![]() ![]() A UK survey conducted by the Guinness World Records British Hit Singles Book named it the second best single of all time, while Rolling Stone ranked it number three in their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It earned a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song ranked number 30 on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of the 365 Songs of the Century bearing the most historical significance. BMI named "Imagine" one of the 100 most-performed songs of the 20th century. In 1985, the Central Park Conservancy memorialised a portion of the park in honour of Lennon, called Strawberry Fields, with a mosaic that reads "Imagine". The song has since sold more than 1.6 million copies in the UK it reached number one following Lennon's murder in December 1980. ![]() The photograph on the cover was taken by May Pang in 1974. Although not originally released as a single in the United Kingdom, it was released in 1975 to promote Shaved Fish, a compilation LP, and it reached number six on the chart that year. One month after the September release of the LP, Lennon released "Imagine" as a single in the United States the song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and the LP reached number one on the UK chart in November, later becoming the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album of Lennon's solo career. Recording began at Lennon's home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England, in May 1971, with final overdubs taking place at the Record Plant, in New York City, during July. Lennon and Ono co-produced the song and album of the same name with Phil Spector. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song's "lyric and content" came from his wife Yoko Ono, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit. The best-selling single of his solo career, its lyrics encourage the listener to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality and to consider the possibility that the whole of humanity would live unattached to material possessions. "Imagine" is a song co-written and performed by English musician John Lennon. ![]()
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