Leee John of Imagination
Flashback Greatest Hits 2024 Tour
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With record sales in excess of over 30 million + albums, the incomparable, award winning LEEE JOHN of 80's crossover soul hit-makers IMAGINATION has announced 10-date UK tour for 2024, performing their greatest hits as well as tracks from his diverse solo career.
The tour comes after the release of “40 Years” in February this year, a career-encompassing retrospective of IMAGINATION’s and LEEE JOHN’s recorded music output, with 189 tracks across 17-CD box set curated by LEEE, celebrating 40 years as one of the UK’s finest soul stirring voices with their perfect genre defining Brit Soul/Jazz/Funk songs, IMAGINATION established their landmark position and influence for future generations in the music industry.
IMAGINATION first burst onto the British music scene in 1981 with their unforgettable debut single ‘Body Talk’ becoming a favourite of pirate soul, jazz and funk stations, eventually propelling the track into the charts and the band onto their debut appearance on Top of the Pops.
The track was soon followed by so many amazing global classic hits singles and platinum, gold and silver albums with further chart hits such as ‘In and Out of Love’, ‘Flashback’, ‘Just An Illusion’, and ‘Music and Lights’, and the influential albums ‘Body Talk’, ‘In the Heat of the Night’, ‘Scandalous’, ‘Closer’, and ‘Like It Is’ and many more, all delivering them smash hits in over 30 countries.
LEEE JOHN OF IMAGINATION continues to tour the world and has appeared with many world renowned Artists such as The Jacksons, Earth Wind and Fire, Kool and the Gang, Nile Rogers of Chic, Incognito and Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Recently he was honoured and given a Lifetime achievement award in the UK and a Humanitarian award in France for his continuous ongoing charity work support in aid of SOS children, a world orphan charity.