Imagination
10 articles
Audio interviews
Imagination's Leee John (1987)
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, 1987
The triple-e'd front man talks about UK v US producers; his band's theatricality and image; his hatred of Apartheid; hanging out with royalty, and finds time to peddle a selection of AIDS myths.
File format: mp3; file size: 54.2mb, interview length: 59' 13" sound quality: ***
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Interview by Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 23 January 1982
Paulo Hewitt finds the spirit of IMAGINATION ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 17 April 1982
LEEE: YOUR NAME'S Barney Rubble. How long have you been interviewing? A year? So you're young, a spring chicken?BH: Why, do I look well-seasoned? ...
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, September 1982
Suitably softened up by his workout with four year-old Twinkle, IMAGINATION'S extrovert frontman picks himself up off the floor for an interview with LESLEY WHITE ...
Imagination: The Glam Gladiators Fight Back
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 22 January 1983
AT THE BOTTOM end of London's Marylebone Road, going towards the station, you pass numerous beauty salons, the type of establishment that's emerged in many ...
Imagination: The Gospel According To John...
Profile and Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 9 June 1983
Leee John, that is, from Imagination. In the beginning he was a snowflake in a school play. Today he's the singer in Britain's biggest-selling black ...
Imagination: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 13 December 1983
THE FIRST surprise was the discovery that, although the members of Imagination may have black skins, they are not what is crudely known in the ...
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 19 January 1985
Or, great headlines revisited. PAOLO HEWITT puts IMAGINATION in his typewriter and asks — are they on the way out? ...
Imagination: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 7 June 1986
FOR ME, the high point of the set by this precision-dancing disco collective was the moment when Leee slipped off his gold lame jacket to ...
Sleeve notes by Bill Brewster, Demon Records, 2006
LOOKING AT Leee John's nether regions and his luxuriant falsetto, the phrase "all mouth and no trousers" might well have been invented to describe Imagination. ...
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