A crowd of fans around a flower-decorated mosaic in Strawberry Fields, Central Park and the lyrics of "Imagine" Saturday 70th anniversary of Beatles legend John Lennon to celebrate.
The day of the Liverpool Lad Paul changed 70 years, thousands of fans around the world gathered at the British superstar floppy hair, I just wanted to remember peace a chance.
"His music speaks to people of every nation, every age, so I think many young people today who never knew the cervix is still so attractive," said Karen Kriendler Nelson, 69, lives nearby and Mosaic Lennon often visited song "Imagine" spells.
She and her Maltese dog, Pino, a group of supporters joined the WTO the lines: "Imagine no countries / is / is not difficult to kill or die for nothing / And no religion too / all / Imagine living in peace. .. "
Mites and his wife Joan, Laia, visited the memorial of Spain.
"The values Lennon still alive," said Joan mites, a lawyer of 41 years old, from Barcelona. "This is the idea that we should not fight wars."Fans began arriving Friday, pouring down the street he lived on Central Park West, not Lennon and wife Yoko Ono's famous Dakota building for nine years. He was sentenced to death by a deranged gunmen shot and killed when he returned home in December. 8, 1980.
The police set up barricades to contain the crowd next to traffic. This year, a memorial to the murdered former Beatle and peace activist, a mosaic of the city of Naples, Italy won. A plaque lists 121 countries have agreed to Strawberry Fields as a garden of peace. The 2.5 acres was founded by Ono Lennon, and the name of the song, which also noted that "life is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
The celebration began yesterday morning in his native England, the United Kingdom has never posted a video of 32 seconds to google "Doodle" to the soundtrack of "Imagine." The interactive electronic art created a butterfly and a flower - the reflection Lennon devotion to world peace.
In Liverpool, the first wife, Cynthia Lennon, and introduced his son, Julian, a sculpture to celebrate his life.
Hundreds of people gathered in the city Chavasse Park to see the couple cut a ribbon around the statue, called for peace and harmony to reveal "The sculpture, which the birds fly into a colorful world, which was designed by 19 -. years, American artist Laura Voiers.
The two hands and joined the audience to sing John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance."
"If you think that the funeral of John. I think it's time to celebrate," said Cynthia, 71 "Think of your life has been positive and good, just enjoy it."
She was married to John Lennon 1962-1968.
Celebrations in New York concert last night provided the corporate culture of ethics, a few steps from the strawberry fields. The proceeds will go to the human rights organization Amnesty International.
Limitation of New York, memories of Central Park will be a screening of a documentary detailing the life of Lennon in the city. LENNONYC Titled, "the new public television film shown at 7 in the Clock Park Rumsey Field, with capacity for a picnic on the floor.
Ono was taken from her dead husband's birthday in Iceland, with a performance by Yoko Ono, the Plastic Ono Band brand. E 'was also the prize for those who have contributed to peace today.
Ono celebrates the anniversary of her husband in Iceland, in light of the Imagine Peace Tower, a beam of blue light shines in the sky, a concert by the Plastic Ono Band followed. Ono Lennon used the tower in 2007.
They have also contributed prizes for the lovers of peace, including Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple.""Like millions around the world, deeply loved John," said Walker, who received the award in Reykjavik. The other winners were the human resources director, Josh Fox, who supports the documentary "Land of the gas" Done author and food activist Michael Pollan and Barbara Kowalcyk.
shortly before Lennon was murdered, the pair worked on an album recently that so completely different from anything he has done, "said David Edwards, a student of Kentucky, which led to 14 hours in New York, honors.
The 22-year-old found another way to kill a Beatles fan is busy all the prices I was sitting on a bench with a headset, listening to the music of Lennon for the iPod, reading your book, writing the sky from mouth to mouth. "