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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