Special Collector’s Editions of 'Imagine John Yoko'

Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, IMAGINE JOHN YOKO is the definitive inside story – told in revelatory detail – of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the artworks, the film, the documentary and the people who were there.

This landmark publication is packed with exclusive, hitherto-unpublished archive photos and footage sequences of all the key players in situ, together with lyric sheets, Yoko’s art installations, and exclusive new insights and personal testimonies from Yoko and over forty of the musicians, engineers, staff, celebrities, artists and photographers who were there – including Julian Lennon, Klaus Voormann, Alan White, Jim Keltner, David Bailey, Dick Cavett and Sir Michael Parkinson.

‘A lot has been written about the creation of the song, the album and the film of Imagine, mainly by people who weren’t there, so I’m very pleased and grateful that now, for the first time, so many of the participants have kindly given their time to “gimme some truth” in their own words and pictures.’ Yoko Ono Lennon, 2018

In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant in New York. The lyrics of the title track were inspired by Yoko Ono’s ‘event scores’ in her 1964 book Grapefruit, and she was officially co-credited as writer in June 2017.

IMAGINE JOHN YOKO tells the story of John & Yoko’s life, work and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports readers to home and working environments, showcasing Yoko’s closely guarded archive of photos and artefacts, using artfully compiled narrative film stills, and featuring digitally rendered maps, floorplans and panoramas that recreate the interiors in evocative detail. John & Yoko introduce each chapter and song; Yoko also provides invaluable additional commentary and a preface.

All the minutiae is examined: the locations, the key players, the music and lyrics, the production techniques and artworks – including the creative process behind the double exposure polaroids used on the album cover.

Beautifully packaged in a luxurious hardback format, IMAGINE JOHN YOKO will be published on 25 October 2018, as a long-overdue and fitting tribute to one of the most important songs, albums and creative collaborations of the 20th century.

Limited to 2000 copies worldwide, the expanded Collector’s Edition includes a hand-numbered and officially stamped giclée print.

• An expanded copy of IMAGINE JOHN YOKO, slipcased and bound in real cloth, with an additional 176 pages.

• Over 150 new illustrations, including more artworks from the This Is Not Here exhibition, further new insights and personal testimonies, an entirely new chapter devoted to the singles from the period, and six almost 1 metre-long gatefolds of panoramas stitched together from rare film outtakes.

• A clothbound portfolio case containing a hand-numbered and officially stamped giclée print reproduced on acid-free Olin Regular High White 300gsm woodfree paper, using archival pigment inks.

• The print, exclusive to this edition, is of an unused photographic proof of the Imagine album artwork by Yoko Ono.

• Limited to 2000 copies worldwide, plus 10 copies retained by the artist, inscribed i-x.

Limited to only 300 copies worldwide the extra-special Signed Collector’s Edition includes, in addition to the expanded book and clothbound portfolio case, a bookplate signed by Yoko Ono and a hand-numbered, officially stamped giclée print.

• Hand-numbered bookplate signed by Yoko Ono.

• An expanded copy of IMAGINE JOHN YOKO, slipcased and bound in real cloth, with an additional 176 pages.

• Over 150 new illustrations, including more artworks from the This Is Not Here exhibition, further new insights and personal testimonies, an entirely new chapter devoted to the singles from the period, and six almost 1 metre-long gatefolds of panoramas stitched together from rare film outtakes.

• A clothbound portfolio case containing a hand-numbered and officially stamped giclée print reproduced on acid-free Olin Regular High White 300gsm woodfree paper, using archival pigment inks.

• The print, exclusive to this edition, is of an unused photographic proof of the Imagine album artwork by Yoko Ono.

• Limited to 300 copies worldwide, plus 10 copies retained by the artist, inscribed i-x.