The very first time I heard “Imagine”—from a radio broadcast in Germany in 1972—it instantly struck me as being about the utopia dreamed of by Karl Marx. I thought the singer was some Communist Party hack before I found out who it actually was several months later.
Imagine there’s no Beatles
Its easy if you try
John and George below us
Above us God’s blue sky...
I wonder if he still thinks “Happiness is a Warm Gun”.
Imagine there's no possessions
from a guy who left an estate of around $200 million, which has since grown to around $1 billion. Haven't heard of anyone involved taking imagination to reality and giving up their 'possessions'.
Shameless hypocrisy fed to the ignorant masses. And the rest of the song is equally ridiculous.
Imagine no heaven, no hell below us, no religion, no possessions....
That’s been tried. Things didn’t work out too well for the Khmer Rouge or the country it nearly destroyed.
I liked the Beatles’ early stuff, but hated the products of their drug/zen/free love era. People rail on about how “great” the “white album” was; IMO, it didn’t hold a candle to the music they put out in the early 1960s.
I understand that different people have different opinions, but I can't get over all of the hatred for The Beatles.
If I get tired of Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Robert Earle Keen, I can listen to The Beatles for six hours straight and enjoy it. I will, however, skip parts of "The Beatles" (a/k/a "The White Album").
They're still the most popular and influential popular music band in the world and deservedly so.
I think if he wanted to record it with The Beatles, Paul would have told him that ‘that song is the worst piece of crap I have ever heard.’
Be sure to slide over to Borghesani's "Why The Democrats Need Rush Limbaugh" if you want to really raise your blood pressure. First paragraph:
The post-mortems in the wake of the Republican humiliation on Nov. 6 should have Democrats a tad nervous. Up until Election Day, the anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-compromise tenets of the GOP were unassailable. Now some cracks are emerging in the Koch brothers-Fox News-Karl Rove edifice.
Not somebody I'd trust, even with reasons why "Imagine" is a lousy song ...
The author obviously knows nothing about the genesis of the song. He might do a little background research:
When asked about the song’s meaning during a December 1980 interview with David Sheff for Playboy magazine, Lennon told Sheff that Dick Gregory had given Ono and him a Christian prayer book, which helped inspire in Lennon what he described as:
“The concept of positive prayer ... If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion—not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing—then it can be true ... the World Church called me once and asked, “Can we use the lyrics to ‘Imagine’ and just change it to ‘Imagine one religion’? That showed [me] they didn’t understand it at all. It would defeat the whole purpose of the song, the whole idea.”
My sister told me she went to a funeral for a friend’s teenage son at a Baptist church where they played this horrible “Imagine” song because it was his favorite song. Talk about cognitive dissonance.