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".
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.
Imagine
is the second
studio album
by English musician
John Lennon
, released on 9 September 1971 by
Apple Records
. Co-produced by Lennon, his wife
Yoko Ono
and
Phil Spector
, the album's lush sound contrasts the basic, small-group arrangements of his first album,
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
(1970) while the opening
title track
is widely considered to be his
signature song
.
Lennon recorded the album from early to mid-1971 at
Ascot Sound Studios
,
Abbey Road Studios
and the
Record Plant
in New York City, with supporting musicians that included his ex-
Beatles
bandmate
George Harrison
, keyboardist
Nicky Hopkins
, bassist
Klaus Voormann
and drummers
Alan White
and
Jim Keltner
. Its lyrics reflect peace, love, politics, Lennon's experience with
primal scream therapy
, and, following a period of high personal tensions, an attack on his former writing partner
Paul McCartney
in "
How Do You Sleep?
". Extensive footage from the sessions was recorded for a scrapped documentary; parts were released on the documentary film
Imagine: John Lennon
(1988). The documentary
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
, based on that footage, was released in 2018.
Recording for the album started on 24 May at Ascot Sound Studios.
The first songs recorded were "
It's So Hard
" and "
I Don't Want to Be a Soldier
" in February 1971 at
Ascot Sound Studios
, during sessions for Lennon's single "
Power to the People
".
A cover of
the Olympics
' 1958 song "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)", later released on
John Lennon Anthology
, was recorded on 16 February.
Lennon chose to remake "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" on 24 May 1971,
the opening day of the main album sessions.
Lennon enlisted help from
Nicky Hopkins
, members of the
Apple
band
Badfinger
,
Alan White
and
Jim Keltner
. Harrison contributed lead guitar parts on various songs.
Lennon showed the musicians a song that he had recently written, "
Imagine
".
Also recorded was a demo of the future Lennon track "
Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)
", the unreleased song "
San Francisco Bay Blues
", and a demo of "
I'm the Greatest
".
Lennon and his wife
Yoko Ono
flew to New York on 3 July to continue sessions for the album the next day, at
Record Plant
.
There, many instrumental parts were rerecorded, and strings and saxophone by
King Curtis
were also added.
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?"
As on his last album,
Phil Spector
joined Lennon and
Yoko Ono
as co-producer, on
Imagine
. Extensive footage of the sessions, showing the evolution of some of the songs, was originally filmed and titled
Working Class Hero
before being shelved.
Footage of "Gimme Some Truth" aired as part of the
BBC
TV show
The Old Grey Whistle Test
on 12 December 1972.
Parts were released as part of the documentary film
Imagine: John Lennon
.
INCLUDES FREE PLASTIC OUTER ALBUM JACKET SLEEVE
OTHER BEATLES ALBUMS I HAVE POSTED IN EBAY
Beatles Item Numbers
BEATLES
Rare Beatles:
151957186546
Early Beatles:
154082236661
Meet The Beatles:
154082265052
Beatles 2
nd
Album:
154082295801
JOHN LENNON
Plastic Ono Band Live Peace In Toronto 1969:
154086299112
Imagine:
154086321872
Collection:
154086339517
Walls & Bridges
:
154086362646
Heart Play-Unfinished Dialogue:
154086378233
THIS COLLECTORS ITEM is FACTORY SEALED and is being sold as a COLLECTOR'S ITEM AS IS. Being that it is a sealed original copy bought by me at the time of the issue and kept all these years
sealed
I have no way of knowing the condition or what is
sealed
within the jacket. That being said I will not accept returns of the item if it has been opened for any reason. I can tell you it has always been taken the best of care of and stored in a smoke free home on shelving designed for albums stored vertically in a climate controlled atmosphere and being sold as a COLLECTOR'S ITEM ONLY.
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