"How?" is from John Lennon DVD and 1971 second solo album Imagine. The Beatles founder was inspired by the Primal Therapy he was undergoing with Yoko Ono at the time and asked many personal questions such as "How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"
John Lennon rehearses "How?" vocal track in the recording studio with famed producer Phil Spector.
How? personnel John Lennon – vocals, piano Nicky Hopkins – piano Klaus Voormann – bass John Barham – vibraphone Andy Davis – acoustic guitar Alan White – drums The Flux Fiddlers – strings
Give Peace A Chance was live at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Toronto Bed-In 1969 as a protest statement to the Vietnam War.
From RollingStone.com: When John Lennon was working on his second solo album, he wrote “Imagine” at his white grand piano in his bedroom at his Tittenhurst Park estate, as his wife, Yoko Ono, looked on. When he cut it in the studio, it would also feature bass, drums and a string arrangement, co-produced with Phil Spector. A more spartan demo of the song featuring simply his voice and his 88 keys will make its debut on Imagine: the Ultimate Collection, an upcoming box-set anthology of the onetime Beatle’s celebrated Imagine album, due out October 5, 2018.
An audio engineer found the “Imagine” demo by sheer luck in a box in the Lennon family archives in early 2016. “There’s a one-inch, eight-track [reel] that says nothing more on the Ascot Sound label than John Lennon, the date, and the engineer, Phil McDonald, with ‘demo’ on the spine,” engineer Rob Stevens said in a statement. “No indication of what material was on the tape. One delicate transfer to digital later, the ‘Imagine’ demo, subsequently enhanced superbly by Paul Hicks, appears within this comprehensive set. It was true serendipity.”
Imagine: The Ultimate Collection offers an in-depth look at the album with demos, outtakes, studio banter and “elemental” mixes that play up certain musical flourishes in the songs across four CDs and tw