Lennon resented Imagine

The Beatles star John Lennon resented critics labelling his hugely successful solo album Imagine as the best he would ever produce, because he believed he would live long enough to pen a superior record.

Speaking in a recently discovered radio interview dating from 1975, the late rock legend - who was shot by schizophrenic Mark Chapman just five years later - did not agree with fickle reviewers who claimed he had reached his peak with the hit 1971 LP.