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It's the 40th anniversary of John & Yoko bed-in

by marc pijps | May 22, 2009 at 02:58 pm

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It's the 40th anniversary of the bed-in done by John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

I didnt know that a rightwing cartoonist was also in the room trying to get John Lennon to start a fight! I guess he didnt or we'd have heard about it.

On the upside, in late May of 1969, here was the most famous couple in the world – the Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono – nonchalantly sitting in their white honeymoon pyjamas talking peace and non-violence in a Montreal hotel room. I was one of the throng of reporters there – as The Globe's first full-time rock writer, I'd been invited by the pair and their press secretary Derek Taylor after helping them (in a hastily called strategy meeting) to settle on Montreal as the site of “the bed-in.”

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marc pijps

at 14:58 on May 22nd, 2009

oops- is there any way to delete my own mistakes?

Jordan Yerman

at 15:01 on May 22nd, 2009

Yes, indeed- admins can delete rogue comments... just let us know if it happens again.

Joan Athey (not verified)

at 17:35 on May 22nd, 2009

Thank you Globe for sharing Lennon's spirit of peace. Toronto will have a unique chance to see over 200 photographs, most never seen before, taken by Life photojournalist Gerry Deiter in 1969. He was the only photographer to be there the entire 8 days. Visit www.bulgergallery.com. The show and sale of limited edition prints runs May 26 to June 2 with a huge live radio broadcast June 1 from 2 to 7 pm with musician/DJ Kim Mitchell in the host's chair in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Give Peace A Chance. And there's a book www.peaceworksnow.com.

Uwe Paschen

at 05:47 on May 23rd, 2009

Great Article, I think John Lennon and Yoko Ono will still make history and always be a beckon for Universal Peace. Imagine!

Here in Tokyo Yoko Ono attends every year the Annual memorial for John Lennon and what the two of them achieved together as well as for what they stood for.