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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 peace.
 
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 be as one.

Imagine no possessions,
  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 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.

JOHN LENNON:"Imagine - John Lennon ~ Music From The Motion Picture" UK 2-LP SET, 15th OCTOBER,1988.


MATT, TEXTURED BLACK & SILVER UNBOXED PARLOPHONE LABEL: PCSP 7222.

MAITRIX RECORD 1: PCSP 7222  A - 1 - 1 - 2  /  PCSP 7222  B - 1 - 1 - 1
MAITRIX RECORD 2: PCSP 7222  C - 1 - 1 - 1  / PCSP 7222  D - 1 - 1 -  (1 crossed out)  2
A very first pressing, but only one pressing was made due to poor sales, there has never been another vinyl version ever since.


TWO INDIVIDUAL CARDBOARD INNER SLEEVES PER RECORD, WITH COMPREHENSIVE TRACK DETAILS.
  One side has a repeating pattern of the front cover's self portrait in silver and white, in blue printing, "Imagine" becomes a
part of the pattern. Track listing and full details with dates, production and recording personell feature on the reverse sides.
With as perfect storage over a period of 30 years allows, there are no splits, tears and positively no creases, even any natural
fractional ageing is so minimal they are virtually like new, just very gentle record impressions.
BOTH WHITE CARD INNER SLEEVES ARE IN UNAGED MINT- CONDITION.


A BEAUTIFUL GATEFOLD COVER, STILL A NEAR PURE WHITE WITHOUT ANY WEAR TO THE GLOSSY COATING, STANDING
IN STORAGE TRAITS ARE ONLY SHOWING THE LIGHTEST POSSIBLE PRESSURE ON THE EXTREMITIES.
THE PRINTER WAS UNCREDITED BUT THE BACK BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER IS EXACTLY HOW 'Garrod & Lofthouse' SET
OUT ENCODED DETAILS;

Sleeve Printed in England
Manufactured In England*
SP8810MCS

*Within the jumble of the digits and letters on the bottom line is the printing date, '8810', so this was made in the same month
as the album was released, October, 1988.  "Imagine & "Jealous Guy" was issued as a single in a picture sleeve and a 7" picture
disc, the full size 12" artwork looks superb with John Lennon's colour self portrait painting against the white  background and
the splendid shiny silver "Imagine" lettering.  His large scale signature is under that in black and the front cover alone is ripe
for framing, a cover I am certain John would have approved of.   The back has a central black and white picture of him from the
  early 1963 Beatles era, also the track listing and film details, a joint venture between England's EMI and USA's Capitol Records.
  The cover was perfectly stored in 1988 in a plastic outer sleeve and never used, superb condition with near perfect, edges, spine
   and corners, just the merest standing pressure on the corners, all to add is the inevitable record impression but no ring wear to
  the glossy top surface or the printing.  The colours are really vivid and the white background is a dazzling, unyellowed colour.
As usual, a few edge lines naturally form, I always include that but even a pair of unplayed / unremoved records cannot defy the
  laws of gravity.  Inside the gatefold is a fantastic collage of eleven John Lennon or John & Yoko pictures that span his lifetime
from a young boy to his final days.  Bottom right of the left panel and printed in blue, are the most important lyrics ever written
  by John or any other artist in the 20th century and so far, in the 21st century, the film and album's song theme, "Imagine."
AN UNUSED GATEFOLD COVER, THE HARSHEST GRADING IS NEAR MINT CONDITION.


FOR THE RECORD'S UNPLAYED STATUS, I ONLY NEED TO REFER TO THE LABEL PICTURES, THE CENTRE HOLES HAVE
SUCH DELICATE FLAKES OF VINYL RESIDUE FROM THE 1988 PRESSING, NO WAY COULD ANYONE PLACE THEM ON
  A SPINDLE WITHOUT DISTURBING AND REMOVING THEM.   'FOR THE RECORD', BOTH HAVE ULTRA GLOSSY AS NEW
VINYL WITHOUT A SOLITARY STYLUS, ANY FACTORY HANDLING TRACES ARE FEATHER LIGHT TO NEAR INVISIBLE. 
Constantly producing top condition vinyl means I get fed up having to constantly quote how handling occurred at pressing plants
  and record shops before anyone bought them.  Often the metal stamping discs left seam lines and had small lines that appeared on
every copy pressed by an individual stamper, vinyl is in fact an imprint of metal discs but nobody wants to acknowledge or accept
that.  Label centres are like car's speedometer and if you check my pictures you will see time frozen in the centre holes, around
them the paper also acts alike a lorry's tachometer, the textured matt black Parlophone labels are the most sensitive of them all.
All the 1960's Decca records have that positive metal disc imprint in a kind of spoke like pattern on records still mint, with wear
that disappeared, there is nothing on this pair of records that was not there in EMI's pressing plant.
BOTH RECORDS ARE IN UNPLAYED MINT CONDITION.

RECORD 1~ ORIGINAL BEATLES RECORDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH JOHN
SIDE 1
"Real Love" (Rare & exclusive release if John's original solo demo, recorded October, 1979.)
"Twist And Shout"
"Help!"
"In My Life"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
  "A Day In The Life"  (First ever issue with a 'clean' intro of just John's acoustic guitar.)

RECORD 1, SIDE 2
"Revolution"
"Julia"
"Don't Let Me Down" (The very first issue on an album, previously the "Get Back" single B-Side.)
"Give Peace A Chance" (Plastic Ono Band)


RECORD 2 ~ SOLO TRACKS
SIDE 3
"How"
  "Imagine" (Exclusive rehearsal version From the film)
   "God"
"Mother"(Live version, recorded in 1972.)
   "Stand By Me"

  RECORD 2, SIDE 3
  "Jealous Guy"
  "Woman"
"Beautiful Boy"
"Imagine"

I feel like I have finished the description after my 'roaming' text moved into areas I normally cover now, with the above tracks'
true greatness and unplayed records, there will not be a great deal to add to that anyway. In America, Capitol Records version of
"Imagine John Lennon - Music From The Motion Picture," saw the double album selling in huge amounts, the film had John Lennon's
  voice to narrate over the archive film, that combined with the images, was strengthened by such a degree by the music, the film
simply blew you clean away in the cinema.  Available today on a DVD, do make sure you have a copy to watch!  The music listed
  above was so powerful because it combined John's most potent Beatles associated tracks with his his most emotive and stunning
solo recordings.  A really lethal mixture being aired for the first time on a double album, created one of the most overwhelming,
overpowering pair of records ever released, add in the exclusive material and you have the reasons the USA album sold so well,
it was awarded 'gold' status.  Here the slow sales saw the album struggling into the Top 75, only managing to reach No.64, even
the rarity of an unreleased John Lennon song performed as a demo, failed to ignite interest.That really was a poor placement with
sales also being mostly taken up by the CD version that included all the tracks on the double vinyl version, personally I bought
the vinyl, CD and the video, plus the singles and the picture disc!  Along with the CD and vinyl catalogue numbers, the back top
corner of the gatefold cover also has the cassette version's catalogue number, in 1988 vinyl now represented a small proportion
  of the figures charts were based on. So a rare album if not with a battered, wrecked cover, torn and split inner sleeves with the
records scratched to the core, this was one of the most playable albums released in the 1980's decades.  In 1976 EMI responded
  to George Harrison leaving EMI / Apple to form the Warner distributed 'Dark Horse' label, to eat into the publicity and sales of
  his "Thirty Three & A Third" launching the new label in that November, EMI compiled "The Best Of George Harrison." One side had
  George's Beatles related tracks and the other his pre-1976 Apple tracks, great tracks all of them, but the circumstances here in
  1988, could not be any more different.  For a start, the previously unheard and unreleased demo of "Real Love" was fated to be
  one of the most important John Lennon demo's since he strummed the chords on an acoustic guitar to "Strawberry Fields Forever."
  Nobody knew it in 1988, "Real Love" was recorded and released one year after "Free As A Bird" and like that single, "Real Love"
  made it to No.4 in the UK charts.  "Real Love" became the very last new released single to bear the legendary name "The Beatles,"
   making the song as historically important as their 1962 debut,"Love Me Do."  John Lennon's superb home recorded demo would be
  overdubbed with a full Beatles instrumental and vocal  backing from the then remaining three. On reflection it was only possible
  then with the sad death of George in 2002, that could never be repeated again now.  John recorded the song sitting at his piano in
  his New York Dakota home in 1979, only a year before he was shot after returning to making records, the first time  since 1974.
  The finished sound of the record was remarkable, the song was perfect to achieve a true 'Beatles sound,' George stunning lead
  guitar was as vital as it had been throughout the 1960's, giving a distinctive sound instantly evoking the Beatles magic.  I am
  emphasing "Real Love" as a song, the version released on "Imagine John Lennon" remained unique even in March, 1996 when the
  last Beatles single was released, because an alternate demo or version was used for overdubbing onto.  "Real Love" and their
  previous project, "Free As A Bird" single, were a direct result of "Anthology "re-uniting the the other three for two of John's
  unfinished songs, "Real Love" was indeed a perfect and stunning song to to re-create the music that had single handedly changed
  popular music.
   
  This is certainly not just about an exclusive opening track, "Imagine John Lennon - Music From The Motion Picture" was such an
  important film and double album soundtrack, the two records contained John's most loved Beatles tracks on Record 1.  His finest
  solo recordings were on on Record 2, both Parlophone and Apple material, the album was released on Parlophone and not Apple.
  The original 1967 "Sgt. Pepper" album version of "A Day In The Life" had an overlapped beginning, directly starting during the
   ending of the reprise or the album's second version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", 'performing live' to an audience.
    In 1988, Abbey Road studio saw EMI's sound engineer's working on the Master Tape to create what is known in the music business
   as a 'clean intro'.  For the very first time on "Imagine John Lennon," you could hear only John's gentle acoustic guitar playing
  that spine tingling intro to "A Day In The Life," this was not tampering with the Master's because mixing & cross fading created
   an 'unclean intro', in other words you hear it exactly as performed in 1967.  A version EMI / Apple/Capitol have been using ever
   since on CD compilations like the Beatles 'Blue Album' or the '1967 - 1970"  double album.  Record No.2 features a unique solo
    rehearsal version of "Imagine," piano and vocals only, as performed to the listening musicians and Phil Spector who would next
  play on the version heard on the same titled 1971 album, naturally the finished version was chosen to end this 'album of albums'.
   For someone who was finished writing, I seem to have covered a fair bit and as I could continue this for every track, I will finish
   the description mentioning the the magnificent "Imagine."
    {Roy}


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