Thirty years after the death of John Lennon, this special Daily Mirror publication looks back on his extraordinary life.

Using rare and unseen images from the magnificent Mirror archive, and featuring Mirror pages and reports, we relive the Lennon years, from Beatlemania to his time as a solo artist and peace campaigner in the 1970s, largely spent with his wife Yoko Ono in New York.

The 84-page magazine reproduces the Mirror’s coverage of his shocking murder outside the Dakota building in December 1980, and shows how the world reacted to the loss of a musical icon.

Released in the year that Lennon would have turned 70, it's sure to be popular with his fans, who keep the Lennon legend alive.