NEW YORK — John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono is planning a series of events in Iceland to mark what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday.

The artist and peace campaigner will light the Imagine Peace Tower illuminated memorial, located on the island of Vioey near Icelandic capital Reykjavik, on Oct. 9.

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A special performance by the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band will follow the ceremony. Lennon was fatally shot outside the couple's Manhattan apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980.

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