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Just when it appeared that Secretly courted by both sides in World War I as a potential ally in the tumultuous Balkan region, Live TV. This Day In History. And no religion, too. Feelings of peace and acceptance are swirled around lyrics suggesting we abolish some of the things people hold most dear.

Even those who claim to accept the message struggle with its meaning. Since his death, Ono has been approached many times by groups who wanted to do the same thing, and she consistently refuses. Many thought it was hypocritical for a man who owned a custom-painted Rolls Royce and barely drove it to be preaching "imagine no possessions.

The second, in particular, was a big shift for someone who'd spent most of his youth as a chauvinist. He later admitted to writer David Sheff that the song had been inspired by poems from Ono's book Grapefruit , and that he should have credited the song to Lennon-Ono. In , Ono was finally given a songwriting credit. But he wouldn't have written the song without her poem and acknowledged it publicly by putting it on the back of the Imagine album cover.

The imagination, Lennon was telling us, is the most powerful tool we have. While its influence reaches across the globe, there are physical representations of it in the two places that most represented home to Lennon. Yoko's monument to her husband, in the Strawberry Fields section of Central Park, is a mosaic of the word Imagine, where fans gather to mourn him as well as to celebrate his legacy. At first listen, it's easy to think of it as a simple ballad, a song of peace and a piano-driven melody.

But the call of peace calls for the abolition of what we often cling to most fiercely. Pay based on use. Does my organisation subscribe? Group Subscription. Premium Digital access, plus: Convenient access for groups of users Integration with third party platforms and CRM systems Usage based pricing and volume discounts for multiple users Subscription management tools and usage reporting SAML-based single sign-on SSO Dedicated account and customer success teams.

Learn more and compare subscriptions content expands above. Full Terms and Conditions apply to all Subscriptions. Writing in The Observer Review today, Paul Morley, who helped compile the shortlist of songs, says: 'The chart gives us a history of pop. This list - stupid, strange, dull, freaky and exhilirating - shows up the No 1 as an eccentric thing that's related to the history of pop but sometimes only distantly. Observer readers declare Lennon's classic hit single as best of all time.