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On Tue, 25 May 1999, richard joly wrote:

> 	
> Bonjour,
> 
> dans la Presse de samedi, il y avait un long article pour le 30ieme
> anniversaire du  Bed In de John Lennon et Yoko Ono. J'aimerai lire les
> autres articles publies sur ce sujet dans la presse locale.
> 
> Est ce qu'il y a eu quelque chose dans The Gazette, le Journal de
> Montreal, ou Le Devoir, ou dans d'autres journaux nationaux ?
> 
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> Hi, 
> 
> last Saturday, La Presse carried an article on the 30th anniversary
> of JOHN LENNON AND YOKO ONO MONTREAL BED IN FOR PEACE..  I'd like to
> read other articles on this, in the canadian press, if anything is
> printed  up.
> 
> Anything in the Gazette, or other dailies yet ? Please answer and cc
> to my email,  as well . Thanks.
> 
> Richard Joly
> 
> 
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> rjoly@cam.org  - 
> Breaking news about Yoko has moved: 
> http://pages.prodigy.net/jeffmail/onoweb/news.html
> onoweb :  http://www.cam.org/~rjoly/yoko/onoweb.html
> 
I was surprised there hasn't been much said about this anniversary, but
I'm beginning to think the press will hype the 25th and not the thirtieth.

Earlier this year it occurred to me that this would be the thirtieth
anniversary of the Bed-In, though I honestly had no idea what month it
took place in.  A few weeks ago I did a search trying to find a date, and
no success, though I admit I didn't get around to looking for books at the
library.  Wednesday morning I woke up and they were saying that it was the
thirtieth anniversary of the first day of the bed in.

I was going to post something here about it, didn't get around to it (like
a lot of things) and then it was sort of in the news.

The Gazette had a short article earlier this week, I think on Thursday.  I
can't find the section right now, though I know it's somewhere around and
I will check for it later.  It was just a brief item, mentioning that it
took place thirty years ago.

CJAD has something happening in the actual hotel room on Monday, during
the Tommy Schnurmacher show.  He was actually there thirty years ago,
though this thing on Monday seems more like a publicity thing than a real
remembrance.  Of course, a lot of the famous people who where there during
the Bed-In and on the actual recording are dead by now.

Joe Schwartz, who does a chemistry call-in show on CJAD on Friday
mornings, was saying the other day that he'd visited the Bed-In to
interview John and Yoko for the McGill Daily.  I wonder if they keep files
going back that far?

The Gazette this morning, Sunday, had a remembrance in the "Magazine"
secion by someone who was there as a music writer for the Gazette.  I
haven't checked to see if it's on the Gazette's webpage at
http://www.montrealgazette.com

I once vaguely knew someonw (a friend of a friend) who was there, though I
never heard the story from him and it's just name-dropping.  It wsa Peter
Sherman who worked for CJAD at the time, and later was station manager and
even later moved to Toronto for some management position in the company.
I always assumed that he'd been there for the recording, but as I hear
Tommy Schnurmacher's tale of being there (he took care of Yoko's kid) and
read the story this morning, I realize that a lot of people dropped by
during the week of the Bed-In and could just as easily have been reporting
on it as participating.

I tried to talk the four guys in the window at The Bay to have a Bed-In to
remember the thirtieth anniversary, but I see no sign of them doing so.

Since I'm posting this to the newsgroup I might as well put in some
pointers that I did come up with when I'd originally intended to post
about the anniversary.

It took place at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, suite 1742 if the
history sites are correct.

It was their second Bed-In, the first taking place in Amsterdam in April
of that year.  That one would seem to have been mentioned in "The Ballad
of John and Yoko".  You can find the lyrics here:
   http://www.musica.org/letras/ing1/B14059.htm

"Give Peace a Chance" itself was recorded at the hotel.  People tend to
know the refrain and forget (or not know) the rest of the lyrics, but it
actually refers to people who were in the hotel room at the time of the
recording.  You can find those lyrics here:
   http://www.webaccess.net/~sr2002/lyrics/givpeace.txt

John Lennon had wanted to hold the second Bed-In in the US, but he
wasn't allowed in, so Montreal got the history.  Which is why people like
Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary (and Rosemary) came up to Montreal.  

Of course, later in 1969 John Lennon was back in Toronto for a big
concert.

I wonder if the lack of public comment about the thirtieth anniversary of
the Bed-In will mean there won't be much said about the thirtieth
anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon, and Woodstock (and
Charles Manson).

   Michael