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At thesoulsurvivorsmagazine.co.uk, you will be welcomed to Issue 102. The Music Aquarium issue for Feb. & March of 2023. It will feature news reviews and interviews with Leee John celebrating 40 yrs. of Imagination, James ‘D Train’ Williams and more.

Leee John is today’s topic. I’m going to tell you a little bit about him so when you see him and read the interview from the magazine, you’ll know something about him.

Leee John is a British musician, singer, and actor of St Lucian descent. He 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. They had hits in 28 countries, earning for platinum discs, nine gold discs, and more than a dozen silver discs around the world between 1981 and 1983.

Singer/keyboardist Leee John was working as a backing vocalist when he met Ashley Ingram, a guitarist/bassist. John and Ingram formed a songwriting partnership. Together with Ingram and Errol Kennedy, they formed Imagination. Their biggest hit, “Just an Illusion”, peaked at number 2 in March 1982. The trio frequently appeared on Top of the Pops and other pop music programmes.

Despite not being an actor, Lee John made a guest appearance on Doctor Who in the story “Enlightenment” in 1983, playing the character Mansell. The groups fortunes waned but they continued to perform, tour, and record until the early 1990s. John went back to acting, but 2003 resurfaced in the reality TV show Reborn in the USA. He released a number of dance singles in the late 1990s and early 200s.
Im Gail Nobles. Today's topic: Leee John.