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ebisen
Haha, cool story and pretty untypical Japanese (not trying to generalize or anything).. it takes guts to play an impromptu piece, for such a selected audience.
Speed
I'm starting to like this Hayashi guy more and more.
tokyo-star
this is the guy who is walking like a complete boss in the other Korean article... now he pwns the piano like a complete boss. starting to like the guy too!
Iron Lad
I wish he has played a japanese tune instead.
Lucinda Lohman-Oota
"Imagine" is international and is much more fitting for the occasion.
Temyong
“Imagine that there are no nations.” This song is very fitting to the occasion because these globalists world leaders want to destroy nationalism and promote globalism to usher in the one world economy, one world government, one world religion that will eventually be ruled by the AntiChri . . t.
voiceofokinawa
But they possess large swaths of land
In Okinawa I assure you
Out of greed they do
There's no brotherhood here
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
RegBilk
interesting he picked a song that promotes communism.
RegBilk
It's not too complex of a song.
RegBilk
zichiToday 03:38 pm JST
Lennon was kind of a famous person from Liverpool.
Most people are aware of the meaning of the song; it's not really a secret.
* Lennon later confirmed **that the similarities between his ideals set out in the song and Communism were indeed deliberate: “‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.”*
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-imagine-real-meaning-communism/
RegBilk
zichiToday 03:38 pm JST
Let me play it for you again:
Lennon later confirmed **that the similarities between his ideals set out in the song and Communism were indeed deliberate: “‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.”*
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-imagine-real-meaning-communism/
zichiToday 04:32 pm JST
See above.
Iron Lad
Imagine if he has played Sakura Sakura instead.
That would be nostalgic.
voiceofokinawa
Communism = diabolism = Red = anti-US sentiments. Can this equation establish itself?
voiceofokinawa
Isn't it true that on Oct. 26, 1965 the Beatles were conferred Orders of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth?
voiceofokinawa
They later returned the orders to the government in a show of protest against the escalating Vietnam War which the U.K. supported.