Put your political message across with a little honey.” Lennon spoke, “Now I understand what you have to do. Comedian Dick Gregory gave Lennon a book of positive prayer which also was used as inspiration for the song’s lyrics.Ī cleverly sugar coated anti-establishment message is carried by peaceful C major piano so that it could be widely accepted in society. Dig a hole in your garden to put them in”.

The anthem’s lyrics were heavily inspired by poems from Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit and her conceptual artwork, titled ‘ Cloud Piece’ that read: “Imagine the clouds dripping. One morning in early 1971, Lennon took to his iconic white spray-painted Steinway Piano in the comforts of his own bedroom in Ascot, UK, and almost completed ‘Imagine’ in just one session. We can’t be silent.”Īn iconic plea for peace first heard almost half a century ago, ‘Imagine’ is just as relevant now as it was back then. Never thought in my songwriting life I will be doing something like this. Hemi Moore wrote on his Instagram: “Not gonna lie to you writing this track has been one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. “The fact that we are in 2020 and we are still protesting for the same thing that some of our grandparents were fighting for puzzles me,” Moore has said. Born out of complete necessity – the track calls to question why racism is tangled into the very fabric of our society. “When is it all going to end?”, cries Hemi Moore in his Rag’n’Bone Man-style powerful and punchy cry for justice. Distributed through Spinnup, all sales of the single are donated to anti-racism charities that support Black Lives Matter.

The track was created in Moore’s bedroom via a Zoom call with producers Dominic James and Brookfield. ‘When?’ was written and recorded in just under two weeks, following the death of George Floyd. During his teen years spent in Southend-on-Sea, he quickly fell in love with the piano and making music, with a vision to share his craft with others. Levert Kelvin Kachingwe, (otherwise known as Hemi Moore), moved to the UK from Zimbabwe at the age of 13, in search of a better life.

We want to honour those artists and their revolutionary tracks, explore how they came to be, and give you some inspiration on how you can turn mayhem into music. Over the ages people have looked to musicians to take the frankly sh*t situations the world can sometimes throw at us and turn it into art. You have a voice and you have the power to change the world.Īt Spinnup, we encourage you to channel your frustrations and passions in your music. Music becomes a thunderous instrument that brings us joy whilst educating and uniting us. Silence is simply not an option when it comes to standing up for our rights – whether it’s fighting racism, poverty, politics or oppression. As we’ve said before, when times get tough, creators create.

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