John Lennon Imagine
John Lennon Imagine
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one...
Released in 1971
Approx 570mm at the longest edge
We have 3 options in our John Lennon collection. Hang single or group – mix and match with some from our Beatles collection
I’m sure everyone who was alive on the 8th of December 1980 can remember where they were when they heard John was cut down too soon outside his Dakota Building apartment at Central park West. There is a remembrance garden there called Strawberry Fields and I visited there around 25 years ago
The best way to remember Lennon – put on some tunes, sit back, relax and listen under the watchful eye of the man himself from your wall with one of our Lennon pieces.
I could write forever about John’s achievements but here are a few highlights –
He was born as John Winston Lennon in Liverpool, where he 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. Lennon began to record as a solo artist before the band's break-up in April 1970; two of those songs were "Give Peace a Chance" and "Instant Karma!" Lennon subsequently produced albums that included John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as "Working Class Hero", "Imagine" and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". After he married Yoko Ono in 1969, he added "Ono" as one of his middle names. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the album Double Fantasy.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved from London to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.
Lennon's solo album sales in the United States have exceeded 14 million units. He had 25 number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart as a writer, co-writer, or performer. 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 posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Lennon was twice posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and again in 1994 as a solo artist.
