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John & Yoko: The Bed-In!

10:39 AM GMT 25/03/2009

IN March 1969, newlyweds John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week in the Presidential Suite of the Amsterdam Hilton, staging a bed-in to promote world peace. Each day, between 9am and 9pm, the couple invited the world's press into their room...

The Al Capp Brawl

"I'm a dreadful Neanderthal fascist," says cartoonist Al Capp as he walks into the Lennon's suite. Put your dukes up John, he's after a fight...

Dutch Interview

Yoko shows off her wedding ring to a Dutch interviewer. "What about the kiddies?" he asks.

Revisiting The Room

Journalist Jan Donkers revisits the the spot where he interviewed the pair in 1969. Take a glimpse at the John & Yoko honeymoon suite today.

Wakey, wakey

Breakfast in bed with the Lennons. Tea and toast, the morning papers. Start the day with these "two hairy hedonists".

Give Peace A Chance

Give Peace A Chance - the live recording from the Montreal bed-in. On hand claps - Timothy Leary and the Smothers Brothers.

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:39 AM GMT 25/03/2009

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