Julian Lennon sings John’s ‘Imagine’
for first time ever in Ukraine fundraiser
New York Post,
by
Mary Kay Linge
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/9/2022 8:29:43 PM
Julian Lennon broke his longstanding vow never to perform his father’s most iconic solo song, “Imagine,” during a benefit for Ukrainian refugees Saturday.“Today, for the first time ever, I publicly performed my Dad’s song, ‘Imagine’,” Lennon, 59, wrote on YouTube. “The song reflects the light at the end of the tunnel, that we are all hoping for.”The singer-songwriter son of Beatle John Lennon presented the cover version of his father’s ode to peace as part of the Stand Up For Ukraine campaign,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 4/9/2022 8:38:05 PM (No. 1124198)
That song is a communist's anthem.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cindiana 4/9/2022 8:41:14 PM (No. 1124200)
Unless I've missed something along the way, it seems that the children of Beatles have lived very respectable, low-key lives.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wordsmith82 4/9/2022 8:51:32 PM (No. 1124205)
Dreadful song.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Michaelus 4/9/2022 8:53:39 PM (No. 1124208)
"Nothing to kill or die for"........is that what they wanted to hear?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/9/2022 8:53:52 PM (No. 1124209)
Imagine there's no John Lennon. It's easy if you try.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/9/2022 9:23:51 PM (No. 1124227)
Stupid song then. Stupid song now.
Stupid song forever.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
happywarrior 4/9/2022 9:43:53 PM (No. 1124233)
A literal pipe dream. Keep on smokin'.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pixelero 4/9/2022 9:45:10 PM (No. 1124234)
A hardcore testimony to a grasp of current reality.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/9/2022 10:00:16 PM (No. 1124241)
I hate this song above all others! Makes man the ultimate creature of worship!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/9/2022 10:01:22 PM (No. 1124242)
John Lennon would be a right winger with today's RAT party.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/9/2022 10:12:52 PM (No. 1124250)
Musically very nice, nice harmonies, nice interpretation. But naivete remains in the lyrics, a poisonous naivete.
Evil lives in the heart of Man. Only a True spiritual redemption offers hope of transformed temperaments.
For now, it's "Wars and rumors of wars."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 4/9/2022 10:21:38 PM (No. 1124255)
Our high school class was forced to sing this POS song at our graduation. Many of us mouthed the words. Others who actually sang, sung it like it was for a funeral.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/9/2022 10:28:49 PM (No. 1124267)
HORRIBLE song, pure Communist drivel.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/9/2022 10:46:03 PM (No. 1124286)
how is this worthy of publication? john lennon was a budding communist and, in my opinion, John Hinckley did the world a favor by snuffing out his candle - never was that crazy about the Beatles after they became so hugely popular, they tried, as in lennon's case, to shape public opinion through their music and public discourse
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/9/2022 11:28:11 PM (No. 1124312)
I always picture East German cinder block housing complexes and barbed wire when I hear this song.
Oh, and it's a gray day as well.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
SALady 4/10/2022 12:27:23 AM (No. 1124329)
I just really, really hate this song!!!!! It is literally my least favorite song of all times -- and I am in my mid-60's, so I have heard a lot of music in my life!!!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/10/2022 12:38:39 AM (No. 1124331)
This song romanticises anarchy. Julian is as much of a cultural termite as hus father.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/10/2022 1:01:24 AM (No. 1124336)
#10 is 100% correct. Check out the lyrics to "Revolution."
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Sully 4/10/2022 7:00:25 AM (No. 1124379)
The Lpeeps are on fire today! LOL
I thought I was the only one who deplored this commie anthem.
We don't know any of these folks in real life, but Julian has always seemed a good kid. Been caught in private acts of kindness out of the limelight. Speaks humbly. Godblessem
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
philsner 4/10/2022 7:39:11 AM (No. 1124404)
The definition of grift.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
smaricic 4/10/2022 8:33:36 AM (No. 1124454)
To #14, John Hinckley shot Reagan, not Lennon. John Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman, and that terrible act is nothing to celebrate. Like many, I hate the lyrics to "Imagine" -- why, for example, would it be great to imagine there is no Heaven? Still, though JL's politics and life choices sometimes bothered me, he was a musical genius who gave a lot to this world, writing or contributing to an amazing number of songs. "Eleanor Rigby" is one of the great sad songs. "Let it be" -- one of the great songs of hope and patience. Some were just fun to sing: Penny Lane, Ob-La-Di, Sgt. Pepper..., etc. If JL had lived, he might have changed his political tune. Don't ask for perfection. The perfect is the enemy of the good -- even of the great.
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I am a big Beatles and John Lennon fan. "Imagine" is the absolute worst song he ever wrote.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Yuban 4/10/2022 9:01:43 AM (No. 1124486)
Imagine if more people read and believed the Bible.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/10/2022 9:26:19 AM (No. 1124511)
#11 makes good sense. And as bad as the lyrics were, I believe Yoko Ono did some screeching on Imagine. (She certainly screeched on Woman, which should be a felony to play.)
And, #21, I always interpreted Let It Be as a form of contrition by the Beatles for all of their anti-society , anti-religion stuff.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/10/2022 9:54:36 AM (No. 1124543)
Some of these posts make you wonder if they caught their spouse in bed with Lennon.
Hinkley would be honored.....
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
envirodude 4/10/2022 9:55:56 AM (No. 1124544)
#21. Lennon vs McCarthy’s songwriting talents and points of view.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/10/2022 10:13:16 AM (No. 1124566)
Keep in mind that Lennon wrote that drivel after hooking up with the odious Yoko Ono.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/10/2022 10:24:23 AM (No. 1124588)
Julian Lennon, who had several popular hits a long time ago, had a similar singing timbre and sounded much like his father, which was really rather nice. I hope his life is in order and that he is content these days. He had a lot of talent, even exclusive of his father. I enjoyed his records.
For all the proper reasons "Imagine" was the only pop song that ever figured in my 1971 Sunday School class. That song made about as much sense as Cat Stevens's contemporaneous line (from "Changes IV"), "Don’t you feel the day is coming And it won’t be too soon When the people of the world Can all live in one room." That doesn't sound like a pleasant existence. I don't want everyone in the world in my room. Additionally, I don't want everyone "Living for the day" (from "Imagine"). At my age and health, I'd rather live for the Lord. If the whole world goes carpe diem, it will be a madhouse everywhere where everyone will have to be armed and hostile to stay alive. That said, as bad as the lyrics of "Imagine" are, the song, particularly the refrain, sounds pretty, and Lennon, who was pretty whacked out on Ono's odd thinking when he wrote it, probably meany well. We all have our bad days. Lennon, the founder and leader of the most important musical group any of us will ever see, was a flawed man but a genius.
I'm mainly in agreement with #21, although every Lennon-McCartney song he lists in the reply ("Eleanor Rigby," "Let it Be," "Penny Lane," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" [which John absolutely hated], and "Sgt. Peppers") was entirely or almost entirely written by Paul, not John. Paul was the superior melodist of the two, although John could write beautiful songs (for instance, "Strawberry Fields Forever," "In My Life," or "Across the Universe").
Factoid: "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Lennon)+ "Penny Lane" (McCartney) was arguably the best double-A sided single ever released, but the single was the first Beatles' single not to reach #1 since the first album. It got to #2. What was #1? "Release Me" by Englebert Humperdinck. Both John and Paul considered that a kick in the pants. Englebert Humperdinck? One other thing: "Strawberry Fields Forever" Take 1 from November 24, 1966, less then three minutes long, wasn't released until 1996 on the middle Anthology set. That one song showed that the Beatles were a changed group, ready to embark on Sgt. Peppers. If you haven't heard it, you'll be amazed.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/10/2022 10:30:11 AM (No. 1124598)
War will not exist when the millions of people who want to kill you no longer exist.
The Beatles were a Liverpool night club act that became popular through singing Buddy Holly's songs and growing long hair, especially the long hair part. Anybody could write the simple lyrics and music of the 60s and almost everybody who got a guitar for Christmas did.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/10/2022 10:59:59 AM (No. 1124637)
Does anyone listen to the lyrics? It's about more than "peace". Maybe Yoko can explain it. She can especially discuss the meaning of "no possessions" in her apartment at the Dakota. I suspect Julian is far from that lifestyle himself.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/10/2022 12:22:55 PM (No. 1124726)
Is this really “news”?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Faithfully 4/10/2022 8:53:08 PM (No. 1124989)
Julian is caught between a rock and a hard place. No inheritance from his odious father.
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