#162 John Lennon Yoko Ono Suite 1742 - Fairmont Queen Elizabeth
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Dwight Rehel a bellman at the Fairmonth Queen Elizabeth takes us on a tour of room 1742 at The Fairmonth Queen Elizabeth Hotel in downtown Montreal, where The second of two bed-ins took place.
Their second bed-in was planned to take place in New York, but Lennon was not allowed into the U.S. because of his 1968 cannabis conviction.[8] Instead they intended to hold the event in the Bahamas at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel, flying there on May 24, 1969, but after spending one night in the heat, they decided to move to Canada. They first landed in Toronto and stayed at the King Edward Hotel. They interviewed with Canadian Immigration and were granted a 10 Day Visitor Status. The choice was between Toronto and Montreal. Since they needed the New York press coverage, they decided to move it to Montreal because of its proximity to New York.[9]
They flew to Montreal on May 26 where they stayed in Rooms 1738, 1740, 1742 and 1744 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. During their seven-day stay, they invited Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Dick Gregory, Murray the K, Al Capp, Allen Ginsberg and others, and all but the hostile Capp[10] sang on the peace anthem "Give Peace a Chance", recorded by André Perry in the hotel room on June 1, 1969. Perry also recorded Lennon and Ono performing Ono's song "Remember Love" after everyone else had left the room.[11][12] The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation conducted interviews from the hotel room.[13] The event received mixed reaction from the American press.[14][15]
In December 1969, Lennon and Ono spread their messages of peace with billboards reading "WAR IS OVER! If You Want It – Happy Christmas From John and Yoko". These billboards went up in eleven major world cities.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed-ins_for_Peace
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