--- description: A man brought his piano to the Bataclan to play the John Lennon song after Friday's terrorist attacks title: Pianist Plays 'Imagine' Outside Besieged Paris Concert Venue image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50f7204b4dd53700/698871138e06010243463509/screen-shot-2015-11-14-at-10-10-07-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Pianist Plays 'Imagine' Outside Besieged Paris Concert Venue  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2015 3:12 PM CUT   by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2015 3:12 PM CUT A man brought his piano to the Paris concert venue where authorities say more than 100 people were killed on Friday to [play John Lennon’s world-peace anthem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsq5ms9lvI&feature=youtu.be "undefined") “Imagine.” At least [127 people are dead](http://time.com/4112639/paris-attack-terror-bataclan-hollande/?xid=homepage "undefined") in the wake of six known coordinated attacks on the French capital. In one of those attacks, gunmen took hostages and opened fire on a crowd at the Bataclan concert hall. “He pulled his piano with a bike up to rue Richard Lenoir ten meters from the Bataclan,” according to one [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsq5ms9lvI&feature=youtu.be "undefined")‘s description. A journalist reporting on camera for CNN described the scene in the middle of a broadcast near the venue. “There’s [a grand piano that was just rolled out](https://twitter.com/PB%5FPrathamesh%5FB/status/665511172343513088?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw "undefined") in the middle of the crowd and in the middle of this group of journalists,” she said, “and someone \[is\] playing ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon quite loudly.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4112950/paris-attacks-concert-hall-imagine-piano/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4112950/paris-attacks-concert-hall-imagine-piano/"},"headline":"Pianist Plays 'Imagine' Outside Besieged Paris Concert Venue","datePublished":"2015-11-14T15:12:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:37:11.929Z","description":"A man brought his piano to the Bataclan to play the John Lennon song after Friday's terrorist attacks","url":"https://time.com/4112950/paris-attacks-concert-hall-imagine-piano/","keywords":["France","paris"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50f7204b4dd53700/698871138e06010243463509/screen-shot-2015-11-14-at-10-10-07-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50f7204b4dd53700/698871138e06010243463509/screen-shot-2015-11-14-at-10-10-07-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-11-14 at 10.10.07 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4112950/paris-attacks-concert-hall-imagine-piano/","name":"Pianist Plays 'Imagine' Outside Besieged Paris Concert Venue"}}]}] ```