Imagine John Lennon Deluxe Edition - The Memorable TV DVD Review

Starting in the late sixties when their relationship first became public John and Yoko were busy documenting every aspect of their lives, whether it be sound collages or home movies or the music itself, the pair wanted every one of their innermost thoughts laid bare. Now that John Lennon is no longer with us all of this material is to be eagerly savoured of course.

Imagine the movie first came out some years ago (1988) and at the time was a revelation for the amount of new material that emerged, truly mind blowing stuff but the footage that was included last time barely scratched the surface so with the space afforded by DVD's we have this stunning new 2 disc deluxe edition.
Disc one is still essentially the same documentary of John Lennon as told by his own voice and including John before and after the beatles and right up to his fatal shooting. The power of Lennon is still incredibly strong and the strongest material is from his most fertile early seventies period when he was still in England (living in his mansion Tittenhurst Estate) and making the Imagine album. Disc two is where the release really comes into its own though with a mountain of new footage including the following Tribute to John Lennon: The Man, The Music, The Memories - With Filmmakers David L. Wolper, Andrew Solt, Sam Egan, Editors Bert Lovitt and Bud

Friedgen; John Lennon: Truth Be Told - BBC Radio Interview with John and Yoko; Acoustic Imagine - Never before released performance at the Apollo Theatre, New York City, Dec 17 1971 (this is brilliant and worth buying the DVD for alone); Island House - Never before seen footage at the Lake House home of John and Yoko, Tittenhurst Estate in Ascot, England; William Ernest Pobjoy Interview - Interview with head master of Quarry Bank High School – John Lennon’s grammar school and DVD Rom feature of a John Lennon Music Guide

ANY SPECIAL FEATURES?

Heaps - see above.