Cover of Imagine

John Lennon

Imagine

1971 Pop Rock
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Tracklist

  1. A1 ImagineOno 2:59
  2. A2 Crippled Inside 3:43
  3. A3 Jealous Guy 4:10
  4. A4 It’s So Hard 2:22
  5. A5 I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier 6:01
  6. B1 Give Me Some Truth 3:11
  7. B2 Oh My LoveOno 2:40
  8. B3 How Do You Sleep? 5:29
  9. B4 How? 3:37
  10. B5 Oh Yoko! 4:18

Musicians

Production

Also credited

Also credited. Engineer (Ascot Sound Studos): Eddie Beer, Eddie Klein, Eddy Offord, Phil McDonald. Engineer (Record Plant): Jack Douglas, Roy Cicala, Shelly Yakus. Lacquer Cut By: George Peckham, Porky. Other (Food): Val & Diana. Other (John & Yoko’s P. A.): Dan Richter. Other (This & That At Record Plant): Tom & Alene, Al Steckler. Other (This & That): Mal Evans & Peter Bendry. Typography: George Maciunas.

Release notes

Issued on custom Apple labels in a laminated sleeve with printed inner, poster and postcard.
Inner sleeve has credits in a spiral, with artist photos; flipside has lyrics in a ‘starburst’ style, printed black on non-punched, unlined white paper. “Patent No.1,125,555 Made In Great Britain”.

1st Press with Pinched Spine Cover. Pinched covers have bigger letters on spine than other covers. Artist name “john lennon” measures 17 mm on the pinched ones and about 13,5 mm on the others.

The inner sleeve & label titles this release “Imagine: John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band (With The Flux Fiddlers*)”
*Most likely the ensemble of strings arranged by Torrie Zito

All songs published by Northern Songs. NCB
B2* joint copyright claimed by Ono Music Ltd. (* written 1968)

Inner sleeve credits “the j & p duo” on track B5.

A5 is titled “I Don’t Want To Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Want To Die” on wallet.
B1 is titled “Gimme Some Truth” on wallet.

Alan White appears courtesy of Wizard Records Ltd.

Ascot Studios was Lennon’s studio at his UK home, Tittenhurst Park.

Printer’s name printed inside cover. Not readable because cover is glued.
Runouts are stamped, except for the parts “PORKY” and “PECKO” which are etched. Most runouts have a stamper at 3 o’clock and a mother at 9 o’clock.

“(John) Tout played piano on two tracks (“Crippled Inside” and “How Do You Sleep?”) of John Lennon’s album Imagine, but he is incorrectly credited as playing acoustic guitar.” (https://www.beatlesbookstore.com/john-tout-of-renaissance-ted-turner-of-wishbone-ash-on-the-imagine-lp-plus-john-barhams-beatles-lennon-harrison-association/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=the-last-newsletter-total-posts-from-the-beatles-bookstore_2)

Ringo Ringo Starr, 1973 Shares John Lennon, Klaus Voormann, George Harrison and 2 more All Things Must Pass George Harrison, 1970 Shares Klaus Voormann, Alan White, George Harrison and 3 more Nilsson Schmilsson Nilsson, 1971 Shares Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner, Jim Gordon Singles Collection✱ The London Years The Rolling Stones, 1989 Shares John Lennon, Nicky Hopkins, Phil Spector Revolver The Beatles, 1966 Shares John Lennon, George Harrison Double Fantasy John Lennon & Yoko Ono, 1980 Shares John Lennon, Yoko Ono, John Lennon & Yoko Ono Anthology 1 The Beatles, 1995 Shares John Lennon, George Harrison Anthology 2 The Beatles, 1996 Shares John Lennon, George Harrison

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