Ten Interesting Facts About John Lennon's Imagine
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- John Lennon’s Imagine, perhaps the most socially influential song ever written. Beloved my millions as an anthem for the future of the planet and its people. Today we’re going show you ten very interesting facts about the masterpiece that is IMAGINE.
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Fact number 11: He would have hated the celebrities' cover.
Imagine no originality
It isn't hard to do..
I don’t know, A Perfect Circle’s cover is pretty dope
he probably would have made fun of it
@FBI Alypstick I wrote this comment in March of 2020, right after the Gal Gadot cover.
He might of liked Elton John's cover. They were really good friends until John sadly passed away.
I hope Paul, Ringo and Yoko are keeping well during this pandemic
Me too
I too hope that paul and ringo are well
@@Sandra_aschenbach_doyle And Yoko.
I was thinking about that too
Don't forget Olivia!
For school, I just did a biography on John Lennon. I dressed up like him, good for me I had the Reinhardt jacket :) Keep it up man love your videos!
Also, could we see more videos of solo material by the Beatles?
I wrote a biography on him for school too!!
Same and I did Freddie Mercury
Nice guys who doesn't like music!
the book I had "Being John Lennon" has a pic of John's album Two Virgins and as soon as my friend saw it he started showing it to everyone. I took the book out of his hand and put it in my locker. Also I kept trying to explain to my friends that he wasn't gay. It was a struggle but the project grade paid off.
In the days leading up to homecoming there were “dress up” days and I was John Lennon from the Abbey Road cover
A very timely video about imagine in dark times like this.
Every time I hear the song I think about either kindergarten or the time someone told me they didn’t like it because it’s “Communist”
Even John had said the song was communist.
neither John, nor this song
Especially now after Ben Shapiro got triggered a couple days ago and made a video about the song😂 now all of his stans are posting comments crying about communism in the comment section of Imagine
@@jeffsanders663 he said it as a joke not literally 🤦🏽♂️
I mean the song was heavily influenced from the Communist Manifesto and was mostly a test to see how Lennon could present the ideals of the manifesto in easy to understand terms, even though he didn't consider himself a Marxist. I'm not a Marxist either, I consider my political beliefs to align with Peter Kropotkin and a less batshit insane J. Posadas. In all honesty, I see Imagine as closer to Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Kropotkin than Marx and Engels' manifesto but that can be argued since Kropotkin argued for more of a commune based formation of society than the usual internationale approach that Marxists talk about as well as the topics that Lennon brought up in Imagine.
What? Are you saying Forest Gump didn’t inspire it?!
That's impossible we saw it live on the dick show
😱😱
ruben martinez r/wooosh
Forest Gump is DEAD
John was like the more childish of the beatles, always thinking about fantasies and utopian scenarios. I think he gave humanity way more credit than we deserve.
We as Jehovah witness pray for a brotherhood of and the world living as on
Well, it’s called a PHILOSOPHER my friend. Not childish to be a deep thinker outside the box
@@hw343434 I think you have a misconception of what a philosopher is, but that being said anyone can be a philosopher, even the ones with a childish way of thinking.
@@marcozuleta133 Childish is not the right word, because children are terrible abstract thinkers, which is fundamental in any philosophical thinking. I think you´re trying to say he was "naive", believing in simple but impossible solutions. You could make that argument, but you can also argue in Lennon´s peace message, he´s probably inspired millions of people to just be a little bit better to their fellow human beings, and that´s more than most people. I also think people are taking Imagine to literally, it´s music, it´s art, not a political manifesto. Art works with metaphors, invoking feelings through concepts and poetry. I personally think the idea of no religion, no countries, no wealth etc. is ridiculous, but I still love Imagine, because it´s a beautiful piece of art that invokes a nice feeling inside of me.
@@comedyriff5231 childish also means naive and imaginative. Children see the world as they want it to be not as it is and in that world anything is possible. Imagine might be a cultural phenomenon but of all of Lennon's songs I dislike the most, precisely because is too naive and in some ways corny...I like my Lennon to be twisted and to make you think not about the workds but about the possibilities behind them.
Coincidentally, because of the Coronavirus epidemic, Gal Gadot, Will Ferrel, Sarah Silverman, Sia, and a bunch of random people who nobody knows or cares about performed a fake and horrible rendition of the song to cheer us up
siddhesh patankar It’s a great song & it can mean so much to so many who are trying to deal with their current circumstances because of this pandemic. However, I think there are just way too many people who have or will be suffering the loss of a loved one directly due to the Coronavirus who are suffering so badly from shock and anger that they aren’t even close to being capable of accepting what has just occurred. And even still, any form of acceptance, (whenever that time comes,) will most likely be accompanied by a bunch of perfectly justifiable grievances. Now, I know George Harrison was very spiritual including at the time he wrote this song, and unfortunately I lack that quality. Therefore, my interpretation of the lyrics may be off from what he had intended. But, I’m giving my opinion anyways. I feel like the lyrics, “All things must pass away” would perhaps be doing more harm than good for this subset of people...the family & friends of those who have died & will die from COVID-19. Maybe we could find something else that could universally help pull everyone up...🎼🧐🎶📈🥳
It’s not a epidemic it is a pandemic
No posession sung by millionaires
@@Scrimjer you can't make this shiff up
People are stupid. These are their defining moments. DB 2020
Awesome video as always! “Imagine” is one of my favorites. Also, if anyone wants to know the piano piece at the end of a lot of these videos, it’s Claude Debussy’s, “The Girl With Flaxen Hair”. ❤️
At first I was a little uncertain if I liked this song or not.. I listened to it on Spotify, and some of what John Lennon had said about the meaning was under it. It clarified a lot of things for me, and I realized that ultimately it's what I want for the world too.
I think you need more subscribers 🥺☺️
Another great video. Thank you for this. I also HATED Cee Lo Green's version with the reworked lyrics.
So many of John's songs, from "Nowhere Man" to "Jealous Guy" to "Imagine", openly address the gap between the flawed reality of his life (and all of our lives as human beings) and the lofty ambition of his dreams for a better world. His honesty is what makes his music so powerful and compelling.
Yeah. CeeLo Green ruined it. That was for New Years Eve. Lots of other people performed Imagine for New Years. My favorite version is by Train. Train is one of my favorite bands. They did Hey Soul Sister, Drive By, Mermaid, 50 Ways to Say Goodbye, Drops of Jupiter, Calling All Angels, Save Me San Francisco, and Play That Song.
What a great voice. I mean yours. I get energized into an awesome learning mode when I hear you speak. Right again Dr. Pavlov...
While it may be a touchy subject I think a video about Phill Spector's production work would be interesting. People seem to either love or hate his wall of sound style. Yes he's now known for other things I'm not gonna mention that.
Yeah, music production, Specter was pretty damn good!
I love this, I wish we still had John here today. I love him with all of my hear and I miss him..🥺💕
I agree with every word here...to me "imagine" is the best song ever written...it was..and still is...so futuristic..it boggles the mind..r.i.p john...thanks for the memories👍
Has anyone realised this is exactly how Joseph Stalin thought
Nice video, a great John Lennon song 👍
Imagine a revolution, all you need is love, give peace a chance.
Thanks for this video!!
the ending gave me goosebumps for some reason, great video
Thank you so much for your wonderful description of Imagine...you made my heart sink!
i hate how people are hating on john just because some celebrities were singing imagine. it's like the point flied over their head.
Flew
Interesting information,
I like your Channel 👍
All the best from Sweden 😷🇸🇪
I simply adore this song and being a teenager in the 60s and living just 120 miles from Liverpool, I claim the Beatles as my own. Now what the Beatles did, and John Lennon was a major player, was not just influencing the social atmosphere of the 1960s but riding the wave of the revolutionary era that was that remarkable decade of the 1960s. I think the overriding spirit was of revolution and peace for the world.
It just so happens that exactly 100 years before, and I sense that anniversaries have a resonance in our collective consciousness, this quote was written,
'The wellbeing of mankind its peace and security are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.'
The influence of the Beatles especially George Harrison, and John in his day, in introducing the western youth to the Eastern religions, was throwing up so many questions including surely at their root the religions are all the same. John often caught the spirit but also just missed the mark, about a number of things such as 'no religion' and 'no possessions' and he could change his mind and often contradict himself. Of course the idea that my God bigger than your God is, in my opinion, rather non sensical because if you believe there is a God, the universal creator then by definition 'uni' there is only one God.
Then there is the 'and all the world will live as one' which again echoes the same 19th century teachings that
'The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.'
Who is the source of this philosophy, a teaching of the unity of the human race, of equality of men and women, of seeing the religions as one? Answer Bahá'u'lláh (the Glory of God) and the Founder of the Bahá'i Faith. See Rainn Wilson's simple introduction:
czcams.com/video/zLSaDVG4yBE/video.html
This is the driving force that had a resurgence in the early 1960s and influenced the youth of the time and revolutionised the global consciousness for peace and unity. The Beatles and many others simply got swept up in the spirit of the age and expressed it through their music and other arts.
120 miles in a long way in England. I am nearer than that but wouldn't make any claims
Nicely done
Just a great video on this one . !!! I did like it and be safe out there !!!
hey hollyhobs, what is that beautiful piano piece and the end of some of these videos? it makes me feel so nice and easy. (also absolutely love your channel and everything you do. keep up the great stuff!)
austin hubbard
It’s Claude Debussy’s, “The Girl With Flaxen Hair”. ❤️
Great tune by John
just what we needed : ) - always such great videos - the editing and the information - and always presented so heartfelt - thank you!
Very cool and interesting I enjoyed it
All things must pass please!!
Ello from the Philippines! Huge fan of John here!
Low key been thinking about this for the past week
another thing few people acknowledge is the fact that John thought the song was kind of naive and cliche so he was quite embarrassed by that but he still agreed with the message of peace and love
I came for the facts, but stayed for the way he speaks/presents.
best one yet keep it up
Beautiful video, congratulations. I didn't know that Yoko had written or otherwise inspired part of the text.
This really hits different in 2020.
(Sorry I had to say it.)
Good job! Loved your comments. 👍🏽❤️
Nice Video!
Another fine video, thanks! Just an afterthought, there is an album I love that most couldn't care less about, but you might appreciate. 10cc, Sheet Music.
A true genius who did it for World Peace !!!
Great video, you need more subs
Interesting- I just relearned this song this week. Great minds, eh? Thank you!
Very important fact. Listen to Let It Be ( fly on the wall) 2nd cd. You can definitely hear John start out Jealous Guy , and you can also hear piano intro for Imagine.
This song is simply about wanting world peace
why is that so hard to understand?
I always thought it was about flat earth
Then why Lennon said it was based off the communist manifesto?
It's communism. Communism isn't world peace, it's hell and death. Why is that so hard to understand?
@@basanistes359 i always thought of it as a song about world peace. And interpreted the lyrics as kind of having a zen meaning. That was until someone told me that it was about communism. Communism or socialism is a nice idea on paper maybe but when put into practice has had horrifying results. Its never worked and will never work. Don't understand why rich/ and or naive people are always so stuck on it.
“‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.”
John Lennon
“I’ve always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. It’s pretty basic when you’re brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere. I mean, it’s just a basic working-class thing.”
Also John Lennon.
good vid
The best version of Imagine is by Train. You showed CeeLo Greens version from December 31, 2011 for new Years. Trains version was from December 31, 2012 for new years. Train is the band that did Hey Soul Sister, Drive By, Mermaid, Drops of Jupiter, Calling All Angels, Save Me San Francisco, 50 Ways To Say Goodbye, and Play That Song.
as much i love john i cant like imagine...
This is John Lennon's masterpiece.Tony
I love John's time in beatles
But this is John's best song for me...
Listen to the song Watching The Wheels by him. It’s the same chord progressions and melody.
Imagine if HollyHobs didn’t exist and I couldn’t get my Daily dose of Beatles🤭
At 12yrd old I heard Imagine and have tried to live it's message ever since. ✌💗
Thank you comrade
@@giovannirazo9490 Truth, Peace and Love.. Have a Blessed Day
Love this song!
It must be recognized as the best song ever, as it tells about everything wrong with humanity.
You should do a video on the sound of scilence
Peter Jackson’s Get Back shows a clip of John playing Imagine’s melody with completely different lyrics, which changes this history presented here
Great video! I'd love to see another "How _____ Wrote" video!
Imagine you wrote that kind of masterpiece..
Please do a video on Baby’s in Black!
The ultimate anarchist song💕
0:13 what's the song playing in the background?
Ben Shappiro loves this song.
Guys we have to help him get to 100k
What's the book in the background?
Yo amo a john lennon
RIP john Lennon
This song will be dream come true if all the people in this world can get rid of selfishness greed and anger.
With honey in the Melody, it’s sounds like Conde Lucanor book teachings of Spanish writer Don Juan Manuel of Middle Ages...
I Like How people Are Saying This is Communist Song BTW Imagine Is a Good Song
Wow this guy did his homework
Neat can we get some facts about yoko ono
Imagine there is a God and if we would have listened to him and Loved our Neighbor as we love our self's, there would be no wars, or kids without food. Just Imagine if you truly loved one another.
Probably the best song of the history, but i don't like that the people hate Yoko, because she was a big influence to John's songs.
As much as i respect and love John as one of the greatest musicians that ever lived, i don't look up to him as a person the same way that i do for Paul. John screamed about Peace but the way he treated both his wives and first son show him to be a hypocrite. It's sad but it's the truth.
Sadly his life was cut short, as he was getting into the 1980's he was becoming a lot more friendly, so i reckon he would have gotten closer to his first family, but history says no and now he seems to be a massive hypocrite :(
I completely agree. Sometimes I feel sorry for John, he was messed up. Brilliant and talented, but many demons as well...
As for the song Imagine, it is a beautiful pipe dream. If we had no possessions we would all be naked, and die from the elements.
Musa Bhatti “both his wives” are you talking about the wife beating rumor? if so, it’s not true because both of wives said that he never beat them. and yeah I’m aware that he cheated on Cynthia, but Yoko herself said that John never hurt her
All this peace movement was staged by yoko. He was brainwashed by her and she just wanted to her name out there. he is guilty for being weak and inconsiderate but also suffered from major PTSD which should give him some slack. As far as beating his wife is awful it has some goodness that he admitted it himself, he also was a bad dad to Julian but he tried his best for Shaun which i consider to be some recuperation for poor upbringing of Julian. Also when Cynthia got pregnant he married her and took care of her, if he was a douche he could leave her as hi was on verge of being really famous.
Just listening to "The wheels go round and round" lets me know he had made great progress, in coming to understand his true self. So sad he never really got to show us that person.
BAND ON THE RUN NEXT!!!!!
Aussie Talks no 😂
sort of ironic Phil Spector worked on a song about love and peace
Cmon man, you gotta let us know when the next low fi song is coming out
Celebrities cover a song that is about freedom and liberty not about a deadly virus.
Beatles For Sale facts?
Nice job. Did you know Ben Sharpio hates this song even the chords. What does this song so tick off this idealistic song to the conservative? I have no idea.
Because on the whole right wingers are incapable of creating art. There are a few exceptions but they tend to be more eccentric than wedded to a political philosophy
@@marknewbold2583 Maybe reality is the issue. If you had no possessions you would be naked and die from the elements. If you are going to suggest that society would provide for you, then you would have possessions.
They say the song was written because John wants to top Yesterday
John Lennon is the Beatles.
I think it was called imagine because It can never really happen I like the perfect circle cover as well as the original
No heaven/religion = no hope/eternity.
No possessions = poverty
No countries = stone age
What if heaven is on earth? With no religions and countries there would be no wars, and with no possesions everyone would share everything, and everyone would be equally happy. A world of peace, where everyone shares. May not work in the real world, but Lennon is only asking you to _imagine_ ...
@@Magst3r1 No religion would mean no fear of God. So people can be as bad as they want to be. You would still have war because Atheists/Communists have killed more people than any religion. A world with no possessions would be boring. No music, no cars, movies, TV, games, no air conditioning, We would live a boring life like the animals, and steal food from each other, and kill each other.
@@McLovin_2007 Is your fear of god really the only thing keeping you from killing and raping?
@@Magst3r1 If I were an Atheist, I would still be Pro-Life, and not a rapist, but I'm not sure what I would being doing today. I might be doing something I wouldn't be proud of, just like it was before I came to God. Before committing my life to God, I just did whatever I wanted, no matter how dishonest or mean spirited.
@@McLovin_2007 The song is literally how Joseph Stalin thought he killed Christians, he made it the USSR one country and he made people have nothing not even food!!
I'M CRUCIFIED AND INSPECTED AND RESURRECTED AND WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO
AND IF YOU DONT BELIEVE THAT ILL SHOW YOU MY LATEST PHILANTHROPIC SONATA
GHDRGHWAAAAA WOOOOOOO
and the landlord's family was amazed!
"celeb" version, I was imagining the best way to avoid ever hearing it again...not even by osmosis will it come into my sphere.
😃
i will still always prefer 'working class hero' but i understand why this one is more famous
is that a swarmandal behind you ?
"My God can beat up your God!"
I attend and am part of the nondenominational Christian church. The pastor that is very. "We are not a religion," most followers of Jesus in my area and have finally read and me too the radical love of Jesus. We pray to see others like Jesus. It is hard but so needed. One of the millennial age preacher that has a great education and in a more affluent area of my state does have a church witb$$ that has changed to Loving and giving to all.
But, one sermon he states Imagine as actually a song that is an atheist song. I'm 55 and new the beautiful song but thought, I don't think so.. I listened more I intently and realized that this song was written about the generation Jon lived in and saw at the time. Well, as a Christian, I read a post yesterday from an atheist quoting Mark Twain.. It
can be summed up like what is so sad the world at large in different time eras felt. I was born in 1967.. I lived thru many years of the Luke 16 version that was preached to scare u into being saved because of what we call hell fire damnation sermons. There is a hell in the Bible and truth that it is where Satan ends up.. Non believers too or now the church I am involved in says an eternity without God. So Jon saw a lot and the 60's and Vietnam and the messages of religion given out at many were probably the Jonathan Edward's type.. The Angry God one...So sadly if too many heard all this and saw the destruction then not to mention racism by the so called Bible belt south and plus some had very bad personal things too death in families, We had drugs then too.. So praying to see others like Jesus, I see this now. What to do now, is to know truth and share in in a gentle way to help those believe....Oh that is a Bible Verse too.. Apparently the old time shouting preachers and some today did too
Imagine not writing a song that makes angry, obscene and scathing remarks aimed at your former Beatles bandmate and songwriting partner, Paul McCartney.
yeah, it's way easier to love the whole world not the man who's loved you all his life, and not to be able to find a couple of warm words for the woman who was always there for you and
I am usually in agreement with your opinions on The Beatles music and still agree with the technical parts but I couldn’t disagree more with most of the opinions about this song. This song is in perfection with the Bible! As a Christian, I do agree with everything he wrote here! Including the “no religion” part! “Religion” is political and partisan! The Gosple isn’t about the man made division invented by people to put forth their own opinions! The Bible is about TRUTH, pure and simple! It doesn’t matter what we “believe” or how sincere we are in that belief! People all over the world and throughout history have had sincere belief but they were sincerely wrong because it wasn’t based in TRITH!
Just my opinion. Agree or disagree. It really doesn’t matter.
Yoo
Now everyone thinks it’s communist
Commie song :)
I really don’t care it’s on my top 5
He got what he wanted. Degenerative society, no boarders, do what thou wilt, one world government, one world religion.
why did he move to new york ?
"The Communist Party manifesto in a three minute pop song.." to paraphrase John Lennon.
I prefer 'Instant Karma' from the same period.