Imagination at Gateshead
OVER the past three decades multi-award-winning British soul group Imagination have produced classic hits such as Body Talk, Just An illusion , Music and Lights and Changes which dominated the charts in the 1980s and created world-wide sales in excess of 30 million albums.
On Saturday, October 3, the band visits Gateshead and continues to appear in a long list of samples, remixes and adaptations by major contemporary stars. Founding member Leee John is one of the hardest working men in music, touring internationally both as Imagination and as Leee John and released the critically acclaimed jazz album Feel My Soul.
Leee is also involved in an exciting new project as one of the key singer/songwriters performing with The British Collective which brings together five of the UK’s finest ever male R&B artists, Junior Giscombe, Leee John, Omar, Don-E and Noel Mckoy.
The singer is currently producing and directing Flashback a film of the history of British black music for which more than 100 interviews are already in the can, including Beverley Knight, Eddy Grant, Trevor Nelson, Omar, Geno Washington, Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniels, Boney M's Bobby Farrell and Ruby Turner.
Lee is in the studio putting the finishing touches Imagination's album Utopia.
* Sage Gateshead with support from the talented local act SouLutions. Box Office: sagegateshead.com/event/imagination/
Viv Hardwick
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