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℗ 2023 Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group)/Lenono Music
Released | October 9, 2023 |
Duration | 1h 00m 27s |
Record Label | UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) |
Genre | Rock |
Imagine (The Ultimate Mixes / Deluxe)
John Lennon
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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Imagine (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:06 | |||
1.2
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Crippled Inside (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:51 | |||
1.3
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Jealous Guy (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
4:14 | |||
1.4
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It's So Hard (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
2:29 | |||
1.5
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I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
6:08 | |||
1.6
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Gimme Some Truth (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:18 | |||
1.7
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Oh My Love (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
2:47 | |||
1.8
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How Do You Sleep? (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
5:39 | |||
1.9
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How? (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:36 | |||
1.10
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Oh Yoko! (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
4:21 | |||
1.11
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Power To The People (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:24 | |||
1.12
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Well (Baby Please Don't Go / Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
4:08 | |||
1.13
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God Save Us (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:15 | |||
1.14
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Do The Oz (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:09 | |||
1.15
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God Save Oz (Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon |
3:27 | |||
1.16
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Happy Xmas (War Is Over / Ultimate Mix)
John Lennon; Yoko Ono |
3:35 |
Powerful, poignant, important, and beautiful are all words that describe Imagine – both the title song and the LP that was John Lennon’s second solo album release, in the autumn of 1971. One song does not make a great album, even when it is as seminal and defining as Imagine… and, make no mistake, this is a great album, full of brilliant songs, with great hooks. With John’s acerbic wit ever-present, though, the album never approaches the kind of music that John found irrelevant and meaningless.
John began work on the album that was to become Imagine a little over three months after finishing John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Recording his new album was done in three separate stages, the first between February 11 and 16, followed by another from May 24 to 28, before some final overdubs and mixing in New York over the 4th of July weekend. The earlier sessions were at Abbey Road and the May sessions were at the Lennon’s home studio at Tittenhurst Park, the New York sessions in July were at the Record Plant.
Faithfully remixed from the ground up by triple Grammy® Award winning engineer Paul Hicks at Abbey Road Studios under the supervision of Yoko Ono Lennon, using high-definition 24-96 audio transfers of the original first generation multi-track recordings, these Ultimate Mixes reveal whole new levels of sonic depth, definition and clarity.
"Yoko was very keen that these Ultimate Mixes should achieve three things – to be totally faithful and respectful to the originals, be generally sonically clearer overall and should increase the clarity of John’s vocals. ‘It’s about John’ she said. And she was right. His voice brings the biggest emotional impact to the album [...] The Imagine recordings were an absolute joy to work with. They are great songs in the hands of superb musicians who really know how to make their instruments sound sonically good and how to play collaboratively.
John & Yoko had hired very skilled and experienced sound engineers who used high quality equipment and knew how to mic and record onto tape with great expertise, so the technical quality of the recordings was also excellent. Many of those mics are so good they are still in use today."
- Paul Hicks (Engineeer)
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Studio Masters
Tracks 1-16 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-16 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.38 -0.50 to -0.30 | -12.99 -14.81 to -11.85 | -10.29 -12.40 to -9.20 | 8 7 to 10 | |
1 | Imagine (Ultimate Mix) | -0.37 | -13.15 | -10.8 | 8 |
2 | Crippled Inside (Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -13.85 | -11.3 | 9 |
3 | Jealous Guy (Ultimate Mix) | -0.30 | -13.53 | -11.0 | 8 |
4 | It's So Hard (Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -14.19 | -11.2 | 10 |
5 | I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die (Ultimate Mix) | -0.46 | -12.21 | -9.6 | 8 |
6 | Gimme Some Truth (Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -12.51 | -9.6 | 8 |
7 | Oh My Love (Ultimate Mix) | -0.50 | -14.81 | -12.4 | 9 |
8 | How Do You Sleep? (Ultimate Mix) | -0.30 | -12.22 | -9.9 | 8 |
9 | How? (Ultimate Mix) | -0.30 | -13.94 | -11.5 | 8 |
10 | Oh Yoko! (Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -11.98 | -9.5 | 7 |
11 | Power To The People (Ultimate Mix) | -0.32 | -12.38 | -9.3 | 7 |
12 | Well (Baby Please Don't Go / Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -12.83 | -10.1 | 8 |
13 | God Save Us (Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -11.85 | -9.2 | 7 |
14 | Do The Oz (Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -12.69 | -9.8 | 8 |
15 | God Save Oz (Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -12.40 | -9.3 | 8 |
16 | Happy Xmas (War Is Over / Ultimate Mix) | -0.40 | -13.27 | -10.2 | 8 |