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Quinton Aaron
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Quinton Aaron
Born
(1984-08-15) August 15, 1984 (age 33)[1][2][3]
The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Residence
Tampa, Florida, U.S[4]
Occupation
Actor
Years active
2006–present
Height
6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Website
www.quintonaaron.org
Quinton Aaron (born August 15, 1984)[1][2][3] is an American actor. He made his film debut in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind. His first lead role was as Michael Oher in the 2009 film The Blind Side. In 2010, Aaron guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2015, Aaron shot the film Busy Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[5]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links
Early life[edit]
Aaron was born in The Bronx, New York City, but moved to Augusta, Georgia after elementary school.[6]
Career[edit]
Aaron made his film debut as Q in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, starring Mos Def and Jack Black.[7] He has also appeared in Fighting with Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard and co-starred in an NYU thesis short film called Mr. Brooklyn with Al Thompson (Liberty Kid, A Walk to Remember), directed by Jason Sokoloff.
Aaron has appeared in two episodes of the TV show Law & Order (Season 17, episode "Bling" as a bodyguard and episode "Fallout" as a bouncer).[8]
His first lead role was playing Michael Oher, alongside Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw in The Blind Side, released November 20, 2009. Directed by John Lee Hancock, the film was adapted from Michael Lewis's 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, which features Oher's real-life story. Oher had started in ten games as a guard during his first season with the Ole Miss Rebels, becoming a first-team freshman All-American, and later an American football offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens. Aaron auditioned for the role after his mother found out about the casting call online. Chosen as a finalist, he was flown in to Los Angeles for the final audition. Unsure whether he had been successful, he reached into his pocket on his way to the door and pulled out a card, telling director John Lee Hancock that he knew that it was a long shot for him to get the part, but that he did security work and would love to provide those services should they be needed for the film. Director Hancock said that he would keep it in mind.
On March 24, 2010, Aaron guest-starred with Jill Scott in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.[9] On April 28, 2010, Quinton guest-starred in the "We All Saw This Coming" episode of Mercy. On April 4, 2011 Quinton guest-starred in the season finale of Harry's Law with his The Blind Side co-star Kathy Bates.
During the 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Aaron participated in the Taco Bell Legends and Celebrities Softball Game as a victorious American Leaguer.
In 2015, Aaron shot the film Busy Day in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[5]
Filmography[edit]
Year
Film
Role
Notes
2006 Feliz Navidad Vocalist Uncredited
2007 Law & Order Uncredited Season 17, Episodes 18 and 19
2007 I Hate Black People Bar Patron Short
2008 Be Kind Rewind Q
2008 Play or Be Played Bodyguard Television movie
2009 Mr. Brooklyn Jefferson Short
2009 The Ministers Perp Uncredited
2009 The Blind Side Michael Oher Nominated - Black Reel Award: Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated - Teen Choice Awards 2010 for Breakout Male Actor
Nominated - MTV Movie Awards 2010 for Best Breakout Star
2009 Cred Short
2010 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Damien Woods Season 11, Episode 17
2010 Mercy Season 1, Episode 20
2011 One Tree Hill Tommy Season 8, Episodes 14 and 17
2011 Harry's Law Brian Jones Season 1, Episode 12
2011 Drop Dead Diva Jacob Campbell Season 3, Episode 12
2012 Rebel Qutub Short
2013 Paranormal Movie Himself
2013 1982 Turtle
2013 Nameless Driver Short
2014 The Appearing Kenneth
2014 Left Behind Simon
2015 My Favorite Five T.I.
2015 Dancer and the Dame Louis
2016 Mothers and Daughters Dr. Hamilton
2016 Traded Silas
2016 My First Miracle Brandon
2016 Greater Coach Aaron
2016 Extraction: Genesis Blade
2016 Hero of the Underworld Tino
2016 Halfway Byron
2017 It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway Brian Calhoun
2017 Busy Day Ivan Short
2017 Lowlifes Damen
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Hollywood Actor, Quinton Aaron, Announces His 2014 Celebrity Golf Event". PR Web. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2015. The festivities will begin in Atlanta, GA on August 14th at The Bobby Jones Golf Course, where Quinton will host his annual celebrity golf invitational. The following day is Quinton’s thirtieth birthday...
^ Jump up to: a b "Quinton Aaron: August 15". BET. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b Borders, Savannah (13 August 2014). "'Blind Side' star returns to host celebrity golf tourney, parties". NeighborNewspapers.com. Retrieved 25 October 2015. a 30th birthday party for Aaron...birthday party Friday (August 15) from 6 to 10 p.m.
Jump up ^ Wittmeier, Brent (19 June 2015). "Blind Side star in town to play gentle giant in dark comedy". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 30, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
Jump up ^ Sragow, Michael (November 20, 2009). "Giant-size role for Quinton Aaron". The Baltimore Sun. lthough Aaron was born in the Bronx in 1984, his mother moved him to Augusta, Ga., after elementary school....
Jump up ^ www.highbeam.com Archived February 15, 2011, at WebCite
Jump up ^ Sragow, Michael (2009-11-20). "Giant-size role for Quinton Aaron". Archived from the original on 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
Jump up ^ "Exclusive: Jill Scott and Blind Side's Quinton Aaron Guest on SVU". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-22.
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Imagine (John Lennon song)
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"Imagine"
Single by John Lennon
from the album Imagine
B-side
"It's So Hard" (US)
"Working Class Hero" (UK)
Released
11 October 1971 (1971-10-11)
Format
7-inch
Recorded
May–July 1971
Studio
Ascot Sound Studios, Ascot
Record Plant East, New York
Genre
Soft rock
pop
Length
3:03
Label
Apple
Songwriter(s)
John Lennon
Producer(s)
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Phil Spector
John Lennon US singles chronology
"Power to the People"
(1971) "Imagine"
(1971) "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"
(1971)
John Lennon UK singles chronology
"Stand by Me"
(1975) Stand by Me1975 "Imagine"
(1975) Imagine1975 "(Just Like) Starting Over"
(1980) (Just Like) Starting Over1980
Audio
"Imagine" on YouTube
"Imagine" is a song 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.
Lennon and Yoko 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 a compilation LP and it reached number six on the chart that year. 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".[1] Shortly before his death, Lennon acknowledged Ono's role in inspiring the concept behind "Imagine"; as of June 2017, plans were underway to ensure that she receives a co-writing credit for the song.[2]
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, 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.
Contents
1 Composition and writing
2 Recording and commercial reception
3 Film and re-releases
4 Recognition and criticism
5 Notable performances and cover versions
6 Personnel
7 Charts and certifications
7.1 Weekly charts
7.1.1 Original release
7.1.2 1975 release
7.1.3 Posthumous releases
7.2 Year-end charts
7.3 Decade-end charts
7.4 All-time charts
7.5 Certification and sales
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 Bibliography
12 Further reading
13 Documentaries
14 External links
Composition and writing[edit]
Several poems from Yoko Ono's 1964 book Grapefruit inspired Lennon to write the lyrics for "Imagine"[3]—in particular, one which Capitol Records reproduced on the back cover of the original Imagine LP titled "Cloud Piece", reads: "Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in."[4] Lennon later said the composition "should be credited as a Lennon/Ono song. A lot of it—the lyric and the concept—came from Yoko, but in those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted her contribution, but it was right out of Grapefruit."[5] When asked about the song's meaning during a December 1980 interview with David Sheff for Playboy magazine, Lennon told Sheff that Dick Gregory had given Ono and him a Christian prayer book, which inspired him the concept behind "Imagine".
The concept of positive prayer ... If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion—not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing—then it can be true ... the World Church called me once and asked, "Can we use the lyrics to 'Imagine' and just change it to 'Imagine one religion'?" That showed [me] they didn't understand it at all. It would defeat the whole purpose of the song, the whole idea.[3]
"Imagine"
An excerpt from the second chorus
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With the combined influence of "Cloud Piece" and the prayer book given to him by Gregory, Lennon wrote what author John Blaney described as "a humanistic paean for the people".[5] Blaney wrote, "Lennon contends that global harmony is within our reach, but only if we reject the mechanisms of social control that restrict human potential."[6] In the opinion of Blaney, with "Imagine", Lennon attempted to raise people's awareness of their interaction with the institutions that affect their lives.[5] Rolling Stone's David Fricke commented: "[Lennon] calls for a unity and equality built upon the complete elimination of modern social order: geopolitical borders, organised religion, [and] economic class."[7]
Lennon stated: "'Imagine', which says: 'Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,' is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I'm not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement."[6] He told NME: "There is no real Communist state in the world; you must realize that. The Socialism I speak about ... [is] not the way some daft Russian might do it, or the Chinese might do it. That might suit them. Us, we should have a nice ... British Socialism."[6] Ono described the lyrical statement of "Imagine" as "just what John believed: that we are all one country, one world, one people."[8] Rolling Stone described its lyrics as "22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself".[8][nb 1] Some observers have described the song has having a distinctly anti-religious viewpoint, to the point that some have embraced it as an "atheist anthem".[10]
Lennon composed "Imagine" one morning in early 1971, on a Steinway piano, in a bedroom at his Tittenhurst Park estate in Ascot, Berkshire, England. Ono watched as he composed the melody, chord structure and almost all the lyrics, nearly completing the song in one brief writing session.[8] Described as a piano ballad[11][12] performed in the soft rock genre,[13] the song is in the key of C major.[14] Its 4-bar piano introduction begins with a C chord then moves to Cmaj7 before changing to F; the 12-bar verses also follow this chord progression, with their last 4 bars moving from Am/E to Dm and Dm/C, finishing with G, G11 then G7, before resolving back to C.[14] The 8-bar choruses progress from F to G to C, then Cmaj7 and E before ending on E7, a C chord substituted for E7 in the final bar. The 4-bar outro begins with F, then G, before resolving on C. With a duration of 3 minutes and 3 seconds and a time signature of 4/4, the song's tempo falls around 75 beats per minute.[15]
Recording and commercial reception[edit]
A 1971 Billboard advertisement for "Imagine"
Lennon and Ono co-produced the song and album with Phil Spector, who commented on the track: "We knew what we were going to do ... It was going to be John making a political statement, but a very commercial one as well ... I always thought that 'Imagine' was like the national anthem."[16] Lennon described his working arrangement with Ono and Spector: "Phil doesn't arrange or anything like that—[Ono] and Phil will just sit in the other room and shout comments like, 'Why don't you try this sound' or 'You're not playing the piano too well'... I'll get the initial idea and ... we'll just find a sound from [there]."[17]
Recording began at Ascot Sound Studios, Lennon's newly built home studio at Tittenhurst Park, in May 1971, with final overdubs taking place at the Record Plant, in New York City, during July.[17] Relaxed and patient, the sessions began during the late morning, running to just before dinner in the early evening. Lennon taught the musicians the chord progression and a working arrangement for "Imagine", rehearsing the song until he deemed the musicians ready to record.[5] In his attempt to recreate Lennon's desired sound, Spector had some early tapings feature Lennon and Nicky Hopkins playing in different octaves on one piano. He also initially attempted to record the piano part with Lennon playing the white baby grand in the couple's all-white room. However, after having deemed the room's acoustics unsuitable, Spector abandoned the idea in favour of the superior environment of Lennon's home studio.[6] They completed the session in minutes, recording three takes and choosing the second one for release.[18] The finished recording featured Lennon on piano and vocal, Klaus Voormann on bass guitar, Alan White on drums and the Flux Fiddlers on strings.[19]
Issued by Apple Records in the United States in October 1971, "Imagine" became the best-selling single of Lennon's solo career.[20] It peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100[21] and reached number one in Canada on the RPM national singles chart, remaining there for two weeks.[22][23] Upon its release the song's lyrics upset some religious groups, particularly the line: "Imagine there's no heaven".[24] When asked about the song during one of his final interviews, Lennon said he considered it to be as strong a composition as any he had written with the Beatles.[8] He described the song's meaning and explicated its commercial appeal: "Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, but because it is sugarcoated it is accepted ... Now I understand what you have to do. Put your political message across with a little honey."[25] In an open letter to Paul McCartney published in Melody Maker, Lennon said that "Imagine" was "'Working Class Hero' with sugar on it for conservatives like yourself".[26] On 30 November 1971, the Imagine LP reached number one on the UK chart.[27] It became the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album of Lennon's solo career.[28]
Film and re-releases[edit]
Lennon's Steinway piano, on which he composed "Imagine"[29]
In 1972, Lennon and Ono released an 81-minute film to accompany the Imagine album which featured footage of the couple in their home, garden and the recording studio of their Berkshire property at Tittenhurst Park as well as in New York City.[30] A full-length documentary rock video, the film's first scene features a shot of Lennon and Ono walking through a thick fog, arriving at their house as the song "Imagine" begins. Above the front door to their house is a sign that reads: "This Is Not Here", the title of Ono's then New York art show. The next scene shows Lennon sitting at a white grand piano in a dimly lit, all-white room. Ono gradually walks around opening curtains that allow in light, making the room brighter with the song's progression.[31] At the song's conclusion, Ono sits beside Lennon at the piano, and they share a quaint gaze, then a brief kiss.[32]
Several celebrities appeared in the film, including Andy Warhol, Fred Astaire, Jack Palance, Dick Cavett and George Harrison. Derided by critics as "the most expensive home movie of all time", it premiered to an American audience in 1972.[30] In 1986, Zbigniew Rybczyński made a music video for the song, and in 1987, it won both the "Silver Lion" award for Best Clip at Cannes and the Festival Award at the Rio International Film Festival.[33]
Released as a single in the United Kingdom in 1975 in conjunction with the album Shaved Fish, "Imagine" peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart. Following Lennon's murder in 1980, the single re-entered the UK chart, reaching number one, where it remained for four weeks in January 1981. "Imagine" was re-released as a single in the UK in 1988, peaking at number 45, and again in 1999, reaching number three.[34] It has sold 1,640,000 copies in the UK as of June 2013, making it Lennon's best-selling single.[35] In 1999, on National Poetry Day in the United Kingdom, the BBC announced that listeners had voted "Imagine" Britain's favourite song lyric.[24] In 2003, it reached number 33 as the B-side to a re-release of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)".[36]
Recognition and criticism[edit]
Rolling Stone described "Imagine" as Lennon's "greatest musical gift to the world", praising "the serene melody; the pillowy chord progression; [and] that beckoning, four-note [piano] figure".[8] Included in several song polls, in 1999, BMI named it one of the top 100 most-performed songs of the 20th century.[37] Also that year, it received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award[38] and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.[39] "Imagine" ranked number 23 in the list of best-selling singles of all time in the UK, in 2000.[40] In 2002, a UK survey conducted by the Guinness World Records British Hit Singles Book ranked it the second best single of all time behind Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".[41] Gold Radio ranked the song number three on its "Gold's greatest 1000 hits" list.[42]
Rolling Stone ranked "Imagine" number three on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", describing it as "an enduring hymn of solace and promise that has carried us through extreme grief, from the shock of Lennon's own death in 1980 to the unspeakable horror of September 11th. It is now impossible to imagine a world without 'Imagine', and we need it more than he ever dreamed."[8] Despite that sentiment, Clear Channel Communications (now known today as iHeartMedia) included the song on its post-9/11 "do not play" list.[43][nb 2]
On 1 January 2005, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named "Imagine" the greatest song in the past 100 years as voted by listeners on the show 50 Tracks.[45] 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.[45] Virgin Radio conducted a UK favourite song survey in December 2005, and listeners voted "Imagine" number one.[46] Australians selected it the greatest song of all time on the Nine Network's 20 to 1 countdown show on 12 September 2006. They voted it eleventh in the youth radio network Triple J's Hottest 100 Of All Time on 11 July 2009.[47]
Peace & Harmony, John Lennon Peace Monument in Liverpool, England
Jimmy Carter said, "in many countries around the world—my wife and I have visited about 125 countries—you hear John Lennon's song 'Imagine' used almost equally with national anthems."[48][nb 3] On 9 October 2010, which would have been Lennon's 70th birthday, the Liverpool Singing Choir performed "Imagine" along with other Lennon songs at the unveiling of the John Lennon Peace Monument in Chavasse Park, Liverpool, England.[50][51] Beatles producer George Martin praised Lennon's solo work, singling out the composition: "My favourite song of all was 'Imagine'".[52] Music critic Paul Du Noyer described "Imagine" as Lennon's "most revered" post-Beatles song.[53] Authors Ben Urish and Ken Bielen called it "the most subversive pop song recorded to achieve classic status".[54] Fricke commented: "'Imagine' is a subtly contentious song, Lennon's greatest combined achievement as a balladeer and agitator."[7]
Urish and Bielen criticised the song's instrumental music as overly sentimental and melodramatic, comparing it to the music of the pre-rock era and describing the vocal melody as understated.[54] According to Blaney, Lennon's lyrics describe hypothetical possibilities that offer no practical solutions; lyrics that are at times nebulous and contradictory, asking the listener to abandon political systems while encouraging one similar to communism.[6] Author Chris Ingham indicated the hypocrisy in Lennon, the millionaire rock star living in a mansion, encouraging listeners to imagine living their lives without possessions.[55] Others argue that Lennon intended the song's lyrics to inspire listeners to imagine if the world could live without possessions, not as an explicit call to give them up.[55] Blaney commented: "Lennon knew he had nothing concrete to offer, so instead he offers a dream, a concept to be built upon."[6]
Blaney considered the song to be "riddled with contradictions. Its hymn-like setting sits uncomfortably alongside its author's plea for us to envision a world without religion."[6] Urish and Bielen described Lennon's "dream world" without a heaven or hell as a call to "make the best world we can here and now, since this is all this is or will be".[54] In their opinion, "because we are asked merely to imagine—to play a 'what if' game, Lennon can escape the harshest criticisms".[54] Former Beatle Ringo Starr defended the song's lyrics during a 1981 interview with Barbara Walters, stating: "[Lennon] said 'imagine', that's all. Just imagine it."[54]
The morning after the November 2015 Paris attacks, German pianist Davide Martello brought a grand piano to the street out in front of the Bataclan, where 89 concertgoers[56] had been shot dead the night before, and performed an instrumental version to honour the victims of the attacks; video of his performance went viral.[57][58] This led Katy Waldman of Slate to ponder why "Imagine" had become so frequently performed as a response to tragedy. In addition to its general popularity, she noted its musical simplicity, its key of C major, "the plainest and least complicated key, with no sharps or flats" aside from one passage with "a plaintive major seventh chord that allows a tiny bit of E minor into the tonic". That piano part, "gentle as a rocking chair", underpins lyrics that, Waldman says, "belongs to the tradition of hymns or spirituals that visualize a glorious afterlife without prophesizing any immediate end to suffering on earth". This understanding is also compounded by the historical context of Lennon's own violent death, "remind[ing] us that the universe can run ramshod over idealistic people". Ultimately, the song "captures the fragility of our hope after a violent or destructive event ... [bu]t also reveals its tenacity".[57]
In June 2017, the National Music Publishers Association awarded "Imagine" a Centennial Song Award and recognized Lennon's desire to add Yoko Ono as a co-author of the song.[59]
Notable performances and cover versions[edit]
In December 1971, Lennon and Ono appeared at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Lennon performed "Imagine" with an acoustic guitar, yielding the earliest known live recording of the song, later included on the John Lennon Anthology (1998).[60] In 1975, he sang "Imagine" during his final public performance, a birthday celebration for Lew Grade.[54]
Elton John performed the song regularly on his world tour in 1980, including at his free concert in Central Park, a few blocks away from Lennon's apartment in The Dakota.[61] On 9 December 1980, the day after Lennon's murder, Queen performed "Imagine" as a tribute to him during their Wembley Arena show in London.[62] In 1983, David Bowie performed it in Hong Kong during his Serious Moonlight Tour, on the third anniversary of Lennon's death.[63] On 9 October 1990, more than one billion people listened to a broadcast of the song on what would have been Lennon's 50th birthday.[64] Ratau Mike Makhalemele covered the song on an EP of Lennon covers in 1990.[65] In 1991–92, Liza Minnelli performed the song in her show at Radio City Music Hall.[66] Stevie Wonder gave his rendition of the song, with the Morehouse College Glee Club, during the closing ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics as a tribute to the victims of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.[67] In 2001, Neil Young performed it during the benefit concert America: A Tribute to Heroes.[68] Madonna performed "Imagine" during the benefit Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope.[69][nb 4] Peter Gabriel performed the song during the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.[71]
Since 2005, "Imagine" has been played prior to the New Year's Eve ball drop at New York City's Times Square.[72] Beginning in 2010, the song has been performed live; first by Taio Cruz, then in 2011 by CeeLo Green and in 2012 by Train. However, Green received criticism for changing the lyric "and no religion too" to "and all religions true", resulting in an immediate backlash from fans who believed that he had disrespected Lennon's legacy by changing the lyrics of his most iconic song.[73] Green defended the change by saying it meant to represent "a world [where you] could believe what [you] wanted".[73] The event got media attention outside of the US, with Britain's The Guardian stating "Lennon's original lyrics don't praise pluralism or interchangeable religious truths – they damn them".[74]
More than 200 artists have recorded cover versions of "Imagine".[75][76] Joan Baez included it on 1972's Come from the Shadows and Diana Ross recorded a version for her 1973 album, Touch Me in the Morning.[77] In 1995, Blues Traveler recorded the song for the Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon album[78] and Dave Matthews has performed the song live with them.[77] A Perfect Circle covered the song for the album eMOTIVe, released in 2004. Dolly Parton recorded the song for her 2005 covers album Those Were the Days.[79] A cover version of the song, performed by Italian singer Marco Carta, entered the top 20 in Italy in 2009, peaking at number 13.[80] Seal, Pink, India.Arie, Jeff Beck, Konono Nº1, Oumou Sangaré and others recorded a version for Herbie Hancock's 2010 album The Imagine Project.[81]
Hancock performed it with Arie, Kristina Train and Greg Phillinganes at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Concert on 11 December. On 13 February 2011, the recording—with Pink, Seal, Malian singer Oumou Sangaré, India.Arie and Jeff Beck won a Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Collaboration.[82]
The song was performed as part of the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Performed by the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir and the Liverpool Signing Choir, the choirs sang the first verse and accompanied Lennon's original vocals during the rest of the song.[83][nb 5] A cover performed by Emeli Sandé was also used by the BBC for a closing montage that ended its coverage.[84] "Imagine" subsequently re-entered the UK Top 40, reaching number 18.[85]
In 2015, American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga performed the song at the 2015 European Games opening ceremony. The song was played for 70,000 people in Baku, Azerbaijan that served as host of the event.[86] In 2018, the song was performed at the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang (South Korea).[87]
Personnel[edit]
John Lennon – vocals, piano
Klaus Voormann – bass
Alan White – drums
The Flux Fiddlers – strings
Charts and certifications[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Original release[edit]
Chart (1971–1972)
Peak
position
Australia (Go-Set National Top 40)[88]
1
Australia (Kent Music Report)[89]
1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[90]
12
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[22]
1
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[91]
4
Germany (Official German Charts)[92]
18
Japan (Oricon)[93]
14
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[94]
6
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[95]
5
Norway (VG-lista)[96]
6
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[97]
1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[98]
5
US Billboard Hot 100[99]
3
US Easy Listening (Billboard)[99]
7
US Top Singles (Cash Box)[100]
2
US Top Singles (Record World)[101]
1
1975 release[edit]
Chart (1975)
Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[102]
1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[94]
5
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[103]
19
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[104]
6
Posthumous releases[edit]
Chart (1981)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[89]
43
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[105]
4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[90]
6
Germany (Official German Charts)[92]
7
Ireland (IRMA)[102]
1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[95]
5
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[106]
23
Norway (VG-lista)[96]
3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[98]
2
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[107]
1
Year
Chart (1986–2013)
Peak
position
1986
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks[99][nb 6]
20
1988
Ireland (IRMA)[102]
29
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[108]
45
1989
Australia (ARIA)[109]
21
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[95]
83
1990
France (SNEP)[110]
88
1994
France (SNEP)[111]
9
1999–2000
Canada (Canadian Singles Chart)[99]
10
Ireland (IRMA)[102]
3
Italy (FIMI)[112]
12
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[95]
56
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[113]
5
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[114]
3
2007
Canada (Hot Canadian Digital Singles)[99]
47
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[95]
37
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[98]
59
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[115]
75
US Billboard Hot Digital Songs[99]
47
2008
Australia (ARIA)[116]
94
2010
Australia (ARIA)[116]
85
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[105]
66
Germany (Official German Charts)[92]
94
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[113]
49
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[103]
46
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[98]
50
2012
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[113]
42
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[117]
18
2013
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[113]
44
2015
France (SNEP)[111]
11
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[95]
67
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[113]
40
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[98]
61
2016
France (SNEP)[111]
169
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1971)
Rank
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[118]
15
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[119]
67
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[120]
82
Chart (1972)
Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[121]
19
Japan (Oricon)[93]
98
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[122]
5
Chart (1981)
Rank
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[123]
86
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[124]
70
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[125]
73
Decade-end charts[edit]
Chart (1980–1989)
Rank
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[126]
25
All-time charts[edit]
Chart (1952–2013)
Rank
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[127]
19
Certification and sales[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Italy (FIMI)[128]
Platinum 50,000*
Japan (Oricon Charts)
118,000[93]
United Kingdom (BPI)[129]
Platinum 1,640,000[127]
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
See also[edit]
List of anti-war songs
List of best-selling singles in the United Kingdom
List of best-selling singles of the 1980s in the United Kingdom
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1971
List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
List of number-one singles of 1971 (Canada)
List of number-one singles of 1975 (Ireland)
List of number-one singles of 1981 (Ireland)
List of number-one hits (Italy)
List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 1980s
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ The lyrical content of "Imagine" relates to Lennon's concept of Nutopia: The Country of Peace, which he invented in 1973. Lennon included a symbolically mute anthem to this country on his album Mind Games released later that year.[9]
Jump up ^ In 1991, the BBC restricted "Imagine" from airplay during the Gulf War.[44]
Jump up ^ Yoko Ono dedicated the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland in 2007.[49]
Jump up ^ Madonna included the song in her set list during the 2004 Re-Invention World Tour and released it on the live album and DVD documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret in 2006.[70]
Jump up ^ The first adaptation of the original 8-track recording of "Imagine", Lennon also appeared in video.[83]
Jump up ^ Album track from Live in New York City.
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Jump up ^ "Italian single certifications – John Lennon – Imagine" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
Jump up ^ "British single certifications – John Lennon – Imagine". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 19 May 2016. Select singles in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Enter Imagine in the search field and then press Enter.
Bibliography[edit]
Blaney, John (2007). Lennon and McCartney: Together Alone (1st ed.). Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-906002-02-2.
Du Noyer, Paul (1971). Imagine (Media notes). John Lennon. Capitol Records.
Ingham, Chris (2009). The Rough Guide to the Beatles (3rd ed.). Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84836-525-4.
Fricke, David (2012) [2002]. "The Making of 'Imagine'". In Wenner, Jann. John Lennon: The Ultimate Guide to His Life, Music, and Legend. Rolling Stone. ISBN 7-09-893419-4.
Harry, Bill (2000). The John Lennon Encyclopedia. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0404-8.
Levy, Joe, ed. (2005). Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (First Paperback ed.). Wenner Books. ISBN 978-1-932958-61-4.
Lennon, John (1983). The John Lennon Collection. Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-0-7935-0265-3.
Roberts, David, ed. (2005). British Hit Singles & Albums (18 ed.). Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 978-1-904994-00-8.
Sheff, David (1981). Golson, G. Barry, ed. All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (2000 ed.). St Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0-312-25464-3.
Urish, Ben; Bielen, Ken (2007). The Words and Music of John Lennon. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-99180-7.
Wenner, Jann (2010) [2004]. 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. OCLC 641731526.
Further reading[edit]
Borack, John (2010). John Lennon: Life Is What Happens. Krause Publications. ISBN 978-1-4402-1391-5.
George-Warren, Holly, ed. (2001). The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (2005 revised and updated ed.). Fireside. ISBN 978-0-7432-9201-6.
Riley, Tim (2011). Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music – The Definitive Life. Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-2452-0.
Tillery, Gary (2009). The Cynical Idealist: A Spiritual Biography of John Lennon. Quest Books. ISBN 978-0-8356-0875-6.
Wenner, Jann (2000). George-Warren, Holly, ed. Lennon Remembers. Verso. ISBN 1-85984-600-9.
Documentaries[edit]
Yoko Ono, Phil Spector (Producers) (2000). Gimme Some Truth – The Making of John Lennon's "Imagine" (DVD). Capitol. ASIN B000AYELY2.
Andrew Solt (Director) (2005). Imagine: John Lennon (DVD). Warner Home Video. ASIN 6305847118. CS1 maint: ASIN uses ISBN (link)
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Imagine (John Lennon song).
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
"Imagine" (with The Flux Fiddlers) on YouTube
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1969
"Give Peace a Chance" / "Remember Love" (Ono)
"Cold Turkey" / "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" (Ono)
1970
"Instant Karma!" / "Who Has Seen the Wind?" (Ono)
"Mother" / "Why" (Ono)
1971
"Power to the People" / "Open Your Box" (Ono) (UK)
"Power to the People" / "Touch Me" (Ono) (US)
"Imagine" / "It's So Hard" (US)
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" / "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" (Ono)
1972
"Woman Is the Nigger of the World" / "Sisters O Sisters" (Ono)
1973
"Mind Games" / "Meat City"
1974
"Whatever Gets You thru the Night" / "Beef Jerky"
"#9 Dream" / "What You Got"
"Ya Ya" / "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (Germany only)
1975
"Stand by Me" / "Move Over Ms. L"
"Imagine" / "Working Class Hero" (UK)
1977
"Stand by Me" / "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" (reissue) (US)
1980
"(Just Like) Starting Over" / "Kiss Kiss Kiss" (Ono)
Posthumous
1981
"Woman" / "Beautiful Boys" (Ono)
"Watching the Wheels" / "Yes, I'm Your Angel" (Ono) (UK)
"Watching the Wheels" / "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" (US)
1982
"Love" / "Give Me Some Truth"
1984
"Nobody Told Me" / "O' Sanity" (Ono)
"Borrowed Time" / "Your Hands" (Ono)
"I'm Stepping Out" / "Sleepless Night" (Ono)
"Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" / "It's Alright" (Ono)
1985
"Jealous Guy" / "Going Down on Love"
1986
"Rock and Roll People" (promo)
1998
"I'm Losing You" (promo)
Unreleased
1972
"The Luck of the Irish" / "Attica State" (release pulled after receiving an Apple catalogue number)
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