IMAGINE

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:39:25
Personnel: John Lennon (vocals, whistling, guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboards); Joey Molland, Ted Turner, Tom Evans , Rod Linton (guitar, acoustic guitar); George Harrison (guitar, slide guitar, dobro); John Tout, Joey Badfinger, Tommy Badfinger, Andy, Tommy Banfinger (acoustic guitar); King Curtis (saxophone); Nicky Hopkins (piano, electric piano, keyboards); John Barham (harmonium, keyboards, vibraphone); Alan White (vibraphone, drums, percussion); Steve Brendell (upright bass, maracas); Klaus Voormann (upright bass); Jim W. Gordon, Jim Gordon , Jim Keltner (drums); Michael Pinder (tambourine, percussion). Audio Remixer: Peter Cobbin. Recording information: Ascot Sound Studios, Ascot, Berkshire, England; Record Plant, NY; Record Plant, NY, NY. Author: Yoko Ono. Photographers: Peter Fordham; Yoko Ono. Arrangers: John Lennon; Yoko Ono. 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.