the basic track for Imagine was initially recorded in his home studio, Ascot Sound Studios in Tittenhurst Park, many instruments were re-recorded at the Record Plant in New York City, where string and saxophone by King Curtis were also added. The tracks completed in the Record Plant are: "It's Very Difficult", "I Do not Want To Be Soldiers" and "How Do You Sleep?". As in his last album, Phil Spector joins Lennon and Yoko Ono as co-producers at Imagine. Extensive recording of sessions, showing the evolution of several songs, was originally filmed and titled Working Class Hero before being shelved. The recording of "Gimme Some Truth" was aired as part of the BBC TV show The Old Gray Whistle Test on December 12, 1972. Later, little footage was released as part of a documentary, Imagine: John Lennon .
Music and lyrics
Imagine was written and recorded during a period of very bad feelings between Lennon and former team mate Paul McCartney, after the Beatles split the previous year and McCartney won his case in the High Court to get their legality. partnership dissolved. Harrison became a guest star in half of the Imagine 's ten songs, including "How Do You Sleep?" - a song written in retaliation against McCartney's alleged personal attack on Lennon and Ono, on a recent album Ram . Lennon said in 1980: "I use my hatred of Paul... to create a song... not a horrible horrible grudge... I use my hatred and withdraw from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write 'How Do You Sleep?' I do not really go with those thoughts in my head all the time... "
The song "Imagine" became a typical song of Lennon and was written as a plea for world peace. Years later he recognized the role of Ono in the making of the song and expressed his regret that he did not credit him as a writer. "Jealous Guy" also has an enduring popularity; originally composed as "Child of Nature" during a songwriting session in India in 1968 leading to the Beatles' double album The Beatles. "Oh My Love" and the song "How?" influenced by his experience with primal therapy.
Lennon also indulged his love of rock and roll with "Crippled Inside" and "It's So Hard". "Gimme Some Truth", originally heard during the Let i Be session in early 1969, appeared in an album with a new bridge. The political theme "I Do not Want To Be A Warrior" closes the first half of Imagine in a cacophonous way. The last song on the album is "Oh Yoko!"; EMI encouraged the song to become a single, but Lennon thought it was too "pop".
Release
Apple Records issued Imagine on September 9, 1971 in the United States and a month later, on October 8, in the UK. The initial edition of LP includes a postcard featuring a picture of Lennon holding a pig, with a McCartney-like taunt with a sheep on the cover of Ram . It was also originally released in quadrophonic. "Imagine", powered by "It's So Hard", was released as a single, in the US on October 11, 1971. The album went to number 1 worldwide and became a perennial seller, with the title track reaching number 3 in the United States.. "Imagine" will not be released as one in the UK until four years later, to coincide with the release of Lennon Shaved Fish's single collection.
The front cover is Polaroid taken by Andy Warhol. The back cover photo is taken by Yoko Ono. A quote from Ono Grapefruit book (which Lennons is in the process of promoting a re-release in the UK) is also included on the back cover: "Imagine a drip cloud. Dig a hole in your garden to place them."
Reception
After the release of the album, Rolling Stone reported that "it contains mostly good music" but, regarding its predecessor as a superior album, warns of the possibility that "its posture will soon seem not only boring but irrelevant." In 2012, Imagine 80th selected on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
Movies promotions
In 1972, Lennon and Ono released an 81-minute film to accompany the Imagine album featuring footage on their Berkshire properties at Tittenhurst Park and in New York City. This includes many songs from the album and some additional material from the 1971 Ono album Fly . Some celebrities appear in the film, including Andy Warhol, Fred Astaire, Jack Palance, Dick Cavett and George Harrison. Ridiculed by critics as "the most expensive house movie of all time", the film aired for American audiences, on TV on December 23, 1972.
Legacy
Lennon would then express his displeasure with the more commercial sound of the album, even saying that the title track was "anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it's sugar -coated, it's acceptable". In a November 1971 interview for Melody Maker, McCartney spoke positively of Imagine, thinking it was less political than Lennon's previous solo album. In the next issue of the same publication, Lennon admonished his former bandmates, saying, "So you think 'Imagine' not politically? This 'Hero Workers Class' with sugar for conservatives like yourself !!" and likens McCartney's politics to those of the very traditional Mary Whitehouse. Imagine was selected as "Radio of the Year" Radio Luxembourg on December 24, 1971.
After Lennon's death, Imagine , along with seven other Lennon albums, was reissued by EMI as part of a box set, which was released in England on June 15, 1981. As the title suggests, Lennon Imagine became a posthumous hit worldwide after his death in December 1980. The album re-entered the charts during 1981, peaking at number 3 in Norway, 5 in the UK, 34 in Sweden and 63 in the UK. Union. In 2000, Yoko Ono watched remixing Imagine for re-publishing his remaster. In February 2000, remastered and remixed editions reached number 11 on the Japanese chart. It was reissued in 2003 by the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab on a gold CD and at 180 grams half the vinyl velocity was mastered. Lennon's record label Piano Record Plant was sold at auction in 2007. In October 2010, another remastered version of the album was released, and the album re-entered Billboard Top 200 at number 88. On November 23, 2010, > Imagine becomes available in Rock Band 3 video game, exploiting the use of keyboard by music game. On Day of Record Store 2011, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the album, it was re-released on 180 grams of vinyl with an additional 12 "vinyl white dish titled Imagine Session , featuring songs taken from John Lennon Anthology In January 2014, the album was released by Universal Music in High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format, featuring PCM audio tracks, DTS HD and Dolby Tru HD, based on remastered 2010.
Track list
All the songs written by John Lennon; "Oh My Love" written by Yoko Ono.
- Side one
- "Imagine" - 3:01
- "Crippled Inside" - 3:47
- "Jealous Guy" - 4:14
- "It's Highly Difficult" - 2:25
- "I Do not Want to Be a Soldier" - 6:05
- Two sides
- "Gimme Some Truth" - 3:16
- "Oh My Love" - ​​â € <2:50
- "How Do You Sleep?" - 5:36
- "How?" - 3:43
- "Oh Yoko!" - 4:20
Personnel
Personnel as per John Blaney.
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Certification
References
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