Imagination feat. Leee John - 40 Years (2023) {17CD Box Set}
Artist: Imagination, Leee John
Title: 40 Years
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Edsel Records – EDSL0114
Genre: Boogie, Disco, Soul, Funk
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 18:23:55
Total Size: 2.20 / 6.00 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: 40 Years
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Edsel Records – EDSL0114
Genre: Boogie, Disco, Soul, Funk
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 18:23:55
Total Size: 2.20 / 6.00 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Imagination - Body Talk (6:01)
2. Imagination - So Good, So Right (6:58)
3. Imagination - Burnin' Up (4:46)
4. Imagination - Tell Me Do You Want My Love (5:27)
5. Imagination - Flashback (4:30)
6. Imagination - I'll Always Love You (But Don't Look Back) (3:55)
7. Imagination - In And Out Of Love (5:31)
1. Imagination - In The Heat Of The Night (5:14)
2. Imagination - Heart 'N Soul (4:45)
3. Imagination - Music And Lights (5:21)
4. Imagination - All Night Loving (4:18)
5. Imagination - Just An Illusion (6:27)
6. Imagination - All I Want To Know (4:49)
7. Imagination - One More Love (5:18)
8. Imagination - Changes (5:48)
1. Imagination - Flashback (4:52)
2. Imagination - Just An Illusion (6:39)
3. Imagination - Music And Lights (5:36)
4. Imagination - So Good, So Right (4:35)
5. Imagination - Body Talk (4:47)
6. Imagination - Heart 'N' Soul (4:10)
7. Imagination - Changes (6:29)
8. Imagination - Burnin' Up (4:50)
1. Imagination - New Dimension (7:26)
2. Imagination - State Of Love (4:58)
3. Imagination - Point Of No Return (5:12)
4. Imagination - When I See The Fire (4:37)
5. Imagination - Shoo Be Doo Da Dabba Doobee (6:29)
6. Imagination - Wrong In Love (4:56)
7. Imagination - Looking At Midnight (5:55)
8. Imagination - The Need To Be Free (4:58)
1. magination - Last Days Of Summer (4:12)
2. Imagination - Body And Soul (4:11)
3. Imagination - One Heart (3:15)
4. Imagination - You've Got The Lovin' (4:41)
5. Imagination - Found My Girl (3:53)
6. Imagination - Blue Day Gone (4:41)
7. Imagination - Sunshine (3:19)
8. Imagination - Breathless (3:11)
9. Imagination - Thank You My Love (3:31)
10. Imagination - Rock Me Slow (Leee John) (4:01)
11. Imagination - I'm Coming To Get You (4:54)
12. Imagination - Trilogy (3:52)
1. Imagination - I Know What Love Is (4:50)
2. Imagination - Hold Me In Your Arms (5:38)
3. Imagination - Paranoia (5:51)
4. Imagination - Where Are You Now (4:35)
5. Imagination - The Last Time (6:04)
6. Imagination - For Members Only (4:45)
7. Imagination - Touch (Part One) (4:09)
8. Imagination - Instinctual (5:53)
9. Imagination - Who (Tell Me Who) (4:11)
10. Imagination - Operator (4:38)
11. Imagination - Over (3:55)
12. Imagination - Hot Nights (3:48)
13. Imagination - Skin Time (5:43)
14. Imagination - Closer (5:41)
1. Imagination - Changes (5:18)
2. Imagination - Burning Up (4:50)
3. Imagination - Just An Illusion (5:53)
4. Imagination - Body Talk (7:16)
5. Imagination - L.T.O. (Love's Taking Over) (6:25)
6. Imagination - In And Out Of Love (4:36)
7. Imagination - Instinctual (7:31)
8. Imagination - So Good, So Right (4:39)
9. Imagination - Flashback (4:06)
10. Imagination - Music And Lights (5:02)
11. Imagination - Give Into Love (6:51)
12. Imagination - In The Heat Of The Night (5:12)
13. Imagination - Megamix (Edited Version) (5:13)
1. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Work (5:27)
2. Imagination Featuring Leee John - I Like It (3:58)
3. Imagination Featuring Leee John - The Best Of My Life (3:54)
4. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Ooh Ahh (4:26)
5. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Loving Tight (4:25)
6. Imagination Featuring Leee John - The Fascination Of The Physical (12'' Version) (6:20)
7. Imagination Featuring Leee John - The Night We Loved (5:56)
8. Imagination Featuring Leee John - I Can't Wait (4:32)
9. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Private Hearts (4:45)
10. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Call On Me (4:58)
1. Leee John - Sensuality (4:28)
2. Leee John - Now Is The Time (5:01)
3. Leee John - The Thin Line (5:05)
4. Leee John - Embraceable You (3:53)
5. Leee John - Feel My Spirit (4:08)
6. Leee John - Someone To Watch Over Me (4:13)
7. Leee John - Jazzamatazz (6:09)
8. Leee John - Flamingo Blue (3:46)
9. Leee John - U Never Know (4:46)
10. Leee John - Small World (4:38)
11. Leee John - Strange Fruit (5:56)
12. Leee John - Jazzamatazz (Funk Version) (4:45)
13. Leee John - Now Is The Time (C'est Le Moment) (4:58)
1. Leee John Of Imagination - Leee John Medley By Symix (16:54)
2. Leee John Of Imagination - Just An Illusion (21st Century Mix) (3:44)
3. Leee John Of Imagination - Just An Illusion (Dero's Mix) (3:26)
4. The Morne - I Can C 4 Miles (6:49)
5. Leee John Of Imagination - Everybody Wakeup (Soul Version) (5:35)
6. Leee John Of Imagination - Slippin' Slowly (5:39)
7. Leee John Of Imagination - Mind, Body And Soul (Funk Version) (4:50)
8. Leee John Of Imagination Featuring Eddy - Come On Over (4:38)
9. Leee John Of Imagination - Fool In Love (4:55)
10. Leee John Of Imagination - Alone Again (4:33)
11. Leee John Of Imagination Featuring Rick Bailey Of Delegation - Groove Thing (4:39)
1. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Utopia (7:16)
2. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Secrets (4:55)
3. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Fantasia (5:33)
4. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Solitude (5:23)
5. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Do It Right Now (3:48)
6. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Hello Goodbye (4:01)
7. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Tell Her Love Has Felt The Need (5:03)
8. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Highway To Hell (2:51)
9. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Brighter Day (5:03)
10. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Make Your Mind Up (4:31)
11. Imagination Featuring Leee John - The Best I Could (5:03)
12. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Visions (5:33)
13. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Just An Illusion (3:43)
14. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Krash (All Night Long) (3:14)
15. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Police And Thieves (4:26)
16. Imagination Featuring Leee John - The Truth (Alternative Version) (5:39)
1. Imagination - Instinctual (Dave Morales Mix Edit) (3:58)
2. Imagination - For Members Only (7'' Mix) (5:00)
3. Imagination - I Know What Love Is (7'' Version) (3:57)
4. Imagination - The Last Time (Special DJ Edit Of The Cool Sax Remix) (4:22)
5. Imagination - (Wanna Get) Over (LP With Horns) (3:52)
6. Imagination - Instinctual (Dave Morales - Def Vocal Mix) (7:42)
7. Imagination - Who (Tell Me Who) (A-Side With Solo) (5:40)
8. Imagination - The Last Time (The Long Cool Mix) (8:11)
1. Imagination - For Members Only (12'' Mix) (6:57)
2. Imagination - Hold Me In Your Arms (12'' Master) (5:42)
3. Imagination - I Know What Love Is (The Philadelphia After Dark Mix) (7:25)
4. Imagination - Instinctual (Def Groove Mix) (6:09)
5. Imagination - One Day I Found Me (6:05)
6. Imagination - Paranoia (12'' Mix) (8:19)
7. Imagination - The Last Time (The Cool Sax Remix) (7:32)
8. Imagination - Instinctual (Dave Morales Mix-Stink Mix) (5:40)
1. Imagination - The Key (Only You) (6:26)
2. Leee John & Adam Pendse - Give Into Love (Dub Version) (7:38)
3. Imagination - Fly (3:18)
4. Imagination - In The Heat Of The Night (Alt Version) (5:17)
5. Leee John & Sinitta - Changing Times (5:13)
6. Imagination - Gyration (2:49)
7. Leee John - Casualty (3:16)
8. Leee John - Daydreamer (4:41)
9. Leee John - Two Of A Kind (3:28)
10. Leee John - Keep A Lite (4:08)
11. Leee John - Make Your Mind Up (Original Version Demo) (5:40)
12. Leee John - Are You Ready (3:32)
13. Leee John Ft Ezzy - Ay Ay (Version 1) (3:53)
14. Leee John - Best Of My Love (3:50)
15. Leee John - Cherish (4:41)
16. Leee John - Turn It Out (3:39)
17. Leee John - When Love Calls (5:10)
1. Imagination - New Dimension (Alternative Chorus ''in A Man's World'' (3:10)
2. Imagination - Looking At Midnight (Alternative Mix) (7:16)
3. Imagination - Heart ' N' Soul (Alternative Vocal Version Mix) (5:19)
4. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Passion (Original Leee John Vocal) (3:34)
5. Imagination Featuring Leee John And Mourad - Passion (English-French Version) (3:36)
6. Imagination Featuring Leee John And Mourad - Passsion (Deevious Mix By Dee Vaz) (English-French Version) (3:41)
7. Imagination Featuring Leee John And Mourad - Passion (Tefa French Rap - English-French Version) (4:08)
8. Leee John - Too Late (4:42)
9. Imagination - Notorious (Original Demo Became 'wrong In Love' From Scandalous) (5:01)
10. Imagination - Happiness (Original Demo Which Became 'one More Love' On 'the Heat Of The Night' Album) (4:02)
11. Imagination - Going Round In Circles (Demo) (3:19)
12. Imagination - Halfway To Paradise (Demo Which Became 'so Good So Right' From Body Talk) (4:33)
13. Leee John - Stop Look & Listen (3:22)
14. Leee John - Some People (3:12)
1. Imagination - Tell Me Do You Want My Love (Live Circa 1984) (4:45)
2. Imagination - Found My Girl (Live Leeds 1985) (3:41)
3. Imagination - Shoo Be Doo Da Dabba Doobee (Live Circa UK 1985) (5:04)
4. Imagination - Thank You My Love (Live Circa UK 1986) (6:52)
5. Imagination - Heart 'N' Soul (Live Leeds Circa 1986) (3:51)
6. Imagination - We Turn The World Pt 1-Pt 2) (Live In Leningrad Russia Circa 1989-90) (5:58)
7. Imagination - In And Out Of Love - Reggae (Live Russia 1989-90) (10:52)
8. Imagination - L.T.O. (Love's Takin' Over) (Live Russia) (6:03)
9. Imagination - Body Talk (Live Russia) (22:04)
10. Imagination - Instinctual (Live Russia) (4:02)
11. Imagination - Slippin' Slowly (Live Circa UK 1999) (4:20)
1. Imagination - New Dimension (U.S. Remix Edit) (5:24)
2. Imagination - State Of Love (5:57)
3. Imagination - Body And Soul (6:10)
4. Imagination - Thank You My Love (4:29)
5. Imagination - Last Days Of Summer (6:21)
6. Imagination - Changes (Dimitri From Paris Is Nighdubbin' Remix) (8:05)
7. Leee John - The Best Of My Life (12'' Re-Edit) (7:14)
8. Nelson Leeroy Ft. Leee John Of Imagination - No More Lies (4:35)
9. Imagination Featuring Leee John - Do It Right Now (Victor Simonelli Remix) (6:04)
10. Leee John - Burnin' Up (New Vocal Extended Mix) (6:54)
11. Leee John Of Imagination Feat. Jorge Vercillo - Solitude (Brother Nick Remix Main 12'') (6:26)
After discreetly having pre-release album cuts played on the UK’s pirate jazz-funk and soul stations, Imagination, with their charismatic lead singer, Leee John, burst onto the scene in May 1981, when their debut single ‘Body Talk’ entered the UK Charts at #68, with it peaking at #4 on 18th July 1981, having gained momentum after their momentous and unforgettable debut performance on BBC One’s Top Of The Pops on 4th June 1981.
In the period 1981-1983, Imagination had hits in almost 30 countries around the world, with very high popularity across Europe, especially in France, Italy, Benelux and Germany, whilst also appearing in the Billboard US Dance and R&B Charts on a regular basis in the throughout the ‘80s. They really were a internationally successful British group, earning numerous Platinum, Gold and Silver discs, for hit singles ‘Flashback’, In And Out Of Love’, the much-sampled ‘Just An Illusion’ and ‘Music And Lights’, ‘New Dimension’, ‘State Of Love’, ‘Looking At Midnight’ and ‘Thank You My Love’ and albums Body Talk, In the Heat of the Night, Scandalous, Night Dubbing, Closer and Like It Is. Imagination worked with legendary producers Tony Swain / Steve Jolley, Arthur Baker, Nigel Wright, Preston Glass, Nick Martinelli and Ron ‘Have Mercy’ Kersey, and had tracks remixed by David Morales, Frankie Knuckles, Mike Pickering, Graeme Park, Victor Simonelli and Larry Levan.
40 Years is a career-encompassing retrospective of Imagination’s and Leee John’s recorded music output, with 189 tracks across 17CDs, including all of their studio albums from 1981’s Body Talk, up until 2016’s Retropia.
40 Years also features a 2-disc collection of Unreleased Trax, Mixes and Demos, a 2-disc collection of alternate and unreleased mixes from Closer in Closer Revisited, a Live Trax disc from several shows spanning the decades and a disc of extended versions in 12” Singles Selection.
40 Years was conceived and personally curated by Leee John and to celebrate the box set’s release, the initial pressing has a limited edition signed print.
In the period 1981-1983, Imagination had hits in almost 30 countries around the world, with very high popularity across Europe, especially in France, Italy, Benelux and Germany, whilst also appearing in the Billboard US Dance and R&B Charts on a regular basis in the throughout the ‘80s. They really were a internationally successful British group, earning numerous Platinum, Gold and Silver discs, for hit singles ‘Flashback’, In And Out Of Love’, the much-sampled ‘Just An Illusion’ and ‘Music And Lights’, ‘New Dimension’, ‘State Of Love’, ‘Looking At Midnight’ and ‘Thank You My Love’ and albums Body Talk, In the Heat of the Night, Scandalous, Night Dubbing, Closer and Like It Is. Imagination worked with legendary producers Tony Swain / Steve Jolley, Arthur Baker, Nigel Wright, Preston Glass, Nick Martinelli and Ron ‘Have Mercy’ Kersey, and had tracks remixed by David Morales, Frankie Knuckles, Mike Pickering, Graeme Park, Victor Simonelli and Larry Levan.
40 Years is a career-encompassing retrospective of Imagination’s and Leee John’s recorded music output, with 189 tracks across 17CDs, including all of their studio albums from 1981’s Body Talk, up until 2016’s Retropia.
40 Years also features a 2-disc collection of Unreleased Trax, Mixes and Demos, a 2-disc collection of alternate and unreleased mixes from Closer in Closer Revisited, a Live Trax disc from several shows spanning the decades and a disc of extended versions in 12” Singles Selection.
40 Years was conceived and personally curated by Leee John and to celebrate the box set’s release, the initial pressing has a limited edition signed print.
