(Thanks to Larry McGahey)

John's classic lives on

Yoko has been working diligently on several new projects for the New Millennium..and we are about to feast upon two of them.

The 1971 "Imagine" album featuring John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band has been remastered and remixed at Abbey Road Studios in London. The project was supervised by Yoko and will be reissued on vinyl, CD and cassette by Capitol Records on March 28th.

The reissue retains the album's original track listing: ``Imagine,'' ``Crippled Inside,'' ``Jealous Guy,'' ``It's So Hard,'' ``I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mamma I Don't Wanna Die,'' ``Gimme Some Truth,'' ``Oh My Love,'' ``How Do You Sleep?'' ``How?'' ``Oh Yoko!'' Also included is a 16 page booklet with full lyrics (including John's hand-written lyrics to ``How Do You Sleep?'') and rare photographs from the Lennon/Ono archives.

The album release coincides with the premiere of a 56-minute documentary, ``GIMME SOME TRUTH - THE MAKING OF JOHN LENNON's IMAGINE ALBUM.'' The documentary promises to take us behind-the-scenes of the creative process that took place at John's home recording studio in Ascot, England during the recording sessions. The film is directed by Andrew Solt and executive produced by Yoko. It was edited from 16mm film footage shot by John and Yoko and never before shown to the public.

``GIMME SOME TRUTH'' will premiere on BBC2 in England on February 13 and will be shown on Bravo in North America April 17.

Also on April 11, the extended 63-minute version of ``GIMME SOME TRUTH,'' containing seven extra minutes of rare film footage, will be commercially issued by Capitol Records as an interactive DVD and VHS home video. The DVD will contain a stereo soundtrack and a 5.1. surround-sound mix plus approximately 40 minutes of unique audio/visual interview material recorded at the time of the album sessions. The DVD will employ English language subtitles for all speech and songs in the main program; will be fully chaptered for each recording; will feature its own set of production credits; and will contain an album discography to enable the listener to hear a sample of one track per album.

The essential lineup for IMAGINE in 1971, as indicated in the credits for ``GIMME SOME TRUTH,'' comprise: John Lennon on piano, guitar and vocals; George Harrison on guitar; Nicky Hopkins on piano; Jim Keltner on drums; Klaus Voorman on bass and guitar; and Alan White on drums. Numerous other musicians are listed in the album track credits, including King Curtis on saxophone; Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) on tambourine; Jim Gordon on drums; Joey Molland and Tommy Evans (Badfinger) on guitars; and of course Phil Spector.

Get the whole story from the EMI-Capitol News Release here.