A monument to John Lennon has been unveiled in Liverpool by his first wife Cynthia and son Julian on what would have been the star’s 70th birthday, reports BBC World.
The statue is intended to act as a shrine for fans who want to pay tribute to the late Beatle in his home city.
In the shape of a globe with doves flying above, it is also designed to be a monument for peace. The global birthday celebrations also included a performance by his widow Yoko Ono in Reykjavik, Iceland.
In New York, Lennon’s original band The Quarrymen headlined a tribute concert and fans gathered to remember the icon in Central Park. The area of the park known as Strawberry Fields, near the spot where Lennon was shot in December 1980, has long been a site of pilgrimage for Lennon followers - who converged on the area and sang a rendition of his song Imagine.
The Liverpool monument is designed to provide a similar place of remembrance in the city where he was born on 9 October 1940.
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