JOHN LENNON "IMAGINE" COLLECTORS ITEM FACTORY SEALED VINYL APPLE RECORDS SW3379

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FACTORY SEALED MINT CONDITION VINYL ALBUM reissue of the 1971 Release of "IMAGINE".<br>A TRUE COLLECTORS ITEM of JOHN LENNON'S "IMAGINE" FACTORY SEALED VINYL ALBUM. This album is a APPLE RECORDS Re-Issue of the original recordings from 1971.<br>Imagine<br>is the second<br>studio album<br>by English musician<br>John Lennon<br>, released on 9 September 1971 by<br>Apple Records<br>. Co-produced by Lennon, his wife<br>Yoko Ono<br>and<br>Phil Spector<br>, the album's lush sound contrasts the basic, small-group arrangements of his first album,<br>John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band<br>(1970) while the opening<br>title track<br>is widely considered to be his<br>signature song<br>.<br>Lennon recorded the album from early to mid-1971 at<br>Ascot Sound Studios<br>,<br>Abbey Road Studios<br>and the<br>Record Plant<br>in New York City, with supporting musicians that included his ex-<br>Beatles<br>bandmate<br>George Harrison<br>, keyboardist<br>Nicky Hopkins<br>, bassist<br>Klaus Voormann<br>and drummers<br>Alan White<br>and<br>Jim Keltner<br>. Its lyrics reflect peace, love, politics, Lennon's experience with<br>primal scream therapy<br>, and, following a period of high personal tensions, an attack on his former writing partner<br>Paul McCartney<br>in "<br>How Do You Sleep?<br>". Extensive footage from the sessions was recorded for a scrapped documentary; parts were released on the documentary film<br>Imagine: John Lennon<br>(1988). The documentary<br>John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky<br>, based on that footage, was released in 2018.<br>Recording for the album started on 24 May at Ascot Sound Studios.<br>The first songs recorded were "<br>It's So Hard<br>" and "<br>I Don't Want to Be a Soldier<br>" in February 1971 at<br>Ascot Sound Studios<br>, during sessions for Lennon's single "<br>Power to the People<br>".<br>A cover of<br>the Olympics<br>' 1958 song "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)", later released on<br>John Lennon Anthology<br>, was recorded on 16 February.<br>Lennon chose to remake "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" on 24 May 1971,<br>the opening day of the main album sessions.<br>Lennon enlisted help from<br>Nicky Hopkins<br>, members of the<br>Apple<br>band<br>Badfinger<br>,<br>Alan White<br>and<br>Jim Keltner<br>. Harrison contributed lead guitar parts on various songs.<br>Lennon showed the musicians a song that he had recently written, "<br>Imagine<br>".<br>Also recorded was a demo of the future Lennon track "<br>Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)<br>", the unreleased song "<br>San Francisco Bay Blues<br>", and a demo of "<br>I'm the Greatest<br>".<br>Lennon and his wife<br>Yoko Ono<br>flew to New York on 3 July to continue sessions for the album the next day, at<br>Record Plant<br>.<br>There, many instrumental parts were rerecorded, and strings and saxophone by<br>King Curtis<br>were also added.<br>The tracks that were finished at Record Plant are "It's So Hard", "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" and "How Do You Sleep?"<br>As on his last album,<br>Phil Spector<br>joined Lennon and<br>Yoko Ono<br>as co-producer, on<br>Imagine<br>. Extensive footage of the sessions, showing the evolution of some of the songs, was originally filmed and titled<br&a