Imagination

"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."