A day like today in 1980 Lennon was murdered at the gates of the Dakota building, where he had installed his residence along with Yoko Ono , just steps from Central Park garden where his followers wept again today to commemorate his death.
"Strawberry Fields", that area of the lung in New York chaired by a mosaic with the word "Imagine", the legendary title song written by Lennon, now again filled with flowers and music in memory of the artist from Liverpool .
"It's his music that attracts people to this place. Here you see strangers making friends and adults who become young again, a good way to remind you, "said one of the followers of the chain Lennon NY1.
Meanwhile, his widow Yoko Ono invited exbeatle fans through his account at Twitter to leave messages and tributes ImaginePeace.com page, where you have appeared almost a thousand people.
Coinciding with the anniversary of his assassination 31, Time magazine published on its website today eight hitherto unpublished photographs of some of the famous "bed-ins" (protests in the bed) exbeatle starred in a hotel in Montreal (Canada ) in 1969.
The images, which were taken by photojournalist Stephen Sammons, show some of the moments lived that day, when Lennon wrote in just fifteen minutes another of his legendary compositions, "Give peace a chance".
Lennon died on December 8, 1980 at a hospital in the Big Apple after being shot five times in the back of the hands of a madman at the door of his residence in the Dakota building on the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
The confessed murderer, Mark David Chapman, meets since 1981 a sentence in maximum security prison in Attica, in upstate New York, where he has tried several times unsuccessfully to obtain parole.
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