CONDITION:
Brand new, publisher overstock. May have light shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. If you need more than 1 copy please let me know as I often have extras on hand that are not included in the "available quantity for sale".
BOOK DETAILS:
BOOK OVERVIEW:
Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko
is the definitive inside story-told in revelatory detail-of the making
of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the
creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John &
Yoko and the people who were there.
Features 80% exclusive, hitherto-unpublished archive photos and
footage sequences of all the key players in situ, together with lyric
sheets, Yoko's art installations, and exclusive new insights and
personal testimonies from Yoko and over forty of the musicians,
engineers, staff, celebrities, artists and photographers who were
there-including Julian Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Alan White, Jim Keltner,
David Bailey, Dick Cavett and Sir Michael Parkinson.
"A lot has been written about the creation of the song, the album
and the film of Imagine, mainly by people who weren't there, so I'm very
pleased and grateful that now, for the first time, so many of the
participants have kindly given their time to 'gimme some truth' in their
own words and pictures" -Yoko Ono Lennon, 2018
In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the
critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home,
Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio
they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant in New York. The
lyrics of the title track were inspired by Yoko Ono's "event scores" in
her 1964 book Grapefruit, and she was officially co-credited as writer
in June 2017.
Imagine John Yoko tells the story of John & Yoko's life, work
and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports
readers to home and working environments showcasing Yoko's closely
guarded archive of photos and artifacts, using artfully compiled
narrative film stills, and featuring digitally rendered maps, floorplans
and panoramas that recreate the interiors in evocative detail. John
& Yoko introduce each chapter and song; Yoko also provides
invaluable additional commentary and a preface.
All the minutiae is examined: the locations, the key players, the
music and lyrics, the production techniques and the artworks-including
the creative process behind the double exposure polaroids used on the
album cover.
With a message as universal and pertinent today as it was when the
album was created, this landmark publication is a fitting tribute to
John & Yoko and their place in cultural history.