Imagine - The Ultimate Collection - the audio box set: http://bit.ly/imagine-ult Imagine John Yoko - the definitive book: http://bit.ly/imaginejohnyoko Imagine film remastered - BluRay/DVD: http://bit.ly/ImagineGST-Amazon IMAGINE 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... 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 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 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. written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono John Lennon: vocals and piano Klaus Voormann: bass Alan White: drums The Flux Fiddlers: strings Produced by John & Yoko and Phil Spector Recorded at Ascot Sound Studios, 27 May 1971 String overdubs recorded at Record Plant, NY, 4 July 1971 Filmed at Tittenhurst Park, 21 July 1971. ABOUT IMAGINE John: ‘Imagine’ is a song conceived in my head without melody. The first verse came to me very quickly in the form of a childlike street chant ‘da da da da da dee dee da dee da ee a eeeh’. The piano intro I’ve had hanging around in my head for a few years – the chords and melody followed naturally from this. The middle eight was ‘conceived’ to finish off the song. I think it works as a song. Of course, there is always room for improvement – otherwise I wouldn’t make any more. The third verse came to me in an eight-seater plane. It’s a song for children. Yoko: ‘Cloud Piece’: ‘Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in.’ This is not a piece of poetry. Poetry to me is nouns or adjectives. This is verbs. And you have to do them. These are all instructions and when you jus