 John Lennon (1940–80) was born in Liverpool, England. He began playing the guitar as a teenager, and with Paul McCartney formed his first group, the Quarry Men, which would eventually become the Beatles. The band dissolved in 1970, but Lennon continued to compose and record as a solo artist as well as with his wife Yoko Ono and an ad hoc group known as the Plastic Ono Band.
This song is the title cut from Lennon's second post-Beatle album entitled Imagine. The idealistic lyrics are representative of Lennon's left-wing activism and mystical passivity. Lennon was murdered in 1980 by a mentally ill fan.
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| Memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, New York City. |
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 Tell why you agree or disagree with John Lennon's conclusions. Would having no countries result in peace? Without possessions would we share the world? Explain what you think would happen if you disagree. If you agree, explain the process of getting from the first line "Imagine…" to the last line, the result.
Write a fiction story of a time in the future when one or more of these imaginings becomes real.
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