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The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 128 Lennon

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Simon Sweetman
Sep 18, 2016
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Imagine

I bought Imagine when it first came out as a single. It seemed to be perfect in its simplicity and honesty and I played it a lot – the world he described made sense to me as a schoolboy. Just piano and his vocal stripped of The Beatles and all the trappings.

He always fascinated me – his humour, his honesty, his fallibility, his genius and his fla…

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