30 March 1981: Liverpool cathedral is the setting for a Festival of Peace to remember the Beatle assassinated a few months earlier
The words of John Lennon, former Beatle, replaced those of Thomas Cranmer, former Archbishop of Canterbury, in Liverpool Cathedral yesterday as more than 2,000 people attended a Festival of Peace in memory of the assassinated musician.
On a more traditional Sunday afternoon there are 150 people in Britain’s largest cathedral for choral Evensong.
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