Beatles to Attend Unveiling of Imagine Peace Tower
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will arrive in Iceland October 5 and are scheduled to attend the Unveiling of Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island off Reykjavík October 9, on her late husband’s John Lennon’s birthday.
According to mbl.is, the Beatles will stay at Hótel Borg with a team of bodyguards and assistants.
Both McCartney and Starr have visited Iceland before, McCartney in 2000 with his former wife Heather Mills, and Starr in 1984 when he played with local band Studmenn.
The Imagine Peace Tower is a powerful beacon of light representing people’s wishes for peace, set to shine every year between October 9, Lennon’s birthday, and December 8, the anniversary of his death. Lennon would have turned 67 next October 9.
I'm so excited to see pictures for this. Apparently Yoko buried 50,000 wishes for peace at the base of the tower along with young trees placed in specific locations so that it'll look like a forest one day. You gotta hand it to her...she does have a certain amount of flair, does Yoko Oh-no!
Considering of his forty years John was a peace "activitist" for what...three?? And he dropped it like a hot potato when it stopped selling records and went back to his normal activities of drugs, booze and whoring. Yoko is doing a good job here. John was a Beatle? Get away! He wrote songs with Paul McCartney? Never! He's a saint, a guru and an art instalation, forever tied with the good name of Yoko Ono. I need to wretch.
The Icelandic Postal Company released a new series of stamps on Thursday depicting the Imagine Peace Tower, which was relit during a special ceremony on Videy island off Reykjavík on the same day with Yoko Ono, the artwork’s creator, in attendance.
The Imagine Peace Tower is dedicated to the memory of Ono’s late husband, Beatle John Lennon. The tower is a beam of light, which will shine every year between October 9, Lennon’s birthday, and the day of his assassination, December 8. It was established last year.
The stamp, designed by Orn Smari Gislason, is printed in a traditional four-color offset format and then overprinted with phosphorus in silk screen which causes the picture to accumulate light and then glow in the dark.
When exposed to ultraviolet light, a picture of John Lennon appears on the stamp. The outlines of Lennon’s face in the picture were inspired by wishes for peace that have been hung on Ono’s “Wish Tree,” which has traveled the world since 1981.
On the paper strips surrounding a set of ten stamps the words “Imagine Peace” are written in 24 languages, as inscribed on the base of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy, and if they are torn off and the edges glued together, people can place a candle in the middle and create their own tower of light and peace.
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