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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. 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.
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Leee John of Imagination Biography

Imagination were a three piece soul music band from the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, sometimes described as Britain's first black supergroup. They had chart hits in 28 countries, earning four platinum discs, nine gold discs and over a dozen silver discs between 1981 and 1983.

The band consisted of:
* Leee John was born John Lesley McGregor in Hackney, London, on 23 June 1957, 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 singer for The Delfonics, Chairmen of the Board, The Velvelettes and The Elgins when he met ...
* Ashley Ingram, a guitarist/bassist born on 27 November 1960, in 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 on 9 June 1953, a drummer who was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and learned to drum in the Boys' Brigade and Air Training Corps.

Leee John's drama studies paid off when, among other roles, he was in the cast of the Doctor Who story 'Enlightenment' in 1983.
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