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Imagine (Music)
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Imagine is the fifth studio album by John Lennon, released in 1971 through Apple Records. It is best known for the iconic title track "Imagine," which has become Lennon's Signature Song. Other hits and fan favourites include "Jealous Guy," "Crippled Inside," and "Gimme Some Truth". | |
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Say My Name | |
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Say My Name: "Oh Yoko" about Yoko Ono. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: George Harrison plays guitar on some tracks on this album. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: "Jealous Guy", in which the protagonist apologizes for offending his partner because he was just jealous. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: John's face in close-up. | |
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Cult Soundtrack | |
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Cult Soundtrack: Not exactly, but a companion movie, "Imagine" was released by Lennon a year later. This film is more a sort of documentary, though, than an actual film. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: "Imagine." | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: George Harrison plays electric and slide guitar on "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier," "Gimme Some Truth," "Oh My Love," and "How Do You Sleep?". During "Crippled Inside" he plays dobro. Klaus Voormann, who designed the album cover of Revolver, plass bass and upright bass. Phil Spector provides backing vocals during "Oh Yoko!" | |
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Talking in Your Sleep | |
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Talking in Your Sleep: "Oh Yoko!" | |
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Enemy Within | |
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Enemy Within: "Crippled Inside." | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: "It's So Hard," where Lennon acknowledges both the good and difficult things about life. The album overall incorporates material at both ends, with "Imagine" being firmly at the idealistic end and other material ("How Do You Sleep?", "Crippled Inside") being very cynical. Most songs are somewhere in the middle, though. | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: "How Do You Sleep?", because it was a reflection of John's feelings against Paul at that particular moment in time. Later they became friends again. | |
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Draft Dodging | |
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Draft Dodging: "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier." | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner: "Jealous Guy," about a man who apologizes to his partner for being disrespectful to her, but acknowledges he is just a jealous guy. | |
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The Diss Track | |
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The Diss Track "How Do You Sleep?" is directed at Paul McCartney, evidently in response to some lines Lennon had read as being subtle digs at him in McCartney's Ram. McCartney later confirmed that "Too Many People" was indeed directed at Lennon, but they ultimately reconciled before Lennon's death. "How Do You Sleep?" reads as being absolutely scathing and incorporates several of McCartney's song titles ironically, but Lennon was already downplaying their differences shortly after the release of Imagine, saying, "There's really no feud between me and Paul. It's all good, clean fun." By the mid-seventies, he stated that the song was as much directed at himself as it was at Paul. Some people have also read "Crippled Inside" as containing a few subtle digs at McCartney (That Other Wiki lists "You can live a lie until you die" as one of the lines interpreted this way), but it's not clear if Lennon ever confirmed this. "Gimme Some Truth" expresses frustration about "short-haired yellow-bellied sons of Tricky Dicky," referencing Richard Nixon. A photo of John in the album's liner notes parodies the album cover of McCartney's RAM, replacing the ram with a pig. | |
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Triumphant Reprise | |
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Triumphant Reprise: "Oh Yoko!" to "My Mummy's Dead", in a way. They both incorporate elements of the children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice" into their melodies, but "My Mummy's Dead" is a Grief Song for Lennon's mother sung in a Creepy Monotone, while "Oh Yoko!" is, of course, a love song to his wife. | |
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Dream Sequence | |
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Dream Sequence: The utopian vision in "Imagine" is basically this. Could be Dreaming of Things to Come too, but that might be stretching it a bit. | |
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Apologises a Lot | |
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Apologises a Lot: "Jealous Guy." | |
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Meadow Run | |
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Meadow Run: At the end of the "Oh Yoko!" music video. Though, they did it on a shore of the beach and referencing the famous scene from Wuthering Heights for they shout each other's names in the same fashion as the film. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "How Do You Sleep?", directed toward Paul McCartney at the depth of their mutual hatred. A response to Paul's "Too Many People" from Ram, released earlier the same year. (The two buried the hatchet a few years later.) | |
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Pacifism | |
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Pacifism: "Imagine" and "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama." | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: "Gimme Some Truth," "Oh My Love," "How?" are all songs in which Lennon explores his self-identication and looks for some truth in his life. | |
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Questioning Title? | |
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Questioning Title?: "How Do You Sleep?" and "How?" | |
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Bowdlerization | |
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Bowdlerization: There are versions of "Imagine" that replace the line "and no religion too" with "and one religion too", to better appeal to Christian listeners. Which rather fails to address the fact the song implicitly asks the listener to consider the absence of both Heaven and Hell, and to view their absence in a positive light, but then, these versions are not very well known or liked outside of their target audience. | |
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Answer Song | |
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Answer Song: "How Do You Sleep?" was written as a retort to Paul McCartney's "Too Many People", and responds to McCartney's portrayal of him and Yoko Ono as egotists by mocking McCartney as a shell of his former self subsiding on his good looks to obscure what Lennon deems a lack of talent. | |
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Evolving Music | |
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Evolving Music: Lennon wrote the melody of "Jealous Guy" in India in 1968, for a song called "Child of Nature". Perhaps because Paul had written "Mother Nature's Son" (both songs apparently inspired by the same Maharishi Mahesh Yogi lecture), John didn't attempt it for The White Album. He briefly tried it again in the early rehearsals for Let It Be (changing the original opening line from "on the road to Rishikesh" to "on the road to Marrakesh"). Obviously knowing it was a strong melody, he rewrote the lyrics from scratch for this album. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Oh Yoko!" about Yoko Ono. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Gimme Some Truth" references the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard" during the line: "No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky / Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me." | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: While Imagine does have "Gimme Some Truth," "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier," and "How Do You Sleep?", that Lennon could go in a year from singing "The dream is over" in "God" to singing "You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one" in "Imagine" suggests that he got something out of his system. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Imagine" and "Jealous Guy" have been covered countless times. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Imagine" and "How?" | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Crippled Inside" has an upbeat melody with jaunty accompaniment, but the lyrics are quite dark and almost cynical. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier," where Lennon shows that war is so horrible that a young recruit doesn't want to be drafted and killed in a faraway land. | |
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