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Imagine

Directed by and starring John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and featuring famous friends and collaborators (George Harrison, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, Jack Palance), this unique, surreal reality film — composed to music from Lennon’s “Imagine” LP and Ono’s “Fly” — from 1972 features a different visual treatment for every song and follows the couple during recording sessions in the U.K. and New York.

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Gimme Some Truth
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
Gimme Some Truth
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko

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‘Plastic Ono with Chocolate Coating’

“Humans always tend to talk about rubbish, because they don’t really want to face the reality.” John Lennon offers this thought to a journalist in a scene from the 2000 documentary “Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine.” And the music on the 1971 album whose sessions are chronicled in the film certainly backs up his words — “Imagine” is the most complete and complex record in Lennon’s catalog, an expression of his greatest strengths as a singer and songwriter, and a triumph of reality, with all its contradictions, over rubbish.

1 Min Read | Alan Light
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In the Studio for the ‘Imagine’ Sessions

What was it like to be in a recording studio the size of a cozy living room while John Lennon and Yoko Ono were making the “Imagine” album with producer Phil Spector? Bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White were not only eyewitnesses to the sessions at the couple’s Tittenhurst estate in the English countryside during 1971, they were key participants.

1 Min Read | Greg Kot
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John Lennon Reinvents Himself

In 1969-72, John Lennon remade his life and career, as he transitioned out of the Beatles into a solo career and married Yoko Ono. Three films on The Coda Collection document this crucial era in the legendary artist’s journey: “24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko,” “Imagine” and “Gimme Some Truth.”

1 Min Read | Greg Kot

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