Just An Illusion – Imagination (1982)

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Additional information about this, Imagination vinyl art.

Imagination – The Artist/s

Imagination were an English trio, who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They had hits in 28 countries, earning four platinum discs, nine gold discs, and more than a dozen silver discs around the world between 1981 and 1983. Singer/keyboardist Leee John (born 1957, Hackney, London) 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 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. While they were auditioning for another short-lived band, Midnight Express, they met drummer Errol Kennedy (born 1953, Montego Bay, Jamaica), who at a very young age had learned to drum in the Boys’ Brigade and Air Training Corps. Formed in early 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”, which the group chose as a tribute to John Lennon. The track reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1981, selling 250,000 copies in the UK and spending 18 weeks in the Top 50. They had two more hit singles that year, “In and Out of Love” (September 1981) and “Flashback” (November 1981), both of which peaked at number 16, all from their debut album, also called Body Talk.

Just an Illusion – The Song

“Just an Illusion” is a song by the British trio Imagination. Co-written by Steve Jolley, Tony Swain, Ashley Ingram and Leee John, the song was a major European hit, peaking at number 2 in the group’s native UK. 

The Rubin Vase Optical Illusion – The Shape

This record has been modelled into the silhouette of the Rubin vase. The Rubin vase (sometimes known as Rubin’s vase, the Rubin face or the figure–ground vase) is a famous example of ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional forms developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. The depicted version of Rubin’s vase can be seen as the black profiles of two people looking towards each other or as a white vase, but not both. Another example of a bistable figure Rubin included in his Danish-language, two-volume book was the Maltese cross.

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