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John Lennon performs onstage at the Chrysler Arena
on December 10, 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
©Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

It was the 1940s. A little Japanese girl, fair skin, dark, compact the dreams of a child who has become an adult, giving them a
hair, writes a small poem on a school desk. The bombings of the world-wide importance; a poem destined for history, because
Second World War disturb her childhood dreams, toys no longer there is no one in the world who, recognizing it from the very first
shine under the gunpowder in a Tokyo hut bunker. She dreams of a notes, is not moved.
life in the Western countries, without placing particular hopes in a Imagine is not just a song to be listened to with one’s eyes closed,
specific place but imagining one where there is no room for human it is a photograph of life passing by, of the wounded, of those who
aggression and war. do not let themselves be contaminated by the confusion of dark
That child is Yoko Ono and she does not yet know that she times. It is the anthem of the silent pacifist revolution. Released
would write one of the most famous pages of history ever. at a time marked by the Vietnam conflict and hardened by the
Cold War, Imagine is considered a hymn to brotherhood between
Imagine there’s no heaven human beings, composed with the essence and Franciscan poetry
It’s easy if you try of essential notes.
No hell below us The original video clip is set in the English countryside where
Above us, only sky the song was composed. Light filters through the trees and the
fog slowly disappears, as the brightness of hope emerges. But we
It’s 1971: the legendary Beatles have been split up for a year could be at any latitude. An all-white house bears only the phrase
and John Lennon digs up memories of his life partner while sitting “This is not here”: John Lennon plays the white grand piano he had
at a Steinway piano. A poem destined for eternity, which interprets given his wife Yoko Ono that same year, for her birthday.

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