John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono will unveil an English Heritage Blue Plaque at 34 Montagu Square, the London home she shared with her husband from July 1968, reports the British Beatles fan club. To be revealed on Saturday 23 October, the blue plaque – which serves as a historical marker at famous landmarks around the UK – will be the first for a London property lived in by one of The Beatles. It will be only the second English Heritage Blue Plaque for a rock star, the first being in Brook Street, London at the former home of Jimi Hendrix, who coincidentally was a former inhabitant of 34 Montagu Square (it was where he wrote his classic “The Wind Cries Mary”).

In July 1968, John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved in to the property during the time The Beatles were recording The White Album. The couple shot the famous Two Virgins album cover in the basement, standing naked in front of the camera for the iconic shot. Later that year they were arrested at the flat after a police raid.

34 Montagu, which has long been featured on Beatles sightseeing tours, is part of a 19th century townhouse in London’s Marylebone area, with parts of the building at times also housing Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney’s studio.

Meanwhile, music magazine Q will mark what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday with four tribute covers, two using previously unpublished shots provided by Yoko Ono and David Bailey. It would have been the former Beatle and peace activist’s 70th birthday on Saturday 9 October.