"Imagine" John Lennon: Vinyl LP recorded February - July 1971 Ascot Sound, Berkshire, Record Plant N Y C, Abbey Road, London. Released September 1971 USA & October 1971 UK. Producers, Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector.
Imagine has a large number of guest performers, even Spector is on vocals. The album is well written & sung no surprise there, it is well produced & recorded the production engineer was Jack Douglas.
There was at this time really bad feelings between Lennon & McCartney, hence his absence George Harrison is on multiple tracks.
Apparently Phil Spector wanted a back to Mono feel to the album & although Stereo for possibly, 'no' definitely I heard for the first time since I bought this LP in 1971. With my new Hana ML cartridge feeding into my Croft phono stage with SUT's fitted by Mark Manwaring-White. Lennon's voice on track (1) Imagine is slightly recessed/back in the center of the sound stage with instruments surrounding the voice almost Mono & Wall of Sound combined though in Stereo a totally different perspective to any previous playings of this LP thoroughly enjoyable
The rest of the album is equally like listening to the LP for the first time, a comment I have heard before but never personally encountered certainly to this extent.
