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"Imagination" is a song by British musician Belouis Some, from his 1985 debut album Some People. Upon its first release as a single in the UK in 1985, the song only managed to chart at No. 50, but a re-release proved more successful, hitting the top 20 and peaking at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1986. In the U.S., the song reached No. 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1985. On 10 October 1994, a remix of the song by British electronica band The Beloved (Jon and Helena Marsh) was released as a single on Some's own label Some Music LTD. It reached number 95 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1995. In February 2023, producer Lee Rose with Belouis Some released a tech house version of "Imagination" on Deevu Records. Background Belouis Some has described the song as being "about a British man's encounter with an extremely self-indulgent American woman", and one that "expresses the conflict between reality and dreams". Speaking of the song to Number One in 1986, he commented, "'Imagination' isn't an erotic song because it doesn't go for the jugular in say the same way that Prince does, but it is very suggestive." In a 1985 interview with Record Mirror, he said, "The single's very straight, no gimmicks, it's the song for the song's worth."

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“An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.”
— Edward Hall Alderson, B., Brownlow v. Egerton (1854), 23 L. J. Rep. Part 5 (N. S.) Ch. 365.
“C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.”
— It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary.
“[H]e who has the most imagination should be regarded as having the most intelligence or genius, for all these words are synonymous; and again, only by a shameful abuse [of terms] do we think that we are saying different things, when we are merely using different words, different sounds, to which no idea or real distinction is attached.”
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man a Machine (1747)
“The true function of logic,... as applied to matters of experience,... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.”
— Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World.
“An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius; a talent which, although chiefly displayed in poetical composition, is also the foundation (though not precisely in the same manner) of various other arts.”
— Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Vol. I (London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1792), Ch. VII: "Of Imagination", § I; p. 479.
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.

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“An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.”
— Edward Hall Alderson, B., Brownlow v. Egerton (1854), 23 L. J. Rep. Part 5 (N. S.) Ch. 365.
“C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.”
— It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary.
“[H]e who has the most imagination should be regarded as having the most intelligence or genius, for all these words are synonymous; and again, only by a shameful abuse [of terms] do we think that we are saying different things, when we are merely using different words, different sounds, to which no idea or real distinction is attached.”
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man a Machine (1747)
“The true function of logic,... as applied to matters of experience,... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.”
— Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World.
“An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius; a talent which, although chiefly displayed in poetical composition, is also the foundation (though not precisely in the same manner) of various other arts.”
— Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Vol. I (London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1792), Ch. VII: "Of Imagination", § I; p. 479.
“I build nought els but castles in the ayre.”
— Thomas Watson, Poems. Arber's reprint, p. 82. See also Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act V, scene 3.

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