Imagine (John Lennon song)
Lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song’s lyrics and content came from his wife, Yoko Ono, and in 2017 she received co-writing credit. Recording began at Lennon’s home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England, in May 1971, with final overdubs taking place at the Record Plant, in New York City, during July. By 2013,\’Imagine’ had sold over 1. 6 million copies in the UK.
About Imagine (John Lennon song) in brief
Lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song’s lyrics and content came from his wife, Yoko Ono, and in 2017 she received co-writing credit. Recording began at Lennon’s home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England, in May 1971, with final overdubs taking place at the Record Plant, in New York City, during July. The song was first issued as a single in Britain in 1975, to promote the compilation Shaved Fish, and reached number six on the UK Singles Chart that year. It later topped the chart following Lennon’s murder in 1980. More than 200 artists have performed or covered the song, including Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Joan Baez, Lady Gaga, Elton John and Diana Ross. In March 2020, in response to the unfolding coronavirus pandemic, the actress Gal Gadot posted an informal but star-studded cover version of \”Imagine\” on Instagram. It remains controversial, as it has been since its release, over its request to imagine \”no religion too\”. Several poems from Ono’s 1964 book Grapefruit inspired Lennon to write the lyrics for ‘Imagine’ In 1999, it was ranked number 30 on the RIAA’s list of the 365 \”Songs of the Century\”, earning a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. Rolling Stone ranked it number three in the 2004 list of \”The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\”.
Since 2005, event organisers have played the song just before the New Year’s Times Square Ball drops in NYC. After the 2012 Summer Olympics, the song re-entered the UK Top 40, reaching number 18. By 2013,\’Imagine’ had sold over 1. 6 million copies in the UK. It was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame’s \”500 Songs that Shaped Rock and roll\”. A 2002 UK survey conducted by the Guinness World Records British Hit Singles Book named it the second best single of all time. The World Church called me once and asked, ‘Can we use the lyrics to ‘Imagine’ and just change it to ‘Imagine one religion?’ That showed they didn’t understand it at all.’’ Lennon later said the composition ‘should be credited as a LennonOno song’. He told NME: ‘There is no real Communist state in the world; you must realize that I speak about that I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement’, even though I’m not a Communist Manifesto.‘‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more politics,’ is virtually the only thing that makes me happy,’ he said in an interview with NME. ‘I’ve never been happier than when I was in the middle of a party, and when I got out of the party, I was like, “Oh my God, what a relief!”’
You want to know more about Imagine (John Lennon song)?
This page is based on the article Imagine (John Lennon song) published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 05, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
