“Why now, after all these years? - I had always said, that the only time I would ever consider singing ‘IMAGINE’ would be if it was the ‘End of the World’ …” Lennon said. The camera slowly swings around them as Lennon sings the antiwar anthem. In a video of the performance, Lennon and a guitarist sit in a room illuminated by candles. “So today, for the first time ever, I publicly performed my Dad’s song, IMAGINE.” “As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most significant way I could,” Lennon tweeted. Julian Lennon, the son of the late Beatles star turned solo artist John Lennon, publicly performed his father’s hit song “Imagine” last week for the first time. But he changed his mind when Putin attacked Ukraine. The backstory is that Julian Lennon (John’s son and the inspiration for the Beatles’ song “Hey Jude”) said he’d never perform his father’s song. Its plea for harmony, secularism, and, I suppose, income redistribution, constitute the reasons for Gary Abernathy’s objection to the song, detailed in an essay in the Washington Post. John Lennon’s 1971 song “ Imagine” has become a sort of anthem for humanists, and is without doubt Lennon’s most famous solo composition and performance.
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