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Record producer and broadcaster Tris Penna reviews the finest album releases by the solo Fab Four. Today Tris features John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.

The partnership of John and Yoko becomes the new Lennon and McCartney with a call to worldwide action - the ballads and passionate rock on Imagine mirrored their own lives - peace and love and whirlwind of attention around them, not forgetting work in and around their Ascot home and studio, all achieved at the speed of light. This will all be illustrated through archive from John and Yoko and those around them, with brand new, specially recorded comment and analysis from Beatles engineer Ken Scott, Marianne Faithfull, Annie Nightingale, producers Tony Visconti and Peter Asher.

John & Yoko were reinventing the modern world through art and music. Trevor Horn will tell us how Phil Spector's production techniques broke new ground. Bishi Battacharya (who worked with Yoko at Meltdown) comments on Yoko the artist and how she helped shaped John’s life and career post Beatles. Peter Brown was mentioned in The Ballad Of John and Yoko and he pays a beautiful tribute from his New York home close to the Lennon family residence.

John said it was the happiest he’d ever been because of Yoko and that Imagine was the other side of the mirror to Working Class Hero. Find out why.