After the harrowing Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon returned to calmer, more conventional territory with Imagine. While the album had a softer surface, it was only marginally less confessional than its predecessor. Underneath the sweet strings of "Jealous Guy" lies a broken and scared man, the jaunty "Crippled Inside" is a mocking assault at an acquaintance, and "Imagine" is a paean for peace in a world with no gods, possessions, or classes, where everyone is equal. And Lennon doesn't shy away from the hard rockers -- "How Do You Sleep" is a scathing attack on Paul McCartney, "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" is a hypnotic antiwar song, and "Give Me Some Truth" is bitter hard rock. If Imagine doesn't have the thematic sweep of Plastic Ono Band, it is nevertheless a remarkable collection of songs that Lennon would never be able to better again.
From the Amnesty International web site:More than 50 musical artists (names to be announced) have joined this international effort that combines John Lennon music, technology, and human rights activism. The CD, "Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur," will be released by Warner Brothers Records and arrive in stores the week of June 12th. Additional singles from the album will be released l...
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After watching the movie "The U.S. vs. John Lennon", I realized how crazy our government was...and still is..I just dont understand how cops and "the man" could look at the peacenicks and go "Wow, they are a threat to the US! We better bring them down" So they attack the people minding their own business and singing All you need is love, and Give peace a chance and injure many of them for no re...
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Bought Imagine on Friday. Really solid album. I'm not an enormous fan of the Beatles, but I like there later stuff like Sergeant Pepper's, Abbey Road, etc. Anyways, I really liked most of the songs on this album. I'd obviously heard the title track before, but none of the rest of it. So, here's my favorite song off the cd:
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From the Amnesty International web site:More than 50 musical artists (names to be announced) have joined this international effort that combines John Lennon music, technology, and human rights activism. The CD, "Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur," will be released by Warner Brothers Records and arrive in stores the week of June 12th. Additional singles from the album will be released l...
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/06102007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/all_talk__no_hikes_opedcolumnists_george_f__will.htm"....No short haired yellow bellied son of tricky dicky's gonna soft soap me with just a pocket full of hope....And money for dopeMoney for rope"PLAY IT GEORGE
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I think this might be my favorite John Lennon song. Seventeen years after I first heard it, it _still_ makes me cry, im not ashamed to say it.
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Aside from the obvious reasons I might want to upload this song, I really think this is a fun song and imagine Lennon having a really good time writing it, a kind of orgiastic language lovefest. It reminds me a lot of playing the dozens as a kid back in the day.I'm sick and tired of hearing thingsFrom uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritesAll I want is the truthJust gimme some truth I...
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Jealous Guy is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. It is one of the most commonly covered Lennon songs, with near 100 recorded cover versions by musicians like Donny Hathaway, the Black Crowes, Jeff Tweedy, Peter Criss, the Deftones, Roxy Music(The song was the only #1 chart hit for Roxy Music), Elliott Smith, Lou Reed and Youssou N'Dour.R...
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Interview with John Lennon by Jim Ladd in October 1974.Audio and video restored and visualized by Mark Elsebusch for MEO Media Arts. Available for viewing and download here.Part 1:http://www.archive.org/details/Markelsebusch-JimLaddInterviewsJohnLennonPart1Of4382Part 2:http://www.archive.org/details/Markelsebusch-JimLaddInterviewsJohnLennonPart2Of4187Part 3:http://www.archive.org/details/Markel...
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Bought Imagine on Friday. Really solid album. I'm not an enormous fan of the Beatles, but I like there later stuff like Sergeant Pepper's, Abbey Road, etc. Anyways, I really liked most of the songs on this album. I'd obviously heard the title track before, but none of the rest of it. So, here's my favorite song off the cd:
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Yoko Ono has taken up yet another cause in the name of her late hubby, John Lennon. The former musical muse has filed a lawsuit against Orlando, Fla.-based heavy-metal singer-slash-songwriter Lennon Murphy for naming her band after herself. As in Lennon. Ono, according to TMZ, alleges the use of Lennon is a "tarnishment" of the late Beatle’s name and is claiming Murphy "fraudulently" registe.
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High quality audio and YouTube video don't seem to go together but I did my best audio mastering I could and added additional vocals at the chorus.
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john lennon: electric guitarklaus voormann: bassjim keltner: drumsbobby keyes: saxophone Apparently prior to the King Curtis sax overdubs and if I'm not mistaken sans George's slide.At any rate, feeling the funk with a message.
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It took me until I saw the 579th post on John Lennon that I realized it was the anniversary of his death yesterday. Sorry. Coincidentally, didn't see any posts on how Sean Lennon is correct, he is definitely not his father.
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After watching the movie "The U.S. vs. John Lennon", I realized how crazy our government was...and still is..I just dont understand how cops and "the man" could look at the peacenicks and go "Wow, they are a threat to the US! We better bring them down" So they attack the people minding their own business and singing All you need is love, and Give peace a chance and injure many of them for no re...
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My god, I used to hate this song. I mean, I used to abhor it. This was the song that brought back the fact that John a solo and there'd be no going back, and oh how I hated him for it. This was what I had to listen to on the radio as I was discovering The Beatles...as I was discovering there was an end to The Beatles. The song just crystallized that end for me, and damn if I didn't hate cha...
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my name is kelsey painterand i have a problemi am a lurker. a down right, creepy old man with his belly hanging out of his sweat stained white tee lurker. ...or crazy-haired pedophile smiled hawaiian tee lurkeri will read your blogsi will read you "about mes" and "vital signs" and maybe even steal some of your musicbut god damniti will not comment youi caaannnot comment youwhy?i really don't k...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Imagine |
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| 2 Crippled Inside |
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| 3 Jealous Guy |
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| 4 It's So Hard |
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| 5 I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier |
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| 6 Gimme Some Truth |
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| 7 Oh My Love |
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| 8 How Do You Sleep? |
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| 9 How? |
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| 10 Oh Yoko! |
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