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Titolo: [IMAGINE/John Lennon] Versione remixata l' 11 APRILE

Imagine' Album by John Lennon is Digitally Remixed and
Remastered At Abbey Road Studios in London, Set for
April 11th In-Store Date
     NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000--
   "Gimme Some Truth - The Making Of John Lennon's
`Imagine' Album" documentary film set for April release
on interactive DVD and VHS home video, following BBC2
and Bravo premieres
         Yoko Ono supervises album reissue and film
production
     "It was Ascot, England, early-summer, and we just
kind of said, `Why not, OK, let's do it,' and we
invited some friends and we had breakfast, and then
we'd just go right into the studio. So it was really
like home-cooking, and that's how Imagine was made. But
we didn't know it was going to be that big."
     - Yoko Ono, introduction to "GIMME SOME TRUTH"
     IMAGINE, the 1971 album by John Lennon and the
Plastic Ono Band which has become the subject of
renewed interest (and increasingly brisk sales
worldwide) at the dawn of the millennium, as well as
the inspiration for a highly
anticipated documentary film, has now been remixed and
remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London, supervised
by Yoko Ono, and will be reissued in a new version on
vinyl, CD and cassette by Capitol Records on March
28th.
     As we enter the 20th anniversary year of the
ex-Beatle's death, IMAGINE is still considered by many
to be the penultimate representation of John Lennon's
enormous talents as an artist, singer, songwriter,
musician, and producer. The reissue retains the album's
original track listing: "Imagine," "Crippled Inside,"
"Jealous Guy," "It's So Hard," "I Don't Wanna Be a
Soldier Mamma I Don't Wanna Die," "Gimme Some Truth,"
"Oh My Love," "How Do You Sleep?" "How?" "Oh Yoko!"
Also included is a 16 page booklet with full lyrics
(including Lennon's hand-written lyrics to "How Do You
Sleep?") and rare photographs from
the Lennon/Ono archives.
     The album release coincides with the premiere of a
revealing behind-the-scenes documentary, "GIMME SOME
TRUTH - THE MAKING OF JOHN LENNON's IMAGINE ALBUM,"
which examines the intense creative process that took
place at Lennon's home recording studio in Ascot,
England during the 1971 recording sessions. The
56-minute film, produced and directed by Andrew Solt
and executive produced by Yoko Ono, was edited from
16mm film footage shot by John and Yoko and hidden from
public view for nearly three decades. "GIMME SOME
TRUTH" will premiere on BBC2 in England (February 13)
and will be shown on
Bravo in North America April 17.
     Also on April 11, the extended 63-minute version
of "GIMME SOME TRUTH," containing seven extra minutes
of rare film footage, will be commercially issued by
Capitol Records as an interactive DVD and VHS home
video. The DVD will contain a stereo soundtrack and a
5.1. surround- sound mix plus approximately 40 minutes
of unique audio/visual interview material recorded at
the time of the album sessions. The DVD will employ
English language subtitles for all speech and songs in
the main program; will be fully chaptered for each
recording; will feature its own set of production
credits; and will contain an album discography to
enable the listener to hear a sample of one track per
album.
     The IMAGINE album was produced by John and Yoko
and Phil Spector during the series of sessions that
began in May 1971. The album was released on Apple
Records the following September, entered the Billboard
Top Lps chart September 18th, was certified RIAA gold
less than two weeks later on October 1st, and went to
#1 the week of October 30th. The single "Imagine" (not
issued as a 45
in the U.K. until 1975) debuted October 23, 1971, on
the Billboard Hot 100, where it reached #3. The album
currently stands at 2x-platinum in the U.S. The
original film entitled "Imagine," directed, produced
and performed by John and
Yoko, premiered in December 1972 and was released on
video in 1985. In 1988, a documentary film of John's
life (and an accompanying soundtrack album) entitled
"Imagine: John Lennon" was released, including Lennon
performances and nine Beatles songs.
     The essential lineup for IMAGINE in 1971, as
indicated in the credits for "GIMME SOME TRUTH,"
comprise: John Lennon on piano, guitar and vocals;
George Harrison on guitar; Nicky Hopkins on piano; Jim
Keltner on drums; Klaus Voorman on bass and guitar; and
Alan White on drums. Numerous other musicians are
listed in the album track credits, including King
Curtis on saxophone; Mike
Pinder (Moody Blues) on tambourine; Jim Gordon on
drums; Joey Molland and Tommy Evans (Badfinger) on
guitars; and of course the ubiquitous presence of Phil
Spector.
     Tempers flair yet warm humor prevails throughout
"GIMME SOME TRUTH," an essential aural and visual
experience for both the seasoned Beatles aficionado
and the casual fan. The film is a remarkable
illustration of the strength of John and Yoko's
relationship, how they inspired each other in the
studio as well as privately. It is a reminder not just
of Lennon's genius but of his playfulness, candor,
idealism and acerbic wit, at a time when he was fast
transcending our expectations of him as an artist.
Ultimately, it is a fascinating glimpse into the spirit
of two artists spearheading a whole culture,
functioning creatively in a turbulent era, as the
idealism of the late '60s was adapting to a new decade.
     The film covers a lot of ground - from priceless
demo rehearsal sessions in Ascot to a madcap bookstore
autographing session for Yoko's Grapefruit; from
John leading a peace march down city streets
brandishing a bullhorn beneath a poster for his and
Yoko's subsequent single "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" to
a confrontation at John's front door with a vagabond
hippie who is taken in and
fed; from the kitchen breakfast that started it all to
a gala party at Ascot shot by noted avant garde
independent film maker Jonas Mekas, capturing such
notables as Jack Nicholson and Andy Warhol, while John
plays basketball with Miles Davis in the driveway.
     Above all, the indomitable soul of John Lennon
soars. It is no wonder that public fascination with
"Imagine" stirred up on radio and across the Internet
throughout 1999; in England, the song was recently
voted the best lyric of all
time in a nationwide BBC poll. As far back as October
9, 1990, John's 50th birthday was celebrated with a
special simulcast of "Imagine" on more than 1000 radio
stations in over 50 countries, an initiative sponsored
by the United
Nations.
     "Imagine" is perhaps, in the mind of the public,
the song that is most closely linked to the feelings
they share for a truly remarkable artist - for many,
the greatest rock musician of the last 50 years. The
IMAGINE album and "GIMME SOME TRUTH" provide part of
the explanation why.
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Imagine' Album by John Lennon
grande album, d'accordo. Ma un po' discontinuo e non particolarmente
riuscito in alcuni momenti. Meglio, IMHO, l'album John Lennon/Plastic Ono
Band, che piu' di ogni altro mette a nudo l'anima di uno dei piu' grandi
artisti rock d'ogni tempo.
BP

Nell'album "Imagine" č contenuta anche la perfida "How do tou sleep" che
tanto fece soffrire
Paul: per rendersene conto č sufficiente leggere di Barry Miles "Paul Mc
Cartney-Many years from now"   Rizzoli 1997 alle pp. 455 e
seguenti,dove,sotto forma di intervista Paul dice la sua su diverse
questioni fra lui e John,compresa questa.
Definisco perfida questa canzone perchč come era possibile dire che Paul era
stato colto di
sorpresa da Sgt.Pepper?
Paul rispose,a modo suo,qualche anno dopo,nel 1974 -anche se il disco porta
la data 1973(e ahimč,chi se ne ricorda...)- proprio sull'album "Band on the
run" con un pezzo in stile lennoniano,
"Let me roll it",dove dichiara il suo affetto per John.
Tra l'altro,nel libro di Carr e Tyler da me citato a proposito di "Band on
the run" vengono riportate,
in relazione al 1974,dichiarazioni piuttosto distensive di John e Paul in
merito ad un possibile,magari informale,ricongiungimento. Che purtroppo non
ci fu.
Saluti,Ettore