"Imagine" is a utopian song written and performed by John Lennon, which appears on his 1971 album "Imagine". While numerous versions have since come to light, the original's haunting piano and solemn vocal continue to receive strong airplay. In the UK, the song is regularly voted at or near the top of polls to find the greatest song or single of all time, as in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Singles (number two being Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and three being The Beatles' Hey Jude). Rolling Stone magazine voted "Imagine" the third greatest song of all time.
Lennon described the song as "an anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it's sugar-coated, it's accepted." Cited in the book "Lennon in America" by Geoffrey Giuliano.
In the song, Lennon asks the listener to imagine his view of a utopia where there are "no countries", "no religion", "no possessions", no heaven or hell, and "nothing to kill or die for". There are only people "living for today", "living life in peace", and "sharing all the world".
The lyrics were thought to be inspired solely by Lennon's hopes for a more peaceful world. In reality, the song's refrain was coined by Yoko Ono, in reaction to her childhood in Japan during World War II. According to The Sunday Times, the song's refrain can be found in several of her poems written in the early 1960s, before she met Lennon, and in her 1965 book Grapefruit. Lennon admitted that Ono should have been jointly credited for the song. In an interview two days before his death, he said that he had been too macho to reveal her role.
Lennon's claims against property and religion, as well as his repeated use of "the people," have led some to posit the song as being advocative of humanism, communism, and anarchism. [from wikipedia ]
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