Billboard Top 40 Hits 1971: ‘#204: ‘Imagine’- John Lennon. October 23, 1971. Peaked at #3 in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘Imagine’- John Lennon
- Record Company- Apple
- Genre: Rock
- Written by John Lennon
- Time: 2:59
- B-side: ‘It’s So Hard’
- Album- Imagine
- Grade: A+
- Peaked at #3 9 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
‘Imagine’- John Lennon’s most famous post-Beatles song- hard to believe it didn’t get to #1- John Lennon had 16 Hot 100 hits as a solo artist with 13 making the Top 40- he was the last ex- Beatle to get to #1- in 1974 with ‘Whatever Gets You Thru The Night’ and his second #1 was the posthumous ‘{Just Like] Starting Over’ in 1980.
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Great song to feature. It’s been played to death over the years and has most likely made Yoko ( good lord help us) a wealthier person. I was never a Lennon fan, but did enjoy the Fabs as a group. Even in his younger years, when he hooked up with Ono, which now Sir Paul say’s that is the real reason the band dissolved, I lost respect for him because of the way he treated his son Julian. He left a huge legacy music wise.
An incomplete life- I would like to have thought had he lived he would have corrected the errors he made with Julian- but he seemed to be not one towant to rock the boat with Yoko– so who knows.
So true.
certainly a great song. I tend to think he was getting his life back in check, so probably would have mended bridges with Julian, but I wonder if he and Paul M would ever have patched it up. We’ll never know.
In retrospect not being a number one seems unim- beyond belief. a cheap pun, but the truth is such an iconic song not being such an obvious one for a number One these days seems inconceivable.)
“Imagine no possessions. I wonder if you can.” The multimillionaire Lennon, who owned several expensive properties and cars, was criticized as a hypocrite. Hard to imagine what he would get on social media these days.
it’s easy for someone to say those things- when they have everything anyone could ever want- materially.. .. I remember hearing that Lenny Bruce once said of religious leaders- ministers–that any of them who had material wealth of more than a couple suits were phonies. … or something on that order.