A pianist took to the streets with a touching performance of John Lennon's song 'Imagine' near one of the sites of Friday night's attacks in Paris.

In the wake of the attacks, the song became widely shared on social media, with people highlighting the line that says "imagine all the people living life in peace".

Taking that song as a form of anthem, one musician pulled his piano up behind him on a bike to Rue Richard Lenoir near the Bataclan concert hall, one of the sites of the attacks, and began to play a version of it, according to one bystander who filmed the performance and uploaded it to YouTube. 

A pianist paying tribute to the victims in Paris by playing John Lennon's "Imagine" just now. pic.twitter.com/GMtGQd7j43

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The performance drew a crowd of onlookers, some of whom were visibly emotional during it.