Have you ever heard Chris Cornell sing this? I know you reacted to him sing Led Zeppelins song "Thank You" on the Howard Stern show, but he does this song on there as well
Such a beautiful song. Many times so-called Christian groups have tried to ban it. The show WKRP in Cincinnati did an episode about it. Please watch that if you can.
When he said no immigration I believe he was referring to the dept of immigration since they were trying to kick John out of the country for a long time.
Think he said before that something like imagine if there are no countries. That would mean that there is no immigration since countries wouldnt exist but rather just our earth.
@sliceofheaven3026 You beat me to it lol. The immigration line was improvised; the original line was "and no religion too." John was expressing his frustration with the US government's attempts to kick him and Yoko out of the country.
@@timpwhityou are correct about that immigration line. It was a tongue in cheek slap at his immigration problems at the time. Lennon sometimes could not resist tweaking someone’s nose.
He sang Imagine there's no country, not no people. He also changed the original lyric. Instead of no immigration, it was "and no religion, too" And instead of "sisterhood and man" it was just "a brotherhood of man".
And then four years later in December 1980 the Cia assassinated him after he won his green card in 1976,they were scared of his political views 😮RIP truth speaker and fellow scouser John Lennon. @StanSwan
That's why first reactions should be on the original album version because of the originality of composure, lyrics, ideas,sound,instruments and the vocalist probably best performance. After move on to the live versions. A lot of lives have problems with amplifiers, sound, lack of some musicians required and vocalist might not be at his best. Some are great but I would listen to the original first.
The immigration line was thrown in because he was in the middle of a battle with US immigration, who, under the Nixon administration, was trying to deport him, an English man living in NYC.
He sang all three of the original verses, he just changed ' no religion ' to ' no immigration '. He also changed ' imagine no possessions, I wonder if YOU can ' to ' imagine no possessions, I wonder if WE can ', in response to the people who accused him of being a hypocrite.
This is such an amazing song. The lyrics are so so good. You should watch the Pentatonix version. I know you love them as much as I do. John would be proud.
Every government agency wanted to deport John Lennon and he had to fight to stay here ironically if he was deported he may still be alive!!!There were several reasons they wanted him out but ultimately there is no money in peace
What a great reaction. I love ❤❤ this song. It is inspirational, has beautiful Message & we all should try a little harder. I remember where I was the exact minute he departed this earth. I swear the earth stood still for a minute, just like when elvis departed this earth. It's a shame to lose such beautiful souls so young. Peace & Love to all. ✌️✌️✌️
Its a very simple message , get rid of all the causes of conflict and war, no religion, no borders, no things to own, everything that people fight and die for. Just live for each other and today.
It's one of his lesser songs actually. None of the attitudes in the song are in any way related to the way rank and file humans live their lives. It's an anthem for those who preen and posture in public, but don't walk the walk. One of the positive developments in Lennon's attitudes, at the end of his life, was his complete disgust with the way President Jimmy Carter was driving the country into the ground. He expressed to several people that if he had the vote in the US he'd vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980. That is one thing about Lennon that I very much "imagine" with satisfaction.
This song is John Lennon in a nutshell -- he's preaching peace and love, but doing it in a really challenging and thought-provoking way. He's basically questioning the very foundations of civilization that we all take for granted: Countries. Religions. Possessions. What would society look like if we could rebuild from the ground up, with 20-20 hindsight, and leave out all the things that separate us from each other?
Thank you for this, Britt. This song has resonated with so many all of these years. John is my favorite Beatle since the 60s when I was a kid. I recently heard Chris Cornell sing this on a video during a Howard Stern show. Just stunning RIP John and Chris ❤❤❤
John was a great artist, and had some amazing songs, but he wasn't really a good person. When he left his first wife, Cynthia, he basically ignored his first son Julian, and never really gave him any help. Didn't even leave him in his will. He was basically a Marxist, and an Atheist. And so, just thought his actions had no meaning of anything except living for yourself, in the moment.
after John Lennon's murder this song was played around the world at a prearranged time. It was the first time over a billion people listened to the same song at the same time.
You should have seen John in the early 1960's leather jackets, ray bans, and generally a pretty cool dude. You could never tell the master genius that was lying underneath.
He is saying if the things people war over were removed (religion, nations, wealth and resources), the people of the world could live together in peace. Its a wonderful impossible dream .
John wrote this in 1971. All these years later, and nothing has changed really. Actually, society has gotten worse and the world is falling apart. Especially the USA. This song always makes me cry. 😢 Great reaction, Britt! ✌🏼❣️
Hey Britt! This is by far my favorite John Lennon tune, as a peace and love for all type of guy myself. I would love to see you react to "Here to Love" by my man, Lenny Kravitz! He was awarded his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, which is great, and he is nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. I love him so much, can you tell? I love you too, girlfriend.
Lennon had always had a critical perception of what he symbolized and how he felt he appeared to the general public. You might want to check out his song, "Working Class Hero". (FYI: In the original Phil Specter version, the words "...and no religion too" was changed in this version to "...and no immigration too", interesting choice and very topical to the current politics of our era.)
"A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying". You should probably not react to this one. It is a Bloodhound Gang track. Thank you for your work!
The 60's was one of the most socially progressive times ever, in a good way. Everybody wanted to love everyone, no matter religion, politics, race, or country your from. The 60's was about love. It's like everyone forgets we did better 60 years ago than what the media thinks we are doing today. YES I know this is a 70's song, but JOHN told me himself he wrote this five years ealier. He wrote it with Yoko, and she isn't the devil you think she is.... she was right. John by himself with one album was better than the beatles with a decade (I AM JOKING, but I would like to hear rebuttles anyways).
one of the best songs ever written......unfortunately people who dare to preach peace , love and harmony between all ......get murdered . says a lot about humans!
Hey Brit. Let say sometimes those live videos do not give justice to the songs. And this is one of them. The recorded studio song is slower and just plain clearer. Way better !!! Please listen to it
It's always nice to see him live, but the performance is not that good here. If you haven't heard the studio version then you really haven't heard the song. The studio version is sooooooooo much better than the live version. If only for yourself, you need to hear it.
Britt, I am making a career out of watching and enjoying you music reactors on YT, and I cannot think of any reactor I have seen who "gets" John Lennon as well as you do!! I can't remember if you have reacted to "Working Class Hero" yet, but if you haven't you should definitely put it on your list!! Peace and Love!!
If you read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, it is pretty much the same stuff. No private property, no personal possessions, no religion or belief in heaven or hell. A disaster everywhere it’s been tried. Only in heaven will there be true peace and equality, but without belief that there is a heaven, you have failure.
He's not suggesting that we give up all possessions leaving everyone with nothing, Quite the opposite. He's saying that every one should have everything, and share everything. A beautiful vision, indeed.
John and Yoko spent a week in bed as a protest for peace. The Beatles did a song called, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" that tells about the couple and describes the bed protest and John says (in the song) "The newspaper says, say what are you doing in bed, I said, we're only trying to get us some peace".😂
There’s a story that while he was in grammar school. The students were assigned a task by the teacher to write down what they wanted to be when they grew up. The only thing he wrote on the paper was HAPPY. The teacher told him he didn’t understand the assignment and he told her that she didn’t understand life.
You are a very perceptive person, incredibly in ALL your reactions and/or appreciations, you are in the correct "story-telling" of the artist... As said, other better performances are in the web so you can understand that this song is an anthem for the world.
John Lennon never performed on stage again for pay after he and the Beatles went through separate ways. If you saw him perform on stage live. He was doing it for a cause or to bring attention to an injustice.
look at the version of him and Yoko playing in a big white room and he is playing the piano and you can understand the lyrics. He was shot and killed outside hs apartment in NYC
We listened to this song back in the early 70s. We felt it was part of the peace and love vibe, coming just two years after Woodstock which was all about peace and love and drugs and vomiting and rain and mud and overflowing porta-potties and food helicoptered in. Imagine was very much a statement. I have never seen a video of it being performed. This is the first time I've seen that. Way back then we listened to Imagine on records- black vinyl platters played with a needle creating sound when the platter spun. The olden days. 🙂
If you want to hear an incredible voice you have never heard of check out ALMETA SPEAKS....go to 37.00 on the album..the last song...MY ROMANCE....for a dual song that will blow you away.....I met her in Paris . she was singing and plays the piano at the bar at the Ritz Hotel in Paris.....she plays a beautiful piano. She is from Detroit and played in her father's baptist church so you can hear a lot of hymn and anthem in her piano....
Like a poetry reading and the author does a couple/three adlibs beyond the original text like adding "sisterhood" (likely Yoko's influence). Julian is his oldest son is now in his 60's and sounds much like his father. He recently did 'Imagine" because he could emotionally finally actually record it.
Have you seen the video of his song, #9 Dream (Ultimate Mix 2020) with the Plastic Ono Nuclear Band? The opening guitar solo was played by Native American Indian Jesse Ed Davis.
Brit, this video is probably the most iconic and beautiful version of Imagine th-cam.com/video/ugrAo8wEPiI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yctCR3z-_rbzjc23 At the end of the song, the look between Yoko and John is jjust... wow.
"When are you going to tell me you realise I'm a psychic?", "When are we going to have that conversation?". If you are a psychic you won't need to ask.
Good song.✔️out Everything is Beautiful "Ray Stevens" Best line There are none so blind,as He who will not see" .I jus pay The fees to aid my rumble,truth clients
Wasn't just Lennon who thought music should be about life and not fame ~ the ENTIRE hippie movement was about nothing else, than just being a human, being honest about who you are and letting others be honest about who they are (as long as you weren't an axe-murderer). That's precisely why they did no make-up, ugly clothes and letting your hair grow long. I think especially Millennials have a tendency to see hippies as the original "influencers" in modern mass-culture, because the hippies were such epic self-promoters and event-makers ~ but that is actually to completely miss the point about hippies: they considered conservatism (incl. religion, nationalism, militarism, patriarchy) entirely about hiding behind a pretty facade until all that pent-up emotion led to abusiveness (especially the atrocities of WW1 and WW2) and were ardently against materialism because they considered it conformist (buy-buy-buy, same as everyone else), anti-humanistic (reduced to mere consumers) and mind-numbing (reduced to impulse reactions, not thought and empathy)... hence, they were FIRST about uncompromisingly being yourself, but only SECOND about self-promotion and event-making ~ and ONLY to promote that message of "be yourself" to the rest of the world... they were all about thinking about and solving the BIG issues. ... it wasn't until the 90s that many of those hippie age bands were turned into "brands" that could sell merchandise ~ by the business school executives in the boardrooms of the music industry. But that "brandification" was a total anathema to everything those bands stood for in the 70s. So, Lennon is not just rocking a cool look or singing hit song ~ he is genuinely just trying to be himself and trying to promote his message of "peace, love and understanding". And remember, when we watch that song today, it is after 35 years of peace, internet and globalism, just comes across as a nice song ~ when he wrote it, he was singing during the height of the Cold War, to a public full of WW1, WW2 and Vietnam veterans, and millions who had been victims of the worst of Fascism and Stalinism. Seemed horrendously naive at the time to the older generations ~ yet it has proven itself true over time and has laid the foundations for the global mindset today. Hippies believed very much in having goals greater than yourself. ✌🙂
Love John Lennon! But you haven’t heard Imagine until you’ve heard the original studio, or official video❤️🔥
I agree. However , I really enjoyed hearing the twist on his different lyrics in this version as well.
I totally agree!
Have you ever heard Chris Cornell sing this? I know you reacted to him sing Led Zeppelins song "Thank You" on the Howard Stern show, but he does this song on there as well
Such a beautiful song. Many times so-called Christian groups have tried to ban it. The show WKRP in Cincinnati did an episode about it. Please watch that if you can.
If you can, you should really watch the original video. Even if you only take the time to do it for yourself rather than for a reaction. :)
When he said no immigration I believe he was referring to the dept of immigration since they were trying to kick John out of the country for a long time.
Think he said before that something like imagine if there are no countries. That would mean that there is no immigration since countries wouldnt exist but rather just our earth.
@sliceofheaven3026 You beat me to it lol. The immigration line was improvised; the original line was "and no religion too." John was expressing his frustration with the US government's attempts to kick him and Yoko out of the country.
@@timpwhityou are correct about that immigration line. It was a tongue in cheek slap at his immigration problems at the time. Lennon sometimes could not resist tweaking someone’s nose.
In the original, he says... and no religion, too.
And I'm giving Britt some context of the man and the times. John Lennon also wrote Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Yes
Jesus Christ 🙏🏻☦️
Not just a song but a way of life. Lost my wife 3 yrs ago .... The inscription on the headstone..... IMAGINE .....peace and love
Soo Sorry for your loss!! I Lost my identical twin brother in November and We Always Loved John Lennon / The Beatles❤
Sorry for your loss. The inscription on her headstone shows she was an amazing person. It seems you and her had it all figured out. ❤
I'm so sorry for your loss ❣️
I'm so sorry for your loss and it's so cool that that is what is on the headstone.
My condolences.
Dreadful version (or audio)
He sang Imagine there's no country, not no people. He also changed the original lyric. Instead of no immigration, it was "and no religion, too" And instead of "sisterhood and man" it was just "a brotherhood of man".
He was referring to US immigration laws when he wanted to move to NYC. He had a drug bust on his record so they kept him out for many years.
John lennon was a socialist if you didn't know. Praise all socialism.
And then four years later in December 1980 the Cia assassinated him after he won his green card in 1976,they were scared of his political views 😮RIP truth speaker and fellow scouser John Lennon. @StanSwan
That's why first reactions should be on the original album version because of the originality of composure, lyrics, ideas,sound,instruments and the vocalist probably best performance. After move on to the live versions. A lot of lives have problems with amplifiers, sound, lack of some musicians required and vocalist might not be at his best. Some are great but I would listen to the original first.
Audio wasn’t that great on this clip. There are better versions out there…
I’m stunned that there’s people in this world still that never heard this song.
Or Rapper's Delight!
This is written while the Vietnam war was still going. Just peace.
The immigration line was thrown in because he was in the middle of a battle with US immigration, who, under the Nixon administration, was trying to deport him, an English man living in NYC.
There’s another verse in the original recording. Check out the official video of the tune. It’s great.
He sang all three of the original verses, he just changed ' no religion ' to ' no immigration '. He also changed ' imagine no possessions, I wonder if YOU can ' to ' imagine no possessions, I wonder if WE can ', in response to the people who accused him of being a hypocrite.
This is such an amazing song. The lyrics are so so good. You should watch the Pentatonix version. I know you love them as much as I do. John would be proud.
Oh, please. Pentatonix' version is mediocre & John would be indifferent to it. GREAT REACTION Britt
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@@oscarwilde6649But the Official video to get the visual references.
the real lyrics are....
...Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too........... not imagration
I think he used the word "immigration" in this live version because he was in the middle of a 10 year fight for the right to live in the USA.
Every government agency wanted to deport John Lennon and he had to fight to stay here ironically if he was deported he may still be alive!!!There were several reasons they wanted him out but ultimately there is no money in peace
Should have listened to the studio version
You've never heard "Imagine" ??? Not possible. One of the most famous songs in the history of music.
What a great reaction. I love ❤❤ this song. It is inspirational, has beautiful Message & we all should try a little harder. I remember where I was the exact minute he departed this earth. I swear the earth stood still for a minute, just like when elvis departed this earth. It's a shame to lose such beautiful souls so young. Peace & Love to all. ✌️✌️✌️
Its like we’ve lost being deep and thoughtfull in present time compared to old times🙏😘
Its a very simple message , get rid of all the causes of conflict and war, no religion, no borders, no things to own, everything that people fight and die for. Just live for each other and today.
Others have reacted to studio version...you should too...for other songs as well...
Listent to the version of IMAGINE when he walks in the dark with YOKO and then into a white room playing the piano
Britt- "I'm a Christian."
John Lennon- "Imagine there no heaven."
Britt- "This song is so beautiful."
Yeah, ok...
Gotta hear the official video this live doesn’t do it as much justice lol
It's one of his lesser songs actually. None of the attitudes in the song are in any way related to the way rank and file humans live their lives. It's an anthem for those who preen and posture in public, but don't walk the walk.
One of the positive developments in Lennon's attitudes, at the end of his life, was his complete disgust with the way President Jimmy Carter was driving the country into the ground. He expressed to several people that if he had the vote in the US he'd vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980. That is one thing about Lennon that I very much "imagine" with satisfaction.
Watching the Wheels is another great Lennon song.
This is one of my two favorite Lennon songs. The other is Working Class Hero. Check it out.
This song is John Lennon in a nutshell -- he's preaching peace and love, but doing it in a really challenging and thought-provoking way. He's basically questioning the very foundations of civilization that we all take for granted: Countries. Religions. Possessions. What would society look like if we could rebuild from the ground up, with 20-20 hindsight, and leave out all the things that separate us from each other?
Thank you for this, Britt. This song has resonated with so many all of these years. John is my favorite Beatle since the 60s when I was a kid.
I recently heard Chris Cornell sing this on a video during a Howard Stern show. Just stunning
RIP John and Chris ❤❤❤
You should listen to the recorded version. In this one, he changed some of the lyrics, and I think it diminishes the song from the original.
John was a great artist, and had some amazing songs, but he wasn't really a good person. When he left his first wife, Cynthia, he basically ignored his first son Julian, and never really gave him any help. Didn't even leave him in his will. He was basically a Marxist, and an Atheist. And so, just thought his actions had no meaning of anything except living for yourself, in the moment.
Studio version is better
after John Lennon's murder this song was played around the world at a prearranged time. It was the first time over a billion people listened to the same song at the same time.
You should have seen John in the early 1960's leather jackets, ray bans, and generally a pretty cool dude. You could never tell the master genius that was lying underneath.
He is saying if the things people war over were removed (religion, nations, wealth and resources), the people of the world could live together in peace. Its a wonderful impossible dream .
John wrote this in 1971. All these years later, and nothing has changed really. Actually, society has gotten worse and the world is falling apart. Especially the USA. This song always makes me cry. 😢
Great reaction, Britt! ✌🏼❣️
Agreed 💯
You start to understand what we all lost when he was killed
I prefer the original music video th-cam.com/video/ugrAo8wEPiI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=H_YmQeWLMYFtwuXM Also check out Working Class Hero.
Hey Britt! This is by far my favorite John Lennon tune, as a peace and love for all type of guy myself. I would love to see you react to "Here to Love" by my man, Lenny Kravitz! He was awarded his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, which is great, and he is nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. I love him so much, can you tell? I love you too, girlfriend.
Lennon had always had a critical perception of what he symbolized and how he felt he appeared to the general public. You might want to check out his song, "Working Class Hero". (FYI: In the original Phil Specter version, the words "...and no religion too" was changed in this version to "...and no immigration too", interesting choice and very topical to the current politics of our era.)
This song always makes me cry.
I'm not sure you've gone down the greatest music rabbit hole called the Beatles. Start with Hard Days Night.
You should listen to the other one ,when he’s playing the piano. Both are great 😊
"A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying".
You should probably not react to this one.
It is a Bloodhound Gang track.
Thank you for your work!
Liverpool airport is John Lennon airport, Above us only Sky!
Great song. This isn't the best version. John was VERY leather when he started google early pics.
The 60's was one of the most socially progressive times ever, in a good way. Everybody wanted to love everyone, no matter religion, politics, race, or country your from. The 60's was about love. It's like everyone forgets we did better 60 years ago than what the media thinks we are doing today. YES I know this is a 70's song, but JOHN told me himself he wrote this five years ealier. He wrote it with Yoko, and she isn't the devil you think she is.... she was right. John by himself with one album was better than the beatles with a decade (I AM JOKING, but I would like to hear rebuttles anyways).
The Immigration line isn't the original. It was "No Religion Too" He said Immigration because the US was trying to kick him out at the time.
one of the best songs ever written......unfortunately people who dare to preach peace , love and harmony between all ......get murdered . says a lot about humans!
For a story song out of the 70s, you should try Harry Chapin's "Odd Job Man", "The Mayor of Candor", "Sniper" or "Bummer".
Listen to the original recording!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Great song! Poor theology and philosophy. 😊
If you've seen Forrest Gump, you'll recognize these words when he was on the talk show. ❤😊
Hey Brit. Let say sometimes those live videos do not give justice to the songs. And this is one of them. The recorded studio song is slower and just plain clearer. Way better !!! Please listen to it
Another John Lennon classic. "Give Peace A Chance" You have to check it out. Hope you see this or others let you know.
You should do the video where Lennon goes on stage at Madison square garden with Elton John
It's always nice to see him live, but the performance is not that good here. If you haven't heard the studio version then you really haven't heard the song. The studio version is sooooooooo much better than the live version. If only for yourself, you need to hear it.
john lennon was the greatest spiritualist in rock history...!!!!
The man was Fifty years ahead of his time.
talented man, love your reactions.
Britt, I am making a career out of watching and enjoying you music reactors on YT, and I cannot think of any reactor I have seen who "gets" John Lennon as well as you do!! I can't remember if you have reacted to "Working Class Hero" yet, but if you haven't you should definitely put it on your list!! Peace and Love!!
Now you need to react to ptx cover of this song
The day after he was killed, I happened to be in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, where a large crowd of us sang this song.
Rest in peace, John
Before it can be done it has to be imagined. He questions if its possible
If you read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, it is pretty much the same stuff. No private property, no personal possessions, no religion or belief in heaven or hell. A disaster everywhere it’s been tried. Only in heaven will there be true peace and equality, but without belief that there is a heaven, you have failure.
Imagine reality. Because there is no heaven or hell.
This song is hell on earth
The commie anthom lol
He's not suggesting that we give up all possessions leaving everyone with nothing, Quite the opposite. He's saying that every one should have everything, and share everything. A beautiful vision, indeed.
John and Yoko spent a week in bed as a protest for peace. The Beatles did a song called, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" that tells about the couple and describes the bed protest and John says (in the song) "The newspaper says, say what are you doing in bed, I said, we're only trying to get us some peace".😂
Christ, you know it ain’t easy…
You look like two guru's in drag.@@GunsmithSid
This is one of the most beautiful and lyrically perfect songs ever! John was a true genius.
Impossible no, possessions !💔
Yeah - he just showed up as is - take it or leave it. WOW. Frigging GREAT song.
There’s a story that while he was in grammar school. The students were assigned a task by the teacher to write down what they wanted to be when they grew up. The only thing he wrote on the paper was HAPPY. The teacher told him he didn’t understand the assignment and he told her that she didn’t understand life.
And that’s exactly what it is… just a story.
One of the best songs ever and everytime when it comes on the radio, it still make you pause and listen❤
You are a very perceptive person, incredibly in ALL your reactions and/or appreciations, you are in the correct "story-telling" of the artist... As said, other better performances are in the web so you can understand that this song is an anthem for the world.
Imagine, we thought this was going to change the world. Great job Britt.
John Lennon never performed on stage again for pay after he and the Beatles went through separate ways. If you saw him perform on stage live. He was doing it for a cause or to bring attention to an injustice.
look at the version of him and Yoko playing in a big white room and he is playing the piano and you can understand the lyrics. He was shot and killed outside hs apartment in NYC
You are absolutely psychic. Intuitive for sure.
I got a request for you..."Magic" by Allen Parson's Project and also..."Magic" by Olivia Newton-John...both are awesome songs!
We lost such a special man.
Good one, Britt )) Interesting perspective
Imagine there is no Yoko was the original lyric...🤪 Actually she wrote the lyrics. It's quite marxist, considering they derive from a Japanese woman.
Try 'Love' from the Plastic Ono Band album.
We listened to this song back in the early 70s. We felt it was part of the peace and love vibe, coming just two years after Woodstock which was all about peace and love and drugs and vomiting and rain and mud and overflowing porta-potties and food helicoptered in. Imagine was very much a statement. I have never seen a video of it being performed. This is the first time I've seen that. Way back then we listened to Imagine on records- black vinyl platters played with a needle creating sound when the platter spun. The olden days. 🙂
You understand him, because he's a Libra like you. ( 10/9/40)
Imagine no countries
If you want to hear an incredible voice you have never heard of check out ALMETA SPEAKS....go to 37.00 on the album..the last song...MY ROMANCE....for a dual song that will blow you away.....I met her in Paris . she was singing and plays the piano at the bar at the Ritz Hotel in Paris.....she plays a beautiful piano. She is from Detroit and played in her father's baptist church so you can hear a lot of hymn and anthem in her piano....
Like a poetry reading and the author does a couple/three adlibs beyond the original text like adding "sisterhood" (likely Yoko's influence). Julian is his oldest son is now in his 60's and sounds much like his father. He recently did 'Imagine" because he could emotionally finally actually record it.
Have you seen the video of his song, #9 Dream (Ultimate Mix 2020) with the Plastic Ono Nuclear Band? The opening guitar solo was played by Native American Indian Jesse Ed Davis.
Brit, this video is probably the most iconic and beautiful version of Imagine
th-cam.com/video/ugrAo8wEPiI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yctCR3z-_rbzjc23
At the end of the song, the look between Yoko and John is jjust... wow.
Love the Beatles. Love Lennon. Hate this song. Stupid lyrics. As Steely Dan opined on this song, 'Only a Fool Would Say That."
"When are you people going to realize I am a psychic?..." Well... you should already know the answer.
Obviously, he was killed for this message 😢
"When are you going to tell me you realise I'm a psychic?", "When are we going to have that conversation?". If you are a psychic you won't need to ask.
Good song.✔️out Everything is Beautiful "Ray Stevens" Best line There are none so blind,as
He who will not see" .I jus pay
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Wasn't just Lennon who thought music should be about life and not fame ~ the ENTIRE hippie movement was about nothing else, than just being a human, being honest about who you are and letting others be honest about who they are (as long as you weren't an axe-murderer). That's precisely why they did no make-up, ugly clothes and letting your hair grow long.
I think especially Millennials have a tendency to see hippies as the original "influencers" in modern mass-culture, because the hippies were such epic self-promoters and event-makers ~ but that is actually to completely miss the point about hippies: they considered conservatism (incl. religion, nationalism, militarism, patriarchy) entirely about hiding behind a pretty facade until all that pent-up emotion led to abusiveness (especially the atrocities of WW1 and WW2) and were ardently against materialism because they considered it conformist (buy-buy-buy, same as everyone else), anti-humanistic (reduced to mere consumers) and mind-numbing (reduced to impulse reactions, not thought and empathy)... hence, they were FIRST about uncompromisingly being yourself, but only SECOND about self-promotion and event-making ~ and ONLY to promote that message of "be yourself" to the rest of the world... they were all about thinking about and solving the BIG issues.
... it wasn't until the 90s that many of those hippie age bands were turned into "brands" that could sell merchandise ~ by the business school executives in the boardrooms of the music industry. But that "brandification" was a total anathema to everything those bands stood for in the 70s.
So, Lennon is not just rocking a cool look or singing hit song ~ he is genuinely just trying to be himself and trying to promote his message of "peace, love and understanding".
And remember, when we watch that song today, it is after 35 years of peace, internet and globalism, just comes across as a nice song ~ when he wrote it, he was singing during the height of the Cold War, to a public full of WW1, WW2 and Vietnam veterans, and millions who had been victims of the worst of Fascism and Stalinism. Seemed horrendously naive at the time to the older generations ~ yet it has proven itself true over time and has laid the foundations for the global mindset today.
Hippies believed very much in having goals greater than yourself. ✌🙂
Boy, the world could sure use a few John Lennons right now. C'mon, Gen Z, get to work, pull your weight. It's gonna be your world...
Instead of, no migration, the original was, no religion 2, i think he was 'forced' 2 change the lyrics in this version...