Today's Alternative News Channel - ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER, WE ARE STARTING TO ‘IMAGINE’ WHAT JOHN LENNON TRIED TO TELL US When John Lennon released the song Imagine in 1971, the public was not fully ready to embrace it. Sure, the embers of the Hippie Movement and its emphasis on peace and love were still aflame, but this song offered a lofty vision that was beyond the reach even of staunch supporters. The simple, graceful melody belied its far-reaching profundity. Today, that vision, and the future world that he imagined, is just starting to b - Lennon had said that he got the initial idea from Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit, which encourages us to “Imagine the sky crying,” or “Imagine you’re a cloud.” Still, Imagine evinces his signature militant challenge to widely-accepted conventions of our collective perception. Source: ****** See our playlist for additional information: POLITICS: ****** HEALTH NEWS: ****** TECH AND SCIENCE STUFF: ****** Today's Alternative News ****** ******