John Lennon (vocals, guitar;
born October 9, 1940, died December 8, 1980 )
Imagine
there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No Hell below us Above us only
sky Imagine
all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It
isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine
all the people Living life in peac You may say 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 Imagine no possesions I wonder if you
can No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say
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 -
John Lennon's "Imagine"
Remembering
John
Lennon
Remembering
John
Lennon
John
Lennon didn't
invent rock and roll,
nor did he embody it as toweringly as figures
like Elvis Presley and Little Richard, but he did more
than anyone else to shake it up, move it forward and
instill it with a conscience. As the most daring and
outspoken of the four Beatles,
he helped shape the agenda of the Sixties - socially and politically,
no less than musically.
As a solo artist, he made music that
alternately disturbed and soothed, provoked and sought
community. As a human being,
he served as an exemplar of honesty in his art and
life.
As Jann Wenner wrote in the foreword to
a collection of writings
entitled
The Ballad of John and Yoko, "Of the many things that will be long
remembered about John Lennon -his genius
as a musician and
singer, his wit and literary swiftness, his social intuition and
leadership -among the most haunting was
the stark, unembarrassed commitment of his
life,
his work and his undernourished frame to truth,
to peace and to humanity."
