Music legend John Lennon,  1940 – 1980

wrote/performed songs whose melodies and lyrics

were beautiful, emotive-

embodying socio-political messages

which called for positive global change.

 

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(image from the beatles.livejournal.com):

At the piano

John Lennon

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A member of the iconic ’60s Brit pop group, The Beatles,

John Lennon went on to have an incredible solo career.

Imagine was the best-selling single of his

post-Beatles musical life.

The lyrics are sentiment of a global community

at peace, in which differences are not divisive but accepted,

in which persons of varied backgrounds-

race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation (whatever)

can live in calm accord.  Just ‘imagine’!

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(image from marioverehrer-com):

Imagine

album cover

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John Lennon composed Imagine, “one morning in early 1971,

on a Steinway piano, in a bedroom

at his Tittenhurst Park estate in Ascot Berkshire, England.”

The lyrics are said to be based on poems written by his wife Yoko Ono,

from her 1964 anthology Grapefruit.

 

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(image from billboard.com):

Yoko Ono  and John Lennon

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Imagine:  an astonishingly expressive piano ballad

 

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