John Lennon
John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and activist who co-founded The Beatles. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. He formed his first band, the Quarrymen, in 1957 which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970 Read Full BioJohn Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and activist who co-founded The Beatles. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. He formed his first band, the Quarrymen, in 1957 which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a sporadic solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as "Give Peace a Chance", "Working Class Hero", and "Imagine". After he married Yoko Ono in 1969, he added "Ono" as one of his middle names. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was shot and killed in front of his Manhattan apartment three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved from London to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. He formed his first band, the Quarrymen, in 1957 which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970 Read Full BioJohn Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and activist who co-founded The Beatles. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. He formed his first band, the Quarrymen, in 1957 which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a sporadic solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as "Give Peace a Chance", "Working Class Hero", and "Imagine". After he married Yoko Ono in 1969, he added "Ono" as one of his middle names. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was shot and killed in front of his Manhattan apartment three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved from London to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
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Imagine
John Lennon Lyrics
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: John Winston Lennon
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Pamela Kapeen
Imagine if John was still alive, sadly we can only imagine...
How many more unforgettable songs, he may have written.
How many people from all all walks of life, he would of bought together just by his gift.
To write such true beautiful music!! Only to be sung by himself who is most touching of all beings that ever was born and walked this earth...
I always thought ''ELVIS' was king! But my perception on that great lie has changed forever since...
Mister John Lennon R.I.P king! Your music will remain with all forever.
Ravie Battersby
@Ben Malloy
Just to expand on what Kyanite said If you listen to the lyrics light heartedly it is easy to see where you are coming from, genuinely. but after you listen to the lyrics carefully it becomes clear that it is about a communist manifesto which Lennon states in a interview. The lyrics never mention the word "love" or "freedom" which are at the core of your argument.
"But “Imagine” is a subtly contentious song, Lennon’s greatest combined achievement as a balladeer and agitator. He never uses the words “love” or “freedom” in the lyrics. Instead, he calls for a unity and equality built upon the complete elimination of modern social order: geopolitical borders, organized religion, economic class. There is a mocking dare in his language — “Imagine there’s no countries/It isn’t hard to do” — and he kicks back at the cynics who laughed at his and Ono’s peace actions like the 1969 Bed-Ins: “You may say I’m a dreamer/But I’m not the only one.” - Rolling Stone Magazine https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/imagine-the-anthem-of-2001-83559/
I would like to highlight that Lennon calls for a unity and equality built upon the complete elimination of modern social order: geopolitical borders, organized religion, economic class. Which is literally the DEFINITION OF COMMUNISM. By they way most of your paragraph is just listing bad things and where Lennon could have played and done things.
You also said that Communist manifestos are evil which shows you don't understand communism, manifestos and the point of a political doctrine. Communism is a way of running a country which is based on a classless society which is NOT evil but in some ways a good idea, but in some, controversial. Communism in theory is a great doctrine, it's just the way people preform of it that ends up being evil and full of oppression and authoritarianism e.g. the USSR, North Korea, CCP (China) which all use very similar or the same doctrine to communism. All the doctrines you would call 'evil' like Juche, Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Social Darwinism, Anarchism and more are just a doctrine and nothing more. Some doctrines are based around oppression but the base communism form is not at all.
And just in case you don't know a manifesto is just basically the guidelines that a political party puts around its doctrine.
And finally the evidence that completely proves my point: "Lennon himself described “Imagine” as “virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I am not particularly a communist and I do not belong to any movement…. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted.” Released as a single in the U.S. in the fall of ’71, “Imagine” went to Number Three on Billboard’s Top 100 chart. “Now I understand what you have to do,” Lennon noted. “Put your political message across with a little honey.” - Rolling Stone Magazine. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/imagine-the-anthem-of-2001-83559/
There you go, straight from the horses mouth my friend:)
Panji Matahari
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today (ah ah ah)
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Jorge A. Batoca B.
The Holy Word of God – The Bible:
James 4:4
"4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
1 John 2:15
"15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
Mark 8:36-37
"36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"
John 3 : 16-21
"16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
"17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
"18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
"19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."
"20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."
"21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."
Jorge A. Batoca B.
The Holy Word of God – The Bible:
James 4:4
"4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
1 John 2:15
"15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
Mark 8:36-37
"36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"
John 3 : 16-21
"16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
"17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
"18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
"19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."
"20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."
"21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."
Hila Carmi
Lyrics:
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today (ah ah ah)
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one.
Good Guitarist
ahead of his time, and yet, left before his time
Patricia Smith
This is his best describing the future ahead of his time 💘
Reyes Carrero Arbelo
@Edd Solis pppppppp0p⁰0⁰⁰0
Master Edwin Epps
@Shrivatsa Pande LENNON IS IN HELL FOR BEATING HIS WIFE YOYOMA, FOR BLASPHEMY BY SAYING HE WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN JESUS AND FOR BEING A TRAITOR CUZ HE WAS SCARED TO GO TO VIETNAM
Shrivatsa Pande
You may say im a dreamer but im not the only one who wants john lennon back :(
Master Edwin Epps
@Callum Theunissen LENNON IS IN HELL FOR BEATING HIS WIFE YOYOMA, FOR BLASPHEMY BY SAYING HE WAS BETTER THAN JESUS AND FOR BEING A TRAITOR CUZ HE WAS SCARED TO GO TO VIETNAM
Margarita Resendez
Y aquí nos tienes lennon recordando el gran legado que nos dejaste feliz cumpleaños donde quiera q estés 9 octubre 2021
Giovanni Villanueva
Feliz cumpleaños 81 John :) ojalá pudieras estar vivo eres mi más grande ídolo tu música ha influido mucho en mi vida ♥️🙏
cesar ojeda
CUANTAS CANCIONES MAS HUBIERA HECHO SI ESTUVIERA VIVO MAS COLABORACIONES
Candra Darmawan
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