Comments on: Imagine

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:33:45 +0000

I heard that too. Has anyone been able to confirm if that was the beginnings of “Imagine” or was it just a coincidence?

By: Nono

Nono — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 15:40:43 +0000

I just realized something. If you’re a Christian you know that there will be a day that Jesus will come and there will no longer be a heaven and hell but we will be here on this earth the way it was always meant to be. No killing, no division, no religion. Religion is the opposite of what Jesus taught. I just wish people would read the Bible and see that Jesus was the ultimate anti-religious person ever. In that view this song pictures exactly what God always intended for us and what will be one day. May love and unity continue to be spread by this song. And I truly hope that if anyone who reads this has always just discarded Jesus Christ because of what you have heard people say, that you will read what he said for yourself. He is love and truth and peace. Everything this song stands for.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:07:23 +0000

So now Paul’s sheepdog will get co-credit for “Martha My Dear”?

“Martha my dear
You have always been my inspiration
Please, be good to me
Martha my love…”

It’s about time!!!

By: Joseph Brush

Joseph Brush — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 04:09:12 +0000

According to a statement made in June of this year, the National Music Publishers Association, hereby claims that Yoko Ono as co-writer of the song “Imagine”.
Now it seems that inspiration qualifies as authorship.

By: tiff333

tiff333 — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 23:29:35 +0000

John Lennon’s masterpiece song, the lyrics and music are simply beautiful. I don’t understand why some people accuse this song as a communist manifesto song. I see nothing communist about this song.

John Lennon was truly a talented songwriter, I personally hate it when people like to pit him against Paul McCartney. I mean, both John and Paul are extremely talented songwriters who deserve to get all the praise. John and Paul made The Beatles great with their songwriting ability.

By: Snow Badua

Snow Badua — Wed, 24 May 2017 04:53:17 +0000

How sure are you that you are going to heaven and John is not???

By: Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 20:23:27 +0000

Not particularly related, but on “I’ll Get You”, I love the two-part harmony in the ‘middle eight’ measures. Genius!

By: August lake

August lake — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:08:39 +0000

No religion too. Oh my, I was hoping John would be in heaven. But his belief system and this song make it fairly clear I will never met him. Now im bummed out for sure.

By: Jonathan Steele

Jonathan Steele — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 18:39:22 +0000

I agree, a lovely song and poignant words. I have, for a few years now, tho I ve never seen or heard it said by anyone, often wondered if John ever read the poems of John Clare. I was born very near Clare’s birthplace of Helpston, and he was, to my mind, one of the greatest poets England has produced. He was a humble farm labourer, known in sniffy English society of the times then and since as the “peasant poet”. This would have appealed I’m sure to John!

One of Clare’s poems is titled,I Am! Add “a gine” and there’s Imagine.

“I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smiled or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept ;
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below —above, the vaulted sky”

By: Knight

Knight — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:59:21 +0000

The lyrics are beautiful. I’ve seen a lot of people saying bad stuff about it and the ideologies presented in it. A big argument I see about it is that it says that life in this utopia has no meaning. That’s completely wrong, as Lennon clearly said it’s about being happy. “Imagine all the people living for today.”

By: goshawk1957

goshawk1957 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:02:10 +0000

I just Love the Piano on Imagine.

By: goshawk1957

goshawk1957 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:01:13 +0000

Im a big Fan of John’s and Nicky’s i would have thought that Nicky was the main piano player on Imagine,i love his piano on Oh Yoko,Crippled Inside,Jealous Guy and his Electric Piano on How Do You Sleep which I’ve recently had all these songs transcribed for Piano 100% Perfect.

By: David (from Peru)

David (from Peru) — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:23:42 +0000

I’ve just posted a video on YouTube with a mix between Imagine and Watching The Wheels I’ve made yesterday. Both songs are great and share many (harmonic) similarities, so I said “It’s easy if you try”, worked for 8 hours straight with Audacity and made this little mixed version (WtW as the backing track + Imagine vocals). Hope you can check it out! It is at: /watch?v=HrIsTWyMNQg

By: David (from Peru)

David (from Peru) — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:59:27 +0000

I haven’t read it, but I will! That will certanly be one more Beatles’ book in my to-read list. Thanks for the information.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:17:27 +0000

This is John Lennons most iconic song. A great opening to a great album. He and Phil Spector working together at their best.I loved it in the film Imagine where Lennon is singing this on the large white piano.IT was fantastic that they showed this at the closing of the 2012 London Olympics.

By: Graham Paterson

Graham Paterson — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:25:49 +0000

A great song and great title track to a great album. This is John Lennons most iconic song . I love it on the film Imagine with Lennon playing this on the large white piano. This song is one of the greatest of all time. What a way in 2012 when they played this at the closing of the London Olympics.

By: Silly Girl

Silly Girl — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:31:17 +0000

Have you been reading Steve Turner’s “A Hard Day’s Write”? Because it’s uncanny, that’s exactly what he says under “I’ll Get You”.

By: foreverOK

foreverOK — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:04:31 +0000

It’s beautiful just to play the instrumental.

By: Perch

Perch — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:43:14 +0000

One of the greatest song ever’ along with the great Bob Marley ‘ s ‘Redemption Songs’!!!!!

By: Required

Required — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:24:20 +0000

great insight, i never saw that connection!