Can You Imagine?

Perhaps the most beautiful and yet haunting song of the 1970’s was John Lennon’s, “Imagine.”  I first heard it in the same place I heard all music of that era, driving in my dune buggy.  What I did not know at the time was that it was inspired by a Christian prayer book Lennon had been reading.  According to a published interview, Lennon said he envisioned a peaceful world, “not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing…”  Whether you embrace Lennon’s view of utopia or not, there is no denying that the man and his composition were big on vision.