Things that were so much a part of John

Lennon's life are being used to mark the 25th anniversary of his death.

Beijing, Dec. 8(Xinhuanet)-- 25 years ago, the former Beatle John Lennon was killed. However, time has been kind to him just as fans across the world will mark the unhappy anniversary.

In New York City, fans of former Beatle will gather Thursday night outside the apartment building where he was shot to death on the evening of Dec. 8, 1980.

Not far from the imposing facade of the Dakota, others will pay their respects at Strawberry Fields, the Central Park oasis dedicated in 1985 to the memory of Lennon.

In London and New York, Dave Matthews, Paul Weller, 1960s pop star Lulu and others will perform Lennon music in a live concert Thursday for Sirius satellite radio and the BBC.

In a ceremony in the centre of Liverpool where Lennon was born and raised, fans and officials will create a shrine beneath a statue of the legendary Beatle.

"It really did make a big impression on me seeing the Beatles on that first night at the Cavern, because it just changed my outlook," former friend and fellow musician Billy Kinsley, who knew Beatles Lennon and Paul McCartney in the 1960s, was quoted as saying by Reuters.

"I thought'My God, I have just seen the best thing that I could ever see', and since then it's been downhill because I've never seen anything as good as the Beatles." he said. Enditem

(Agencies)