Imagine is the second album by John Lennon. Recorded and released in 1971, it tended towards songs that were gentler, more commercial and less avant-garde than those on his previous album, the critically acclaimed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. The album is considered the most popular of his works. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed Imagine as the 76th greatest album in history.
Although the basic tracks for Imagine were initially recorded at his home studio, Ascot Sound Studios in Tittenhurst Park, many of the instruments were re-recorded at the Record Plant in New York City, where strings and saxophone by King Curtis were also added. As on his last album, Phil Spector joined Lennon and Yoko Ono as co-producer on Imagine, and the ex-Beatles' mainstay, Klaus Voormann, returned on bass. Extensive footage of the sessions, showing the evolution of some of the songs, was compiled on a video documentary entitled Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine.
The first songs, "It's So Hard" and "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier, Mama, I Don't Want to Die", were recorded in February 1971 at Abbey Road Studios, during sessions for Lennon's single "Power to the People". (Other sources give the location as Ascot, however.) Musicians at the these sessions included drummer Jim Gordon, soon to be ex-Derek & The Dominos. A cover of The Olympics' 1958 song "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)", later released on John Lennon Anthology, was also recorded during this time. Lennon would choose to remake "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier", however, once the main album sessions were under way.
Track listing:
All songs by John Lennon, except where noted.
- "Imagine" - 3:01
- "Crippled Inside" - 3:47
- "Jealous Guy" - 4:14
- "It's So Hard" - 2:25
- "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier, Mama, I Don't Want to Die" - 6:05
- "Gimme Some Truth" - 3:16
- "Oh My Love" - 2:44 (Lennon−Ono)
- "How Do You Sleep?" - 5:36
- "How?" - 3:43
- "Oh Yoko!" - 4:20
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