From the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up Department".
The bells of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral will ring out to the sounds of John Lennon's anti-religious anthem Imagine later.
A team of seven volunteer bell ringers will play the 1971 song, which begins "Imagine there's no Heaven", as part of an arts festival.
The cathedral said it had carefully considered the "sensitivities" surrounding the song's lyrical content.
Lennon himself described the song as "anti-religious, anti-conventional".
The former Beatle, who was born in Liverpool and murdered in New York in 1980, said it was also "anti-capitalistic".
A spokesman for the Anglican Cathedral said: "The cathedral feels this performance has inspired many to think about their relationship with God in their lives."
Leading the recital is cathedral ringer Sam Austin, 23, a student at Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music.
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