JOHN LENNON Imagine APPLE EAS 80705 (Japan) Wide OBI BEATLES w/ POSTER NM/NM
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JOHN LENNON Imagine
Used Japanese Import Vinyl Record
Sleeve/Vinyl: NM/NM
Record Label: Apple EAS 80705 (Japan)
1977 (Originally Released in 1971). Japanese Import. High Quality Pure Virgin Vinyl. Part of the "100 Years Of Recorded Sound 1877-1977" series. Wide OBI. Fold Out Poster. Custom label and Inner Sleeve.
Condition: Record jacket still in it's original, opened shrink-wrap. There is a small price sticker on front. Corners are sharp and unbent. Spine, top and bottom are solid and free of chipping or splits. There are no spindle marks on the label. Vinyl is clean, shiny and plays like new.
Side One
1. Imagine
2. Crippled Inside
3. Jealous Guy
4.It's So Hard
5. I Don't Want To Be A Soldier
Side Two
6. Give Me Some Truth
7. Oh My Love
8. How Do You Sleep
9. How?
10. Oh Yoko!
Review: Considered together, IMAGINE and its startling predecessor, PLASTIC ONO BAND, paint a vivid picture of the state of John Lennon immediately post-Beatles. If PLASTIC ONO BAND found John working out his hitherto repressed feelings about childhood and stardom, then the abiding impression of IMAGINE is John's one certainty in this storm of doubts and recrimination: his love for Yoko.
"Jealous Guy," with its peerless vocal and a spot-on arrangement for strings, is sublime. "Oh My Love" is all delicacy and melodiousness. "Oh Yoko!" is a celebratory finale with none of the cloying self-obsession of John and Yoko's home movies. On two other songs where Yoko is not the dominant theme, she is nevertheless invoked through the "oh no, oh no" refrain. That's not to say that love songs predominate. Half of the material covers similar terrain to PLASTIC ONO BAND, but the themes are balanced by hope and even light-heartedness. "Crippled Inside" is leavened by its country stylings including Dobro, courtesy of George Harrison, who also spices up two of the album's pivotal tracks, "Gimme Some Truth" and "How Do You Sleep?" (the latter is a vitriolic attack on Paul McCartney).
Outside of PLASTIC ONO BAND, this may be Lennon's finest solo album.
Japanese vinyl releases are premium quality pressings, much sought after by audiophiles and collectors alike. In the 1960s Toshiba pioneered top quality red vinyl pressings using their trademark ‘Ever-Clean’ process this utilized a special ingredient intended to prevent the build-up of static electricity on the vinyl. Japanese pressings are synonymous with quality - the vinyl shines like no other vinyl - everything about their releases feels special.
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