Leee John (Imagination) interviewed by Lenny Fontana for True House Stories # 028 (Part 2)

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ LEEE JOHN #028 - PART 2
With record sales in excess of over 30 million albums the incomparable, award winning LEEE JOHN and his group IMAGINATION released and successfully had so many amazing global classic hits singles and platinum, gold and silver albums with songs such as “Body Talk“ “ Just an illusion” “Music and Lights” “Changes” “Flashback” “In The Heat of the Night” and many more securing IMAGINATION’s with their perfect Brit Soul/Jazz/Funk songs establishing their position as essential 80's crossover hit-makers and an influence for future generations in the music industry and fast forward today is continuously entertaining and touring the world in demand with IMAGINATION and as a solo Artist.
Over the past four decades LEEE JOHN continues to captivate audiences with his spectacular live shows across Europe – Africa – South America – Asia – as well as number of the French speaking territories with their ongoing love of his music.
In 2020 we see LEEE once again climbing up the charts on various playlist in the UK and across Europe with DJ/Producer TLOVE – featuring LEEE JOHN with the track written by LEEE titled “HORIZON”. Other recent musical collaborations include an explosive electric duet single called “Don’t Stop” with Plastic Bertrand, written by LEEE. He has also recently appeared as guest artist on the newly released Gorillaz Album “SONG MACHINE “ with the track “The Lost Chord” co-written with LEEE and Damon Alban.
Other exciting projects on the way this year will be the smooth and sultry sounding Latin single “Solitude” with x 2 Latin Grammy Award winning Brazilian Artist Jorge Vercillo. In addition, we also see a smooth jazz album with the phenomenal music maestro “Bill Sharpe” from English jazz-funk band “SHAKATAK” is in the pipeline and due for release in (2021), welcoming an incredible joint blend of smooth soul jazz tiled as “LEEE JOHN & BILL SHARPE” project as well as a long awaited new LEEE JOHN album apply titled “ACOUSTICLEEE” to coincide with an Inernational tour dates being planned featuring old and news songs performed live.
In other creative projects LEEE has been busy producing and directed 5 documentaries taking him as far away as Zambia , Tunisia, South Africa and France and is currently producing and directing ”Flashback” a Film of the history of British black music for which more than 200 interviews are already in the can, including Beverley Knight, Eddy Grant, Billy Ocean , Maxie jazz of Faithless , Ali Campbell of UB40, Mike Lindup of Level 42 , Trevor Nelson, Omar, Geno Washington, Maxie Priest, Sonique , Hamish Stuart of Average white band , Courtney pine Ruby Turner and many, many more - Flashback Documentary.
Finally, to coincide with 40th Anniversary of LEEE JOHN OF IMAGINATION (1981 – 2021) we are currently underway in planning a very special and unique anthology special de-lux box set of the complete IMAGINATION body of work repertoire spanning up to four decades to include all 10 + IMAGINATION albums, plus extra CDs with extended mixes, as well as previously unreleased tracks/mixes, this superior de-lux box set will be presented as the definitive career-encompassing box set and will run in conjunction with a series of planned UK & Intl live tours going into 2021/22.
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 LEEE 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.