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It is just the last few seconds of the song, but I think it will put a smile on your face
http://spiritbath.com/2015/01/12/guy-played-john-lennons-imagine-window-paris-crowd-response-gave-chills/
lame54
(35,294 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,415 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)"a sensation of coldness resulting from a cold or damp environment, or from a sudden emotional reaction"
Sometimes accompanied by gooseflesh. (Goosebumps)
It can be a fear response, but it can also be hopeful or optimistic.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Thanks for posting it.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)It's a tradition to have someone sing it as part of the cadre of midnight songs in Times Square. Cee-Lo (don't get me started) Green did it and the "and no religion too" part was changed. I was SO relieved this year when it went back to what it intended to say.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Sign the mona lisa with a spray can, call it art... jack.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)H2O Man
(73,559 posts)Recommended.
1bigdude
(91 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)just Imagine.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)but didn't see this!
I'm a dual national (French/American) and I can't tell you how proud I am of my fellow French citizens--men, women, and children, old and young, all races, all religions, all political persuasions. THEY CAME OUT TO DEFEND THEIR BELOVED "REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE". VIVE LA FRANCE ! VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE !
Think about it. Can you "IMAGINE" an comparable American demonstration applauding and singing along to the Marseillaise, for example?
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....when John Lennon was murdered. At the time I lived 9 blocks north of the Dakota on CPW. There were vigils outside his building (I didn't go to any) and they announced there would be a "memorial gathering" at the band shell in Central Park.
When I got down there, I saw thousands of people standing there unbelievably quiet. On the stage of the band shell was a single chair with a boombox and a photograph of John Lennon. After a few minutes someone started the tape, it was "Imagine". It was something I'll never forget.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,660 posts)Glad to K&R for PEACE!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Hari Seldon
(154 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)"If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religionnot without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thingthen it can be true..."
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)A world with no fighting, no insane secret societies who undermine community and human spirit
A world led by compassion, wisdom, individual and social balance
A world organized by people of sanity and generosity
A world of encouragement of positive creativity
A world of kindness, gentleness, respect for all
A world of goodness, calm and happiness
A world of free spirit tempered by a healthy sense of responsibility
A world of love, care and joy
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)arikara
(5,562 posts)vlyons
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(34,648 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)Or "Imagine" either.
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Moments of hope and unity abide.
ybbor
(1,554 posts)In Paris they used it to come together after their heinous attack.
In the U.S., Clear Channel banned it from being played on their stations after 9-11.
Once again the French show they are just a bunch of surrendering pansies.
bobGandolf
(871 posts)... it is not the people, it is the leaders who are the problem.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)which is not an unusual response on my part.
madokie
(51,076 posts)best song sung.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I don't agree but then I liked quite a few of the songs that got on that worst songs list.
A six hundred plus post thread doesn't happen very often there, people have strong opinions about music and they are all over the place.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/01/08/till-the-stars-fall-from-the-sky-for-you-and-i/
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)okaawhatever
It is wierd - this is one of the few songes I allmoust get to cry when I listen to it - and it happend all the time - Im not sure why - but I have allways been shocked up by this song...
Diclotican
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)Beatles fan, all the way. John Lennon, great human being lost too soon.
greiner3
(5,214 posts)However, with a prostrate the size of a small city, I'd have to pull a port a potty around with me;
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 14, 2015, 12:18 AM - Edit history (1)
This one's been giving me chills lately:
A hit for weeks in 1970 in Europe, Canada, Australia and the US , inspired by Woodstock, the event that propelled the artist from being an unknown to becoming a star.
Edit to add: I had a Senior Moment. Also: The Edwin Hawkins Singers gave the cut its own urgency and depth.
We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each others wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace
So accurately describes the feeling of being in a crowd, full of the wounds from war, knowing all the people pressing around you share the pain...but also the hope.
It was such a sad, angry time, but this song was a comfort.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Where did the time go?
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)but I turned weeks into years up above
so I'm doing my part to slow things down...make 'em last
Time does fly. Now must edit...
ThingsGottaChange
(1,200 posts)You made me cry. I still miss him so much. This song is so appropriate for so many reasons. I love you, John.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Grand
Warpy
(111,277 posts)Knowing the words to the song makes it pretty obvious.
I think Lennon would be pleased to have that song be his legacy.