WHY JOHN PICKED MONTRÉAL QUÈ.

John and Yoko were in the Bahamas after spending a week in bed in the Hilton Amsterdam in what had become known as the A bed In For Peace.

Although there was a fair bit of press John knew that he could get a world wide audience only if he went to New York, he called his old pal and US impresario Murray The K and Murray got busy setting up the media to get publicity.

But when Derek Taylor told John that he couldn’t go to New York because John had been busted for pot possession and was excludable because of his arrest, John was furious “Fuck the US Derek get me set up in Toronto” so Derek had to cancel all the arrangements in New York and get John into Canada. Finally on Sunday May 25th John arrived at Toronto Intentional Airport (Now Pearson International). Checked into the Royal York Hotel and prepared to be swamped but due to lack of lead time no one knew john was there. Murray The K told john to get to Montréal so Derek called the hotels and ONLY the Queen Elizabeth Hotel would give John a Room them Derek got a list of radio stations and picked as the host for a LIVE REMOTE broadcast the picked the top AM Rock Station in the Montréal area CFOX Radio 1140 in Pointe Claire Què. And ROGER SCOTT (deceased) would host the show.

With a live remote to air broadcast scheduled John and Yoko chilled in TO (Toronto) for a couple of days she shopped with Kyoko in the best stores they reconnected and recharged for the week ahead.

John wanted to see Niagara Falls so he could say that they went to Niagara Falls in their honeymoon, but as much he wanted his honeymoon with Yoko be eternal he had no way of knowing the cruel truth that that request would yield because you see on Dec 8, 1980 John was gunned down , he was in love again with Yoko like he had been before, but that’s another story this is the story of the creation of the most widely sung anti-war suing ever written “Give Peace A Chance” with the only photos of the actual recording session and other unpublished works from the Bed in.

How I got in to the room At the age of 18 I was very fortunate to have the chance to be one of the photographers at the "Bed In For Peace" in Montreal.