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John Lennon Give Peace A Chance
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Here John Lennon sings Give Peace A Chance during his famous Montreal bed-in for peace with Yoko Ono. However, this was not their first bed-in.The week after their wedding in Gibraltar On March 20, 1969, John and Yoko used their celebrity for good. They hosted a honeymoon “bed-in” for peace in room 902, the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton.
John Lennon’s “Ballad of John and Yoko” chronicles the week in song:
Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton
Talking in our bed for a week
The news people said
‘Hey, what you doin’ in bed?’
I said, ‘We’re only tryin’ to get us some peace!’
The couple planned to mount a second bed-in in New York. The United States refused to issue John Lennon a visa due to his earlier marijuana arrest. Going instead to Montreal they took the corner suite rooms 1738-40-42 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel on May 26, 1969 to stage their second weeklong bed-in for peace.
On June 1, 1969, a guitar was found for Tommy Smothers. John and Yoko, along with a roomful of people that included Dr. Timothy Leary, Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, Derek Taylor, Petula Clark, and members of the Canadian Radha Krishna Temple in the chorus, recorded “Give Peace a Chance.”
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October 27th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
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