A remote Scottish village has unveiled a memorial to John Lennon. Lennon spent his annual vacations in the tiny village of Durness in the Scottish Highlands between the ages of 7 and 15, and he returned to the village in 1969 with Yoko Ono, his son, Julian, and her daughter, Kyoko, to show them around. Locals, keen to mark his association with the area, have set three standing stones inscribed with lyrics from the Beatles' track ‘In My Life’ including the words "there are places I remember". "John would have been thrilled with this memorial," Lennon's cousin, Stan Parkes, told reporters. "He just loved Durness and the openness, the wild mountains, the lochs and all the rest of it."
Aug 16, 2002
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Scottish Lennon tribute
The remote Scottish village of Durness has unveiled a memorial to John Lennon, who spent childhood holidays there.