Imagine: Remembering John Lennon's Communist Anthem

Free Republic ^ | 3/12/2015 | Jan Sobieski

[Mariner]

What about Nowhere Man and Dear Prudence?

If you're going to talk about Lennon songs at least talk about the good ones.

[C19fan]

Every time Christmas season comes around how the hell did this song become a standard. The DJs and program directors never bothered to read the lyrics?

[Gay State Conservative]

“Imagine no possessions”.He was worth a billion in 1980...back when a billon was a lot of money.

[C19fan]

From what I understand Lennon was a complicated character. I heard storied about he was going to the right when he was murdered.

[Paul46360]

HATE THIS SONG!!!!
Wonder what God said to him upon arrival.."did not you see my wonder in the birth a human?
Ever wonder who ordered all things?"

[proxy_user]

Ha-ha, Mr. Wilson,
Ha-ha, Mr. Heath....

[detective]

Answer: “Imagine no possessions.”

Question: What did Yoko Ono say to Julian Lennon and Cynthia Lennon when they asked Yoko why they were getting such a tiny portion of John Lennon’s inheritance?

[Jan_Sobieski]

I quit listening after “Imagine”...and kicked myself for not stopping after “Back in the USSR”

[humblegunner]

Satan’s Minstrels suck.

I can’t even see how they play clubs anymore.

Like only two songs ever got any radio play and only for a week each.

Saw them live once and was disappointed.

[Paul46360]

We will never know now.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Beatles were far greater than the sum of their parts.None of them did anything that was worth **** after the breakup.

[GraceG]

One can imagine all the flowery crap in the song but when it comes to implement it all, you will ALWAYS end up with a tyrant on top because the power to re-distribute is the power to re-distribute to yourself and no human’s soul can survive that temptation.

[Sans-Culotte]

For a guy who wrote some great songs, Imagine was one banal POS.

[WayneS]

I've always been partial to Happiness Is a Warm Gun.

[GraceG]

[ The Beatles were far greater than the sum of their parts.None of them did anything that was worth **** after the breakup. ]

Paul McCartney did that wonderful TV show about the Myster Writer in New England that solved a Murder every week.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Don’t tell me you saw them at a gay bar?

[DesertRhino]

He also wrote “revolution”, a smackdown to the Bill Ayers idiots of the world. He performed on “Taxman” too.

[research99]

"From what I understand Lennon was a complicated character. I heard storied about he was going to the right when he was murdered."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds82Id_GMe8 Later in the telecast, he spoke with Ronald Reagan.

[Pelham]

I recently read an interview where Lennon acknowledged that this song was simple minded nonsense and he came across as having some common sense. But treating artists as serious thinkers is a fool’s errand for the most part.