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Imagine (Album) by John Lennon

Artist Biography For John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon Born John Winston Lennon 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 Was An English Singer Songwriter And Musician Who Gained Worldwide Fame As The Founder Co-Songwriter Co-Lead Vocalist And Rhythm Guitarist Of The Beatles. His Work Included Music Writing Drawings And Film. His Songwriting Partnership With Paul McCartney Remains The Most Successful In History. Born In Liverpool Lennon Became Involved In The Skiffle Craze As A Teenager. In 1956 He Formed The Quarrymen Which Evolved Into The Beatles In 1960. Sometimes Called "the Smart Beatle" Lennon Initially Was The Group's De Facto Leader A Role He Gradually Ceded To McCartney. Through His Songwriting In The Beatles He Embraced Myriad Musical Influences Initially Writing And Co-Writing Rock And Pop-Oriented Hit Songs In The Band's Early Years Then Later Incorporating Experimental Elements Into His Compositions In The Latter Half Of The Beatles' Career As His Songs Became Known For Their Increasing Innovation. Lennon Soon Expanded His Work Into Other Media By Participating In Numerous Films Including How I Won The War And Authoring In His Own Write And A Spaniard In The Works Both Collections Of Nonsense Writings And Line Drawings. Starting With "All You Need Is Love" His Songs Were Adopted As Anthems By The Anti-War Movement And The Larger Counterculture Of The 1960s. In 1969 He Started The Plastic Ono Band With His Second Wife Multimedia Artist Yoko Ono Held The Two-Week-Long Anti-War Demonstration Bed-Ins For Peace And Left The Beatles To Embark On A Solo Career. Between 1968 And 1972 Lennon And Ono Collaborated On Many Works Including A Trilogy Of Avant-Garde Albums Several More Films His Solo Debut John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band And The International Top-10 Singles "Give Peace A Chance" "Instant Karma!" "Imagine" And "Happy Xmas War Is Over ". Moving To New York City In 1971 His Criticism Of The Vietnam War Resulted In A Three-Year Deportation Attempt By The Nixon Administration. Lennon And Ono Separated From 1973 To 1975 During Which Time He Produced Harry Nilsson's Album Pussy Cats. He Also Had Chart-Topping Collaborations With Elton John "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" And David Bowie "Fame" . Following A Five-Year Hiatus Lennon Returned To Music In 1980 With The Ono Collaboration Double Fantasy. He Was Murdered By A Beatles Fan Mark David Chapman Three Weeks After The Album's Release. As A Performer Writer Or Co-Writer Lennon Had 25 Number-One Singles In The Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Double Fantasy His Best-Selling Album Won The 1981 Grammy Award For Album Of The Year. That Year He Won The Brit Award For Outstanding Contribution To Music. In 2002 Lennon Was Voted Eighth In A BBC History Poll Of The 100 Greatest Britons. Rolling Stone Ranked Him The Fifth-Greatest Singer And 38th Greatest Artist Of All Time. He Was Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame In 1997 And The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Twice As A Member Of The Beatles In 1988 And As A Solo Artist In 1994 . Studio Albums
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 1970 Imagine 1971 Some Time In New York City With Yoko Ono 1972 Mind Games 1973 Walls And Bridges 1974 Rock 'n' Roll 1975 Double Fantasy With Yoko Ono 1980 Milk And Honey Posthumous With Yoko Ono 1984 Experimental Studio Albums With Yoko Ono
Unfinished Music No. 1 Two Virgins 1968 Unfinished Music No. 2 Life With The Lions 1969 Wedding Album 1969

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Imagine Is John Lennon's Second Solo Album And Is Considered The Most Popular Of His Solo Works. Recorded And Released In 1971 The Album Tended Toward Songs That Were Gentler More Commercial And Less Avant-Garde Than The Ones He Released On His More Critically Acclaimed Previous Album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The Difference He Said Was That Imagine Was "chocolate-Coated For Public Consumption" In Reference To The String Sections Prevalent Throughout The Album. Basic Tracks For The Album Were Recorded In His Home Studio Ascot Sound Studios In Tittenhurst Park With Strings Overdubs Added At The Record Plant In New York City. As On His Last Album Phil Spector Joined Lennon And Yoko Ono As Co-Producer On Imagine. Extensive Footage Of The Sessions Showing The Evolution Of Some Of The Songs Was Compiled On A Video Documentary Entitled Gimme Some Truth The Making Of John Lennon's Imagine. The Title Track "Imagine" Became Lennon's Signature Tune And Was Written As A Plea For World Peace. "Jealous Guy" Has Also Had Enduring Popularity And Was Originally Composed As "Child Of Nature" During The Songwriting Sessions In India In 1968 That Led To The Beatles' Double-Album The Beatles. "Oh My Love" And The Song "How?" Were Influenced By His Experience With Primal Therapy "How?" Contains The Questions He Was Facing While Going Through The Changes Produced In Him During The Ongoing Process Of Primal Therapy While "Oh My Love" Was Written To Communicate The Joy And Growth Lennon Was Experiencing As A Result Of The Therapy. Lennon Also Indulged His Love Of Rock And Roll With "Crippled Inside" And "It's So Hard." "Gimme Some Truth" Originally Heard In The Let It Be Sessions Appears On The Album With A New Bridge. The Politically-Themed "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier" Closes The First Half Of Imagine In A Cacophonous Manner. George Harrison Guested On A Few Of Imagine's Tracks Most Infamously "How Do You Sleep?" Lennon's Response To What He Considered Veiled Remarks About Him On Paul McCartney's Then-Current Album Ram. Although Lennon Softened His Stance In The Mid-70s And Claimed He Wrote The Song About Himself He Revealed In 1980 "I Used My Resentment Against Paul... To Create A Song... Not A Terrible Vicious Horrible Vendetta... I Used My Resentment And Withdrawing From Paul And The Beatles And The Relationship With Paul To Write 'How Do You Sleep'. I Don't Really Go 'round With Those Thoughts In My Head All The Time". Early Editions Of The Imagine LP Included A Postcard Featuring A Photo Of Lennon Holding A Pig In Mockery Of McCartney's Similar Pose With A Sheep Of The Cover Of Ram. At The End Of The Album Is "Oh Yoko!" A Ode To His Wife Complete With A Bob Dylan-Style Harmonica Solo. Upon Release In September And October 1971 Imagine Was Warmly Regarded By Critics And Promptly Went To #1 Worldwide And Became An Enduring Seller With The Title Track Reaching #3 In The U.S. And #1 In The UK Following Lennon's Death. In 2000 Yoko Ono Supervised The Remixing Of Imagine For Its Remastered Reissue. In 2003 Imagine Was Placed At #76 In Rolling Stone's List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time And Reissued By Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab On Gold CD And On 180 Gram Half-Speed Mastered Vinyl.