Yoko Ono’s peace-sign tribute to John Lennon falls short of record

Led by Yoko Ono, thousands of people came together at the East Meadow area of New York City’s Central Park on Tuesday in an attempt to create the world’s largest peace sign in honor of the upcoming 75th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth.

The current record was set in Ithaca, N.Y.in 2009 with 5,814 people.

“You don’t have to do much/ Power works in mysterious ways”. Unfortunately she fell short of her goal, amassing just over 2,000 people, a Guinness World Records representative told CBS News.

The event, however, still turned out to be a fitting tribute to the legendary songwriter.

Still, the event served to spread the “Imagine Peace” message long promoted by Lennon and his widow.

Ono also used to event to raise awareness to the John Lennon Educational Bus Tour, a non-profit recording studio centered on teaching kids music and video production. The memorial is lit each year on that date, and other selected dates as well.

Lennon was born in 1940 in Liverpool and rose to fame as co-founder of the Beatles.

Lennon died in December 1980, aged 40, after being shot five times in the back by Mark David Chapman outside his home in the Dakota Building, in front of Central Park. We assembled ourselves into what we hoped would be the largest-ever human peace sign.