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Leee John (born Leslie McGregor John, 23 June 1957) is an English musician, singer and actor of St Lucian descent.
John was born in Hackney, London, and educated in New York City, later studying drama at the Anna Scher Theatre School. He is perhaps best known as the lead singer of the soul band Imagination, which had three UK Top 10 hits in the early 1980s.
He was working as a backing singer when he met Ashley Ingram (born (1960-11-27) 27 November 1960, Northampton, England) a guitarist/bassist. They formed a songwriting partnership, working in a short-lived band called Fizzz. Together with Ingram and Errol Kennedy (born (1953-06-09) 9 June 1953, Montego Bay, Jamaica) they formed Imagination, a three piece soul music band from the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.
Produced by Jolley & Swain their hit "Body Talk" reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1981. Their biggest hit, "Just an Illusion", peaked at number two in March 1982. The trio frequently appeared on Top of the Pops and other pop music programmes.
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Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard; 3 November 1954) is an English singer and musician. He gained popularity as the lead singer of post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring 10 UK top ten hits from 1980 to 1983, including three No. 1s. He has also worked as an actor, appearing in over two dozen films and television episodes from 1985 to 2003.
Since 2010, Ant has undertaken an intensive reactivation of his musical career, performing live regularly in his hometown of London and beyond, recording and releasing a new album and with three full-length UK national tours, two US national tours and a short Australian tour all now completed.
Stuart Goddard was born an only child, in Marylebone, London. Concern for oppressed minorities—one of the themes he used in his later work—was part of his heritage; he is of partial Romani descent. His maternal grandfather, Walter Albany Smith, was Romanichal. Home was two rooms in De Walden buildings, St John's Wood. He recalls: "There was no luxury, but there was always food on the table." His father, Leslie Goddard, had served in the Royal Air Force and worked as a chauffeur and his mother, Betty Kathleen Smith, was an embroiderer for Norman Hartnell.
IMAGINATION feat Leee John @ THE JAZZ CAFÉ CAMDEN, 16/10/2015.
Leee John (Imagination) "Body Talk" Live @ Band On The Wall 2013
Adam Ant - Interview by Leee John
Will Downing Wishing On A Star Live ft Leee John
Imagination featuring Leee John - The Truth (extrait live à La Cigale)
https://www.facebook.com/LEEE-JOHN-121213754599996/?fref=ts https://twitter.com/leeejohn Over the past three decades multi award winning British soul group Imagination have brought us such classic hits such as “Body Talk, Just An illusion , Music and Lights and Changes” which helped secure Imagination’s power and dominance over the charts in the 1980’s with their genre defying music not only in the UK but across the world with sales in excess of over 30 million albums thus Imagination presented perfect Brit Jazz/Funk songs and establishing their position as essential 80’s crossover soul-dance hit-makers and influencers for future generations of pop stars. Even today the story of Imagination’s music continues in the form of a long list of samples, remixes and adaptations by major contempo...
The dynamic and very talented Leee John (Imagination) performing "Body Talk" live at Band on the Wall in Manchester, 22nd October 2013.
With my pale eyes, I watch with delight
Beyond the horizon on the everlasting night
A heart so black and cold as ice
A soul in fire blessed and baptized
Lucifer is the fallen light-bearer
For his glory we must all burn!
Children of darkness...
Raise your blood-filled cups to our father with horns
In eternity, we shall blaspheme the one who was tormented with thorns
A new era will arise as I see the black angels of the abyss fly
And the demons come storming in the silent cloud-less sky
With their burning eyes of ripping evil...
I am given strength from a thousand sinners
That dwell in the everlasting, burning, roaring depths of Hell
With the demons the possess my blackened heart and soul
I shall strive for Satan's triumph and reach infernal goals
Children of darkness...
Raise your blood-filled cups to our father with horns
In eternity, we shall blaspheme the one who was tormented with thorns
Feel the darkness growing when we draw near
My name is legion, for we are many in here
Heaven shall burn accompaigned by the angels' cries
We shall invert paradise