Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance
Ev’rybody’s talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism, This-ism, that-ism.
Isn’t it the most
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
p2p news / p2pnet: Real-life couple Michael Evans and Yu Tian got dressed up in white jammies to do a re-make of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono Montreal, Canada, bed-in during which the song Give Peace a Chance was written.
Now the lyrics, from the collection of ex-Beatles PR man Derek Taylor, who died in 1997, are being auctioned off by Bonhams in London, England, on November 16.
Give Peace a Chance was taped in the hotel room and now the words, scrawled on the back of a hotel envelope are expected to bring in £175,000-200,000, about 311,135 and 355,583 at the time of writing.
“In the summer of 1968, John and Yoko moved in together, in Ringo Starr’s London flat,” says a Bonhams press release, going on, “On March 20, 1969, the couple wed in Gibraltar. The following week, the two media stars hosted a honeymoon ‘bed-in’ for peace in room 902, the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton. The press avidly pursued them, assuming that the famous nudists would make love for their cameras. Instead, the pyjama-clad newlyweds spoke out about world peace. It was the honeymoon as performance art, interlaced with a protest against the Vietnam War.
“Lennon and Ono arrived at the Montreal hotel late at night, without a reservation or cash, after being denied entry to the United States,” says Reuters. “They had planned to stage the bed-in in New York.
“A Queen Elizabeth hotel spokeswoman said suite 1742, which has Lennon’s name on the brass door plate, is the most sought- after by patrons.”
Bonhams isn’t saying who’ll get the proceeds.
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See:-
Bonhams – UNSEEN JOHN LENNON’S LYRICS FOR ‘GIVE PEACE A CHANCE’ TO BE SOLD AT BONHAMS, October, 2005
Reuters – John Lennon’s peace anthem lyrics set for auction, October 24, 2005
October 25th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
if the bed-in was at the Amsterdam Hilton room 902, why is room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth hotel the most “sought-after”, and why is Lennon’s name on the door? according to the story,, room 1742 has nothing to do with the bed-in. or is it room 902 that has nothing to do with the bed-in?
i’m confused.
October 25th, 2005 at 4:04 pm
The ‘bed-in’ at the Amsterdam Hilton was the much publicized media event. It also gave inspiration to the Beatles Song, “The Ballad of John and Yoko.”
The song “Give Peace a Chance” was written while they were doing another bed-in, this time in Montreal, in room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Originally, John and Yoko planned to do the bed-in at a hotel in Manhattan, but were denied entrance to the US because of John Lennon’s conviction on drug offenses and ones then pending.
It was only after he applied for permanent residency (and the privilege of paying all that lovely income tax to the US Treasury) that he was permitted to move to the United States.