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Team or Enterprise Premium FT. Pay based on use. Does my organisation subscribe? The song's famous music video was part of an minute film to accompany the Imagine. It featured footage of the couple at their home and the recording studio of their Berkshire property at Tittenhurst Park, as well as shots taken in New York City. The famous 'Imagine' segment of the film shows Lennon sitting at his white grand piano in an all-white room.

Ono walks around opening curtains that bring in light, making the room brighter as the song plays on. At the end, Ono sits next to Lennon at the piano, and they share a friendly look and a quick kiss. In , it reached number one in Canada and number three in the US.

However, it wasn't released as a single in the UK until , where it reached number six. After Lennon's murder in , the single re-entered the UK charts, and reached number one, where it stayed for four weeks in January It was re-released as a single in the UK in , peaking at number 45, and again in , reaching number three. To date, it has sold over 1,, copies in the UK, making it Lennon's best-selling single as a solo artist.

He then returned it to the Beatles museum in Liverpool, and has since been "on tour" to various world locations promoting peace. So it will be back in the museum there soon. Even those who claim to accept the message struggle with its meaning. Since his death, Ono has been approached many times by groups who wanted to do the same thing, and she consistently refuses.

Many thought it was hypocritical for a man who owned a custom-painted Rolls Royce and barely drove it to be preaching "imagine no possessions. The second, in particular, was a big shift for someone who'd spent most of his youth as a chauvinist. He later admitted to writer David Sheff that the song had been inspired by poems from Ono's book Grapefruit , and that he should have credited the song to Lennon-Ono.

In , Ono was finally given a songwriting credit. But he wouldn't have written the song without her poem and acknowledged it publicly by putting it on the back of the Imagine album cover.

The imagination, Lennon was telling us, is the most powerful tool we have. While its influence reaches across the globe, there are physical representations of it in the two places that most represented home to Lennon.

Yoko's monument to her husband, in the Strawberry Fields section of Central Park, is a mosaic of the word Imagine, where fans gather to mourn him as well as to celebrate his legacy. At first listen, it's easy to think of it as a simple ballad, a song of peace and a piano-driven melody. But the call of peace calls for the abolition of what we often cling to most fiercely.

It's not a blueprint, with instructions on how to give up some of the parameters by which we define ourselves, but a call for us to imagine something that seems unimaginable in the world we live in. It's revolutionary without calling for literal revolution and has no less relevance in the uncertain world of today than it did in when it was written. In a world of unending conflict over exactly the things he mentions in the song, we want to imagine it too.

Happenstance brought together one of the most vivacious friendships in music history. But tension forced The Beatles bandmates apart — until they learned that they should just let it be. During an month separation from Yoko Ono, Lennon reached musical highs as well as personal lows.

The musician died on December 8, , after being shot by Mark David Chapman.