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WATCH: 50th Anniversary of the Bed-in for Peace

It was 50 years ago today, John and Yoko told the band to play.

The week-long bed-in that saw a pyjama-clad John Lennon and Yoko Ono host a parade of journalists, LSD gurus, counterculture luminaries and hangers-on in their Montreal hotel suite kicked off on May 25, 1969, and culminated in the on-site recording of “Give Peace a Chance.”

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A half-century later, the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel is celebrating their storied pacifist pitch to the world with an art exhibition and tours of the suite they occupied.

“We wanted everybody to enjoy the feeling of the bed-in and to understand, because newer generations don’t know about it. Some don’t know who John Lennon is,” said Joanne Papineau, a Fairmont spokeswoman.

The suite now features vintage-style recording equipment, a flower-print tea set and photos of Lennon and Ono in repose, reading Lao Tzu’s The Way of Life and smelling flowers.

Source: Montreal marks 50th anniversary of John Lennon, Yoko Ono bed-in for peace | Globalnews.ca