JOHN LENNON’S IMAGINE BEST VERSION EVER
Ricardo Fraguas Poole
Global PR & Communications Strategy Board Executive Advisor. SDG's ambassador. Climate emergency & sustainability communications. Journalist, author, speaker.
The poem, the song by John Lennon “Imagine”, is amongst the most covered and versioned songs in history. According to journalist and Sustainability Ambassador, Ricardo Fraguas, the special version made by the Spanish group Showpay and kindly produced and adapted for the pro human rights and for positive change radio show Emisión Cero, it is probably the best cover version ever.
“The words of the poem are so powerful and in the most simple, natural and direct way condense the posible positive reality and destiny for humanity, from love to love, that I thought it had to be the lead tune for “Emisión Cero” our radio and online show dedicated to the information and promotion of Sustainability for the positive change.” Expresses Ricardo Fraguas, presenter and creator of ”Emisión Cero” the globally and weekly casted program that, in its fifth season, continues informing about and spreading the value of the Human Rights, The United Nations, the preservation of Nature, Economic Justice and the Culture of Peace.
“Wanting it or not, we do are one human family with a common destiny” continues Ricardo Fraguas, “and more than ever, we now have the capabilities and possibility to leave as one, in peace and free, taking care of one another and taking care of Nature.”
“When in one of their private rehearsal concerts I listened to the version of “Imagine” our good friends of Showpay, Bernie, Albert and Fer were preparing, I broke in tears and immediately ask them if they would accept to record it to become the intro and flag theme of the new show I was about to produce to be aired at that time through Radio Internacional de Espa?a.”
“For the first time, a radio, TV and online show entirely dedicated to the information and promotion of the fundamental achievements of our present development as a human civilisation: the recognition of the Human Rights and the race for their universal exercise along with the protection of the ecosystem that allow life on earth as we know it.
Imagine was and it is the song and the message for it and the version created and interpreted by Showpay couldn’t be better.”
The family group Showpay very generously accepted the invitation and produced and recorded this beautiful version of imagine that you can enjoy and share here and listen every week in “Emisión Cero”.
“It is very difficult to do a good version of such a great and well known composition as it is “Imagine” but Fer, Bernie and Albert have been capable of making it even grow for better.
Emisión Cero is presented and produced by Ricardo Fraguas and now globally aired weekly through Spotify, Youtube, Google Podcasts, and the FM and AM stations of Radio Intercontinental of Spain.