John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their second "Bed-In For Peace" in Montreal on May 26, 1969

John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their second "Bed-In For Peace" event on May 26th of 1969. This event took place at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada.

It was at the Montreal "Bed-In" that "Give Peace A Chance" was recorded:


The recording of "Give Peace A Chance" (with everyone singing along on the recording) was attended by many people including Timothy Leary, Murray the K, Derek Taylor, Allen Ginsberg, Petula Clark, and Tommy Smothers (of the Smothers Brothers) who also played acoustic guitar.

Originally Lennon & Ono planned for this event to take place in New York City but US immigration officials refused to allow John Lennon to enter into the country because of his 1968 drug conviction in London. Montreal was chosen due to it's closeness to the US border. The first "Bed-In" event took place in Amsterdam about two months before.

John Lennon & Yoko Ono April Fools Joke On April 1, 1970

37 years ago today John Lennon & Yoko Ono released a statement that they were going to be undergoing side by side sex change operations so that Lennon would become a woman and Ono a man. This of course turned out to be an April Fools Joke.

Watch this interview with John & Yoko from around this same time period. In this interview they are defending their activities for peace.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in Gibraltar on March 20, 1969

John and Yoko were married on this date 38 years ago.

This time in their life was written about in the John Lennon penned Beatles song "The Ballad of John & Yoko" and Gibraltar is mentioned in the lyrics.

Gibraltar is a small UK overseas territory that is only 2 and a half square miles and has a population of about 25,000 people. It shares a land border with Spain to the north.

"The Ballad of John & Yoko"


Interesting Beatles trivia: Only John Lennon and Paul McCartney are on the the recording of "The Ballad of John & Yoko" and Paul played the drums. McCartney also played the drums on "Back in the USSR" and "Dear Prudence"

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Yoko Ono born on February 18th, 1933

Yoko Ono turns 74 today, February 18th.

Ono is best known as being John Lennon's wife and now unfortunatly as Lennons widow.

She was an active partner with Lennon on many of his solo recordings and she is also heard on some Beatles recordings including "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and "Revolution #9"

Yoko Ono has also released music under her own name. Her most recent album is 2007's "Yes, I'm A Witch" which is a very interesting collaborative effort in which artists such as The Flaming Lips and Cat Power took tracks that Ono had recorded previously and recorded new music to mix with Ono's vocals. Some also included some of the original instrumentation in the mix.

Included below is a video of a track called "New York Woman" from her 1995 album "Rising"



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John Lennon & Yoko Ono Donate Their Hair To The Black Power Movement - Feb. 4th, 1970

On this day 37 years ago John Lennon and Yoko Ono donated their hair to the Black Power movement.

This doesn't really have anything to do with this - but it's kind of interesting: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Chuck Berry (well he's black) on the Mike Douglas show making macrobiotic food:



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