Why John Lennon's ‘Imagine’ Matters In Troubled Times: Paris and Beyond
FUSE TV - Why John Lennon's ‘Imagine’ Matters In Troubled Times: Paris and Beyond
The day after terrorist gunmen took the lives of over 80 music fans at an Eagles of Death Metal concert at Paris’ Le Bataclan, a bicyclist towing a piano pulled up in front of the theater, jumped behind the keyboard, and played John Lennon’s iconic 1971 ballad, “Imagine.”
The song is so immediately familiar to young and old that the pianist, 34-year-old German resident Davide Martello, didn’t even need to sing the words to share his message. As he played the melody, Lennon’s words likely sprang into the minds of the gathering crowd, “Imagine there’s no countries / it isn’t hard to do / nothing to kill or die for … Imagine all the people, living life in peace.”
Hours earlier, in the immediate wake of Friday’s attacks, British band Coldplay was in Los Angeles performing the same song, with Chris Martin singing those famous words.
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