Posted on 12/29/2018 7:09:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I've just heard it announced that one of the "highlights" of the New Year's Eve celebration in NYC's Times Square will be a performance of John Lennon's "Imagine," this time by one Bebe Rexha. I'll admit to being "culturally deprived"; I've never heard of that person. And it turns out that "Imagine" has been performed at other Times Square New Year's Eve celebrations since 2005 (2012 and 2016, for example, by other performers of whom I'd never heard), with videos of the crowds enthusiastically waving their arms and singing along.
Now, I'm a big fan of The Beatles, and I happen to think John Lennon was a musical genius, and I'm still sad and angry at his having been murdered in front of his home on Central Park West in December of 1980. And I've even visited "Strawberry Fields," the shrine to him just inside Central Park from the spot where he was gunned down.
And I think "Imagine" is a great song, musically speaking. Content-wise, I'm not that crazy about it. For anyone unfamiliar with the lyrics, they are as follows:
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 some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Like the author of this article, I love the Beatles and am a big fan of much of Lennon’s work. But “Imagine” is unadulterated crap. “Whatever Gets You Through The Night” would be my choice for New Year’s Eve.
It must not be that great a song, then.
Auld Lang Sing what ever happened to it? Traditions are out the window yeh forget the ball, forget Times Square. Oh if they did that the traditionalists might come back.
Speaking of ..check out Andrew Bird’s version of Auld Lang Syne.
Utopian nihilism, all to a pedestrian melody.
You are correct: McCartney was the melodicist; Lennon was the lyricist.
Each needed the other. And both needed George Martin.
To: Stu Tarlow
Re: The Beatles
I personally always despised the BUGS, their so called music was juvenile bubblegum noise in my opinion.
The only thing that made them popular was a bunch of hysterical, hormonal, bobby soxers that had the warmies for anything English.
The only English bands that ever wrote anything worth listening to was THE WHO, and a few tunes by the Rolling Stones.
I Like "Instant Karma" too....
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