Julian Lennon performs for the first time in public the title Imagine, in support of Ukraine

While Julian Lennon had promised himself never to play the title

in public , written by his father John Lennon in 1971, the 59-year-old musician finally decided to perform it from Warsaw in Poland, in order to raise funds for the Ukrainians.

In this video, produced for the international organization Global Citizen and published on its YouTube channel, Julian Lennon is accompanied on acoustic guitar by Nuno Bettancourt, known for having collaborated with singer Rihanna and the group Extreme.

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"The war in Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy... As a human and as an artist, I felt compelled to respond in the most meaningful way possible

," says the British singer and photographer in the caption of his YouTube video where we discover him in the middle of candles, sitting on a stool in the dark.

Imagine

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"I always said that the only time I would consider singing

Imagine

, always explains the singer-songwriter, who justifies this decision by the reflection of these words with the desire current and collective peace in the world.

he continues.

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Released in October 1971, the song opened John Lennon's second solo album,

, which had nine more tracks including

and

.

Becoming a peace anthem, the track was co-written with his wife Yoko Ono, whose contribution was not recognized until 2017. Produced by the couple and Phil Spector, the music was named the third greatest song of all time, in 2004, by

magazine .

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The musical contributions to defend the Ukrainian people are numerous.

In a video posted on March 6 on his Instagram account, singer Sting reinterpreted for the first time in forty years his song

written in 1985 in the midst of the Cold War.

A music

from which he launched an appeal for donations in order to collect medicines and basic necessities, useful to Ukrainian refugees at the Polish border.

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More recently, on the night of April 7 to 8, the British rock group Pink Floyd surprised its fans by releasing a new song called

their first production since 1994. A new title set against images of war in Ukraine, with the voice of Ukrainian singer Andriy Khlyvnyuk.