In our 14 years together John never stopped trying to improve himself from within. We were best friends. To me, he is still alive. Death alone doesn’t extinguish a flame and a spirit like John.
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The first time I spoke to John Lennon was in September 1969. He called me on the phone and asked me to play drums with him at a live show in Toronto. I thought it was a friend playing a joke, so I hung up! #IMAGINE50 #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Power to Yoko!
Peace to Yoko!
Love to Yoko!
from John
Feb 18. 71.
JOHN AND YOKO FOREVER!
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John was a very nice, accommodating guy. I always felt he kind of took me under his wing. I was only twenty years old, a little bit naïve, and jumped in the deep end. He made me feel very comfortable; and so did Yoko. #IMAGINE50 #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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John: I think whatever love is (and it’s many, many things) it is constant. It’s been the same forever. I don’t think it’ll ever change. It’s a sort of abstract concept that comes and goes whether you like it or not. #IMAGINE50
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Yoko was always at John’s side; giving him advice and ideas to make it better. She was very much part of the whole thing. You could tell they were madly in love. #IMAGINE50 #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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John: My ultimate goal is for Yoko and I to be happy and try and make other people happy through our happiness. I’d like everyone to remember us with a smile. But, if possible, just as John & Yoko who created World Peace forever. #IMAGINE50
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Thankyou for joining our #TimsTwitterListeningParty for Imagine.
Happy BIrthday John!
Happy Birthday Sean!
I love you!
yoko
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OH MY LOVE
John: A joy to write and a joy to sing and record! Written with Yoko – based on her original lyric – we finished it very quickly one late night together, the beginning of the melody being started last year. #IMAGINE50
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John: Him and me are OK. So I don’t care what they say about that, you know? I’ve always been a little, you know, loose. And I hope it’ll change because I’m fed up of waking up in the papers. But if it doesn’t, my friends are my friends whatever way. #IMAGINE50
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HOW DO YOU SLEEP?
John: Paul personally doesn’t feel as though I insulted him or anything because I had dinner with him last week; he’s quite happy. If I can’t have a fight with my best friend I don’t know who I can have a fight with. ('72) #IMAGINE50
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How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn?
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Every day was different because he made it well for me. He knew what I was going through, being a certain race and being a woman. At home he was a very gentle person and extremely concerned about me but also concerned about the world too.
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Apple Records advert (printed in Oz magazine) for the single, ‘Power To The People’, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band c/w ‘Open Your Box’, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, 1971. #IMAGINE50
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OH, GOD SAVE OZ ONE AND ALL
OH, GOD SAVE OZ FROM DEFEAT
OH, GOD SAVE OZ FROM THE WAR
OH, GOD SAVE OZ ON THE STREET
LET US FIGHT FOR PEOPLE'S RIGHTS
LET US FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
LET US FIGHT FOR MICKEY MOUSE
LET US FIGHT FOR FREAKDOM
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Between us, we were very psychic. We knew all the time what the other was thinking, what was going to be said by the other, our responses, everything. It was sometimes unnerving.
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John: I started ‘How?’ at the same time I was doing the last album (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band) and I finished it off this time with the Middle 8. It’s just a nice ballad. ‘How?’ is George’s favourite song, I’m proud to say. The verses were written last year (1970). #IMAGINE50
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John: Love has to be nurtured like a very sensitive animal because that’s what it is. And you have to work at love. You don’t just sit round with it and it doesn’t just do it for you. You’ve got to be very careful with it. It’s the most delicate thing you can be given. #IMAGINE50
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John & Yoko on the Northern Ireland peace and Oz protest march through Marble Arch, Mayfair and Piccadilly, London, 11 August 1971. #IMAGINE50
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John: There’s a song I wrote in 1968 called ‘Oh Yoko!’ An easy come, easy go song – like whistling down the lane to meet your lover: ‘She’s mine and I’m always singing/ thinking/being/about her.’ It came naturally. We did one take and enjoyed it. #IMAGINE50
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