Imagination is the fourteenth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy and was released in February 1983[2] as her second LP for MCA Records.

A story on Reddy from the September 19, 1981, issue of Billboard detailed some of what she had in mind for this second MCA project: "'I'll work on my next album around the end of the year or in January or February so it'll be ready for an Easter [1982] release,'"[5] she told the magazine, but it didn't come out until 1983.

In the liner notes of Reddy's 1996 compilation CD When I Dream, Brian Giorgi explains that the changes in the music industry in 1983 that sealed the fate of this album were not just in top 40 radio programming.

"[7] She found out how much lower when the album arrived in stores: The fact that Reddy was divorcing Jeff Wald, who had also been her manager since the late 1960s, and that they were in a custody dispute over their 10-year-old son became of greater interest to entertainment reporters.

I didn't know it yet, but the interview intended as publicity for the album was now a cover story, complete with a smiling picture of me, on 'Hollywood's Dirtiest Custody Case.

The release of "Don't Tell Me Tonight"[13] as a single coincided with a performance of the song on Solid Gold,[14] and Reddy also had a video made for the title track from the album, which also came out in the 7-inch format.

[21] Cashbox gave the album a positive review at the time of its release, commenting that "while there are some moments when Reddy does get a little hard-edged and gutsy...this is a package geared primarily towards Reddy’s AC fans" and that the horn and string arrangements enhanced her "self-confident vocals"; the songs "Handsome Dudes" and "Yesterday Can't Hurt Me" were recommended to radio stations that programmed "mellow pop".

"The Dane Jeffries title track might as well be The Go-Go's or Missing Persons; it's a really great new wave pop tune, served up on a vinyl 12-inch with an extended dance remix for good measure.

"[1] He emphasized that this update in her sound has expanded the singer artistically: "Side two is more of this new-styled radio pop, and both 'Looks Like Love' and 'The Way I Feel' are among the best work Helen Reddy has ever created.