Imagination were a three piece British soul and dance band, who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They had chart hits in twenty eight countries, earning four platinum discs, nine gold discs and over a dozen silver discs around the world between 1981 and 1983. Formed in 1981, the trio took a demo tape of a track called "Body Talk" to producers Jolley & Swain.
It was released as a single in April 1981 under the group name Imagination, a name that the group chose as a tribute to John Lennon. The track reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1981, selling 250,000 copies in the UK and spending eighteen weeks in the Top 50. They had two more hit singles that year, "In and Out of Love" (September) and "Flashback" (November), both of which peaked at number 16, all from their debut album, also called Body Talk.
Band members
* Leee John born John Lesley McGregor, 23 June 1957, Hackney, London, of St Lucian descent. He was educated in New York, later studying drama at the Anna Scher Theatre School. He was working as a backing vocalist for The Delfonics, Chairmen of the Board, The Velvelettes and The Elgins when he met ...
* Ashley Ingram, a guitarist/bassist, born 27 November 1960, Northampton. John and Ingram formed a songwriting partnership, resolving to start their own 'slinky, sexy and erotic' group, working in a short-lived band called Fizzz. Whilst auditioning for another short-lived band, Midnight Express, they met.
* Errol Kennedy, born 9 June 1953; a drummer born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and learned to drum in the Boys' Brigade and Air Training Corps.
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