Imagine (John Lennon song)
"Imagine" is a song co-written and performed by English musician John Lennon.
The best-selling single of his solo career, its lyrics encourage the listener to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality and to consider the possibility that the whole of humanity would live unattached to material possessions.
Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song's "lyric and content" came from his wife Yoko Ono, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit.
Lennon and Ono co-produced the song and album of the same name with Phil Spector.
Recording began at Lennon's home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England, in May 1971, with final overdubs taking place at the Record Plant, in New York City, during July.
One month after the September release of the LP, Lennon released "Imagine" as a single in the United States; the song peaked at number three on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and the LP reached number one on the UK chart in November, later becoming the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album of Lennon's solo career.
Although not originally released as a single in the United Kingdom, it was released in 1975 to promote "Shaved Fish", a compilation LP, and it reached number six on the chart that year.
The photograph on the cover was taken by May Pang in 1974.
The song has since sold more than 1.6 million copies in the UK; it reached number one following Lennon's murder in December 1980.
In 1985, the Central Park Conservancy memorialised a portion of the park in honour of Lennon, called Strawberry Fields, with a mosaic that reads "Imagine".
BMI named "Imagine" one of the 100 most-performed songs of the 20th century.
The song ranked number 30 on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of the 365 Songs of the Century bearing the most historical significance.
It earned a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
A UK survey conducted by the "Guinness World Records British Hit Singles Book" named it the second best single of all time, while "Rolling Stone" ranked it number three in their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Since 2005, event organisers have played it just before the New Year's Times Square Ball drops in New York City.
Dozens of artists have performed or recorded versions of "Imagine", including Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Joan Baez, Lady Gaga, Freddie Mercury, Elton John and Diana Ross.
Emeli Sandé recorded a cover for the BBC to use during the end credits montage at the close of the 2012 Summer Olympics coverage in August 2012.
"Imagine" subsequently re-entered the UK Top 40, reaching number 18.
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His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.
In 1969, he started the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, Yoko Ono.
After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Lennon continued as a solo artist.
Born in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager.
In 1957, he formed his first band, the Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960.
He was initially the group's de facto leader, a role gradually ceded to McCartney.
Starting in 1967, Lennon's lyrics began to espouse a pacifist message, and some of his songs were soon adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
From 1968 to 1972, he produced more than a dozen records with Ono, including a trilogy of avant-garde albums, his first solo LP "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band", and the international top 10 singles "Give Peace a ChanceInstant Karma!Imagine" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)".
Lennon was known for the rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews.
He was controversial through his political and peace activism.
After moving to New York City in 1971, his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a three-year attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him.
In 1975, Lennon disengaged from the music business to raise his infant son Sean, and in 1980, returned with the Ono collaboration "Double Fantasy".
He was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building three weeks after the album's release.
By 2018, Lennon's solo equivalent album sales had exceeded 72 million units worldwide.
In 2002, Lennon was voted eighth in a BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, and in 2008, "Rolling Stone" ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time.
In 1987, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Lennon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 1994.
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Question: What is the cause of death of composer of song Imagine (John Lennon Song)?
Answer: shot