~John & Yoko~
Packed with photographs never before seen! How was the legendary album made? The miraculous nine days revealed for the first time
Specification: 320 pages
Author: John Lennon/Yoko Ono
Supervisor: Yusaku Matsumura
Translated by: Fumi Kawagishi/Momoko Iwai
The definitive inside story about the production site, artwork, music videos, documentaries, and the people involved!
The legendary album "Imagine" takes its title from the song "Imagine" by John and Yoko. The production process is told from the birth of the idea to completion, with the musicians, technicians, and staff who were present at the time sharing their completely new understandings and interpretations.
●80% of the photos are previously unpublished
- Includes various cuts from the album production
- Includes interior photos of the house and detailed floor plans
The masterpiece album Imagine was conceived in 1971 in the minds of John Lennon and Yoko Ono while they were living in a Georgian mansion called Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, England, and was recorded in a state-of-the-art studio built on the estate and at the Record Plant in New York.
The title track's lyrics were inspired by Yoko Ono's "Event Score" in her 1964 book Grapefruit, which led to her being officially credited as a co-writer of "Imagine" in 2017.
The book explores the lives, work and relationships of John and Yoko during this particularly creative period, and is packed with video sequences, Yoko's artwork, photographs she carefully kept secret, and panoramas of interiors stitched together to recreate the atmosphere of the time in minute detail, transporting the reader to their homes and workspaces.
Each chapter features a song that corresponds to it, along with quotes from John and Yoko introducing the songs. Some of these quotes are being made public for the first time, and Yoko's current comments are also included.
Many of the musicians, technicians and staff who have contributed new insightful comments to this book also appear in the "wheel" on the album's inner sleeve. The identities of the people on the inner sleeve, shrouded in mystery, are finally revealed in this book.
The locations, central characters, songs, lyrics, production techniques, artwork, and more were all explored in detail during the creation of this book, including how the double-exposure Polaroid photograph used on the album's cover was created.
This book aims to convey a message that is as timeless and relevant today as it was when the album was made, and it will cement John and Yoko's place in cultural history.