Remix box set, book, films offer deep dive into John Lennon's 'Imagine'

After the Beatles formally disbanded in 1970, John Lennon wowed critics with his inaugural post-Beatles solo album, "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band." But it took that album's successor, "Imagine," to capture the public's affection in a major way with a more broadly accessible work that became the first of his three solo efforts to top Billboard's national album sales chart, reaching No. 1 in October 1971.

In conjunction with the 78th anniversary of Lennon's birth on Oct. 9, 1940, his widow, Yoko Ono, has overseen production of an immersive