no religion too

Neil told me about the film online about the Working Class Hero and Imagine records. I know technically it is called Plastic Ono Band but I had it at 9 years old we always called it the Working Class Hero album, everyone else called it that too. Years later in New Orleans at Daniel Lanois studio, Malcolm Burn pointed out to me, the edit in the acoustic guitar track. It’s absolutely amazing to hear an edit so clearly after you heard it so unclearly for years. .Another favourite indelible musical memory, was being so small and moving the needle to replay Well, Well, Well over and over, must be the origins of my outsider appreciation. So impressive a few years ago watching The Departed by Martin Scorsese, suddenly in the background of one scene Well, Well, Well came on and my admiration for Marty went even higher. .The big beautiful reveal of this film comes at the end, realizing the lyrics to Imagine are Yoko’s. Makes so much sense if ever one looks over her art history and the general thrust of her ambitions, which seemed to me were to encourage people to imagine things, imagine no war, imagine peace, imagine love. They even have a recording of John Lennon in an interview weeks prior to his murder saying yeah it was all Yoko, I should have credited it correctly but my ego got in the way back then but let’s be honest it was Yoko… something like that. Amazing to hear something so clearly after hearing it forever unclearly.

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