IMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HD
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Published 2016-12-18
36 tracks completely remixed from the original multitracks in Stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos.
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IMAGINE
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try
No hell below us, above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today...
Imagine there's 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...
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger - a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one
written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
ABOUT IMAGINE
John: ‘Imagine’ is a song conceived in my head without melody. The first verse came to me very quickly in the form of a childlike street chant ‘da da da da da dee dee da dee da ee a eeeh’. The piano intro I’ve had hanging around in my head for a few years – the chords and melody followed naturally from this.
The middle eight was ‘conceived’ to finish off the song. I think it works as a song. Of course, there is always room for improvement – otherwise I wouldn’t make any more. The third verse came to me in an eight-seater plane. It’s a song for children.
Yoko: ‘Cloud Piece’: ‘Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in.’ This is not a piece of poetry. Poetry to me is nouns or adjectives. This is verbs. And you have to do them. These are all instructions and when you just do it, then you start to understand it.
John: ‘Imagine’ was inspired by Yoko’s Grapefruit. There’s a lot of pieces in it saying like ‘Imagine this’ or ‘Imagine that’. If you get a copy of Grapefruit and look through, you’ll see where I was influenced by her. ‘Imagine’ could never have been written without her. And I know she helped on a lot of the lyrics but I wasn’t man enough to let her have credit for it. So that song was actually written by John & Yoko, but I was still selfish enough and unaware enough to take her contribution without acknowledging it. The song itself expresses what I’d learned through being with Yoko and my own feelings on it. It should really have said ‘Lennon/Ono’ on that song, because she contributed a lot of that song.
Alan White (drummer): Every song we did on Imagine, John would make us read the lyrics and insist that we understood the meaning of the song before started playing it. That had quite an impact for me.
Klaus Voormann (bass): When we played ‘Imagine’ and heard the lyrics, the possibility that this was going to be such a big song was apparent. It definitely was. I even thought I didn’t want to play on it because it was so amazing with just John playing piano. It was so true and honest. That would have been enough. I hope you’ve got a version of just John playing it.
Phil McDonald (engineer): ‘Imagine’ was one of the easiest tracks to record, almost all live, in a few takes. We mixed the track at Tittenhurst and Phil Spector added strings on top of the stereo tape in the USA.
Yoko: John and I were both artists and we were living together, so we inspired each other. And the song ‘Imagine’ embodied what we believed together at the time. John and I met – he comes from the West and I come from the East – and still we are together. We have this oneness and ‘the whole world would eventually become one’ is the sense that we will all be café-au-lait colour and we will all be very happy together. All these instructions are for people for how to spend eternity, because we have lots of time.
John: If you can imagine a world of peace, if you can imagine a world with no denominations of religion – not without religion, whatever religion is – but without this divisive ‘My god is bigger than your god’ business.... Then, if you can imagine the possibility, then it can be true.
Yoko: ‘Imagine’ is a complete vision. A succinct bible of truth. It will start to unfold as you believe in it. The film? Well, it just happened naturally. I was well aware of the symbolism of everything – closing and then opening the shutters to let the light in. It’s rather personal, but I had a definite reason why I smiled at the end, in addition to loving being next to John.
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All Comments (21)
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"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" The way he sings this line always gets me.
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My dad passed last nite, he had pancreatic cancer. He left this earth peacefully. He loved The Beatles! When I was 9 or so, I scrounged up what money I could at the time and bought him their greatest hits CD. He loved it so much. He showed my sister and I (now 30 and 29 yrs old) what "real" music was. We played this song last night as he left us and it gave us peace. Love you Dad and thanks for everything. I know you're rocking and rolling all the way up there!
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I hope that day will come. No conflict, no war, just peace. We can make a better world.
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I'm South Korean and served in the military on the front line facing North Korea ten years ago. I listened to this song a lot back then. I hope no one sacrifices their lives for foolish things anymore...
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You’re not the only one listening to this forever, and a day.
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"Imagine all the people living life in peace" That part hit me hard..
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私は今42歳ですが20歳の頃にビートルズにハマって聴きまくりました。 いつの間にか自分がジョンがこの世を去った年齢を超えてしまったことがとても切ないです。 イマジンのメッセージはシンプルで力強いので何十年経っても心を揺さぶります。
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I believe that it's a most beautiful song of last century.
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"You may say I'm a dreamer .But I'm not the only one." Thank you for that.
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Imagine John still being alive and singing for this world today.
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Somebody still love John lennon in 2024?
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Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the people Livin' for today Ah Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace You You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
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38 years without lennon, rest in peace
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"He imagined a world without pain, and you can too."
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John Lennon has passed away, but this song will remain forever.
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53 years later, if you’re watching this, you’re a legend.
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i dedicate it to my friend who lost a battle to cancer ,may his soul rest in power
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It's his 79th birthday today so I thought I would pay this song a visit
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I'mlistening to amazing John. April q3, 2024. I wish people would have really listened more to this beautiful song. Thank you John.
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Everyone who reads this, we don't know each other and probably never will but I wish you all the best in life and all the luck in the world 💕🥰
