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John Lennon "Imagine 80" Tribute Concert Event Announced

John Lennon "Imagine 80" Tribute Concert Event Announced for October 9, 2020

NORWALK, CT - On October 9 of next year, John Lennon would have turned 80 years of age. On the exact date of this momentous occasion, Friday evening, October 9, 2020, Beatles fans and music aficionados from all over will "come together" at the Norwalk Concert Hall, 125 East Avenue in Norwalk, Connecticut, for a very special theatrical concert event entitled "Remember Lennon: Imagine 80." Doors open at 7pm and showtime is 8pm.

Connecticut-based Liverpool Productions Beatles Fan Club premiered a similar event in 2010 at the Shubert Theater in New Haven in celebration of John Lennon's 70th birthday. The show was a speculative representation of a concert that Lennon may have performed had he still been alive and actually playing out. The show incorporated multi-media slide-shows and rare video, a full backing band and state-of-the art production to present an evening of John Lennon's Beatles and post-Beatles material live in concert. It included not only Lennon's earlier "Moptop" hits with his mates Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, but also covered John's most memorable and poignant recordings as a solo artist. The set-list featured many songs that John never actually played live. The concert at the Shubert did very well, and attendees wanted the show to come back as an annual event, but producer Charles F. Rosenay!!!, fan club president and executive producer of Liverpool Productions, wanted to make it special and keep it as an exclusive event.

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For this one-night-only occasion, there will also be an opening act and very special guest dignitaries to be announced.

Tickets for this historic 80th birthday gala start at only $19.40 (1940 is the year John was born). There are also $39 and $49 tickets, plus a limited number of $80 (yes, the same number as John's birthday) VIP packages which include seating in the front rows, meet & greet with the stars, photo op and souvenir gifts including a commemorative event shirt. A portion of proceeds will benefit a charity to be announced.

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"Remember Lennon: Imagine 80" is presented by Liverpool Productions, the same organization that has produced Beatles Conventions/Beatles Expos in Connecticut since 1978, and more recently the Beatles 50th Anniversary events in New York as well as the "Fab 4 Music Festivals" and "Danbury Fields Forever" Connecticut Beatles Music Festivals. They also organize the annual the "Magical History Tours" to Liverpool and London for Beatles fans since 1983.

For further information visit www.RememberLennon.com and get tickets at rememberlennon.ticketleap.com/rememberlennon80/

REMEMBER LENNON: IMAGINE 80 is a unique extraordinary musical theater experience celebrating the music, the memory, the magic and the LIFE of John Lennon.

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