Ingham, Chris (2006). The Rough Guide to the Beatles. London: Rough Guides/Penguin. pp.64–65. ISBN 978-1-84836-525-4. John Lennon: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano; whistling on ‘Jealous Guy;’ harmonica on ‘Oh Yoko’

In 1971, before they recorded the strings in New York, John, Yoko and Phil did a stereo mix at Ascot Sound Studios, and having that original mix without strings helped in matching the new mixes to the originals. Using that as a starting point, we expanded it out as far as it felt it needed to go – in most cases, it was vocal work. Phil Spector (Co-Producer): We tried to listen to John’s album through four speakers and ended up John, Yoko, engineers, about twenty of us, falling on top of each other in the middle of the room – madness!

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Extensive footage of the sessions, showing the evolution of some of the songs, was originally filmed and titled Working Class Hero before being shelved. [2] Footage of "Gimme Some Truth" aired as part of the BBC TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test on 12 December 1972. [2] Portions were released as part of the documentary film Imagine: John Lennon. [2] Music and lyrics [ edit ] All songs written by John Lennon except ‘Imagine’ and ‘Oh My Love’ written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono Matrix / Runout (B side etched/stamped, "1" is sideways, "..." are under Z15, variant 3): SW-1-3379 Z15. ... 1 Bell Sound sf ✲ The inner sleeve & label titles this release "Imagine: John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band (With The Flux Fiddlers*)" Away from the deep soup-y reverb of the album version, this much earlier recording from 16 February 1971 features Bobby Keys on saxophone with a looser, more reggae feel.

Christgau, Robert (10 February 1972). "Pazz & Jop 1971: Dean's List". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 4 November 2018 . Retrieved 2 November 2018. The title also appears variously as "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die" or "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama".Engineer [Ascot Sound Studios] – Eddie Beer, Eddie Klein, Eddie Veal, Eddie Offor*, Philip Mc Donald* There were no set rules for any of the selections, really. It was just per song – what did we feel would be nice to isolate or show off, that might have escaped people’s initial listening experience. Press with Pinched Spine Cover. Pinched covers have bigger letters on spine than other covers. Artist name "john lennon" measures 17 mm on the pinched ones and about 13,5 mm on the others. One of the things discussed was that, in the future, people would be listening to music in their homes through speakers with no wires, all around them on their walls. They would be able to recreate the sound of a band or an orchestra in that way.

The Imagine recordings were an absolute joy to work with. They are great songs in the hands of superb musicians who really know how to make their instruments sound sonically good and how to play collaboratively. Prime examples: When we heard John’s inhalation and exhalation before he sings ‘Imagine’, we teared up. Clearly a conveyance of deep convictions was about to take place. Interview with John Tout, May 1998". Archived from the original on 18 May 2015 . Retrieved 7 May 2015. Jim Keltner: drums on ‘Crippled Inside,’ ‘Jealous Guy,’ and ‘I Don’t Want to Be a Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die’

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John Lennon – vocals (all), piano (1, 7, 9), electric guitar (2, 4–6, 8, 10), acoustic guitar (3), whistling (3), harmonica (10) Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono – 1980". john-lennon.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2014 . Retrieved 15 December 2007. In 2012, Imagine ranked at number 80 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [38] It dropped to number 223 in the 2020 edition of the list. [39] Legacy [ edit ] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Miles, Barry; Badman, Keith, eds. (2001). The Beatles Diary After the Break-Up: 1970–2001 (reprinted.). London: Music Sales Group. ISBN 978-0-7119-8307-6.