JOHN LENNON - IMAGINE - 1971 EMI/Apple PAS10004 2U/1U first UK Issue

	£		16
	$		21

JOHN LENNON - IMAGINE - 1971 - Vinyl LP

 first UK Issue Pressing;   

Matrixes: side 1) YEX 865-2U 139    side 2)   YEX 866 1U  428  Pecko

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Title:  John Lennon - Imagine

Produced by:  John Lennon Yoko & Phil Spector

Catalog Number: Apple Records, PAS 10004

Released: 1971

Matrix Information: (side 1 / side 2)  pressing 

 side 1) YEX 865-2U 139    side 2)   YEX 866-1U  428  Pecko

Description: Cover,  Off white/yellow sleeve with lyrics,  LP

Front Cover: Picture John Lennon, Title

Back Cover:  Picture John Lennon, Title, PAS 10004 (1E 064 o 04914) 

                       (Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in,  Yoko '63)

Spine:  imagine,  john lennon,  apple,  PAS 10004

Lables:  pale Apple/black colour, Title (with the flux fiddlers), Tracklist,  EMI PAX10004, 1971, MFD In UK, 

Condition - 

LP is in as mint condition, there no marks or scratches at all viewed under strong light and looks bright as new in excellent condition both sides. the cover has no significant wear and is in as Excellent condition as is the LP. This LP is part of my well looked after private 70/80s collection ever since I purchased it new, having seen very little occasional use and has been well stored and looked after and  plays perfectly through my adc diamond cartridge and SME titanium Arm on a Sony TTS8000 setup.  please see all photos for more detail. This an original early pressing of this album bought by myself early after its initial release in 1971.

Description -  

Just a year on from the implosion of The Beatles, John Lennon’s life had yet to settle. In 1971, while lawyers picked over the remains of his old band, he travelled with Yoko to meet her family in Japan, and to America pursuing custody of Kyoko, her daughter by ex-husband Tony Cox.

Within John’s own, ever-enquiring mind, a war of ideas was raging. In London and New York he had been drawn to the radical underground, where hippy ideals of the 1960s met the hard-edged politics of a new decade. But this being John, nothing was cut and dried. In parallel he was cultivating an almost mystic line of thought, much of it inspired by the art and poetry of Yoko Ono.

John’s first post-Beatles album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, had emerged in late 1970 to critical praise but only muted approval in the marketplace. The conclusions were, to him, pretty obvious. He might be a trail-blazer in all kinds of ways, but he was at heart a populist – an artist but also an entertainer. The task was to frame his ideas in music that listeners loved and took inside their hearts. That was the role of the next album – the record that became Imagine – was an attempt for maximum communication, offering hopes to the bleeding, battered world.

On the musical level he certainly succeeded. Imagine is the best-loved album of his solo career, while its title track is perhaps his most revered. By contrast to its austere predecessor the new music had melodies in abundance, and colour and variety. It had flashes of broad humour and moments of absolute joy.

In his home outside London, at Tittenhurst Park in Ascot, John had built a studio where he could record the raw tracks, without recourse to his traditional base at Abbey Road.

The producer Phil Spector returned to help John oversee an informal family of musicians.

Among them were George Harrison, and friends like Klaus Voormann and the drummer Alan White, who had all played on John’s tremendous debut collaboration with Spector.

Album - John Lennon Imagine

Side 1)    Imagine, Crippled Inside,  Jealous Guy,  It's so hard,  I don't want to be a soldier

Side 2)   Give me some truth,  Oh my love,  How do you sleep,  How,  Oh Yoko

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