Lennon Beatles IMAGINE APPLE 45 RPM SINGLE ACETATE
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JOHN LENNON
IMAGINE
10 INCH ONE SIDED STEREO 45 RPM SINGLE APPLE ACETATE
"Imagine" was the most successful song of John Lennon's solo career after his tenure in the Beatles, his only solo composition that can be considered an across-the-board standard. It remains curious that this should be the case, since the lyrics of "Imagine" disparage religion, capitalism, and patriotism, and embrace an atheistic, socialist utopia...As he prepared a new album in the spring and summer of 1971, he continued to explore these concerns, and "Imagine" was one result. Composed on the piano, the song has a gentle tone and a simple melody. Recalling the poetry book Grapefruit, written by his wife Yoko Ono, which exhorted readers to imagine various fanciful things, Lennon wrote lyrics in which he asked listeners to imagine a world without religion, national borders, or possessions, in which people lived in peace and brotherhood. "You may say I'm a dreamer," sang the man who had sung "The dream is over" less than a year before, "but I'm not the only one." The message couldn't have been more explicit, containing phrases like "no religion," yet it never stirred up resentment, perhaps because it was rendered with such an appealing arrangement and in such a hopeful mood. Lennon himself would later refer to it as being akin to his bitter song "Working Class Hero," but with a sugarcoating..."Imagine" was the leadoff track and title song of Lennon's second solo album, released in September 1971, which topped the U.S. charts and went gold.
-Partial Review By William Ruhlmann
Offered is John Lennon's advance acetate of his then-upcoming hit single, "Imagine" - a priceless historic relic which has come to symoblize a significant piece of John Lennon / Beatles History.
The labels have bleed-through which is to be expected for an acetate from 1971.
The grooves on the acetate are in NEAR MINT condition.
This is the standard stereo single mix.
EXTREMELY RARE!
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