John and Yoko's jim jam relived at Montreal hotel where it happened

May 14 2019 - 8:00am
SHEET MUSIC: John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their Montreal Bed-in. The pair had planned to make the anti-war protest (it was their second - the first took place in Amsterdam a few months earlier) in New York but Lennon was not allowed into the US because of his 1968 cannabis conviction.
SHEET MUSIC: John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their Montreal Bed-in. The pair had planned to make the anti-war protest (it was their second - the first took place in Amsterdam a few months earlier) in New York but Lennon was not allowed into the US because of his 1968 cannabis conviction.

IT is 50 years since the Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, Canada, welcomed John Lennon and Yoko Ono for their Bed-in for Peace. Nobody could imagine at the time that this event would play such a key role in the peace movement and that their suite would become almost a shrine.

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