Watch the film BED PEACE starring John Lennon & Yoko Ono . John & Yoko’s product however was PEACE, not soft soap, and they were determined to use any slogan, event and gimmick in order to persuade the World to buy it. BED PEACE (directed by Yoko & John and filmed by Nic Knowland) is a document of the Montreal events and features John & Yoko in conversation with, amongst others, The World Press, satirist Al Capp, activist Dick Gregory, comedian Tommy Smothers, protesters at Berkeley’s People’s Park, Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, quiltmaker Christine Kemp, psychologists Timothy Leary & Rosemary Leary, CFOX DJs Charles P. Rodney Chandler & Roger Scott, producer Andr!
She had decided that whatever action she took, she took for a specific reason. I’d been singing about love, which I guess was another word for peace. Our actual peace demonstrations were Yoko- style events. They were also pure theatre.
Yoko Ono, the Trope Namer and widow of Beatle John Lennon. She's frequently blamed for breaking up the Beatles, as per John's preference that she be by his side at all times despite the band's longstanding 'no girlfriends in.
The Bed sit- in in Canada was one of the nicest ones, and I participated almost like a spectator because it was Yoko’s way of demonstrating.” (John Lennon, 1. Once Yoko had shown John a way in which they could demonstrate, he was able to use all his influence as a Beatle and as a public figure, enhanced, of course, by his beguiling rhetoric, his tremendous reserve of energy and capacity for endurance. John’s motive was primarily to do something constructive with the constant publicity given to anything and everything he did. Their objective was to turn the Bed- In into an event that would have maximum effect through the widest coverage.“We worked for three months thinking out the most functional approach to boosting peace before we got married, and spent our honeymoon talking to the press in bed in Amsterdam,” Yoko explained. We can’t go out in Trafalgar Square because it would create a riot. We can’t lead a parade or a march because of all the autograph hunters.
We had to find our own way of doing it, and for now Bed- Ins seem to be the most logical way. We think the Bed- In can be effective.”The first Bed- In took place after John and Yoko’s secret marriage in Gibraltar on March 2. They picked Gibraltar after having tried to get married everywhere else first, and also, John said, because it was quiet, friendly, and British. Two days later they were ensconced in Suite 9. Amsterdam Hilton and word quickly got out that the Lennons were spending seven days of their honeymoon in bed for peace and as a protest against all forms of violence. The world’s press were formally invited to interview them to discuss their campaign.
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Identically dressed in white robes, John and Yoko sat in an enormous king size bed in the Grand Bedroom of the Presidential Suite, surrounded by flowers, posters, and drawings. The walls were covered with hand- painted signs reading “Bed Peace,” “Hair Peace,” “I love John” and “I love Yoko.” On the first day alone there were over fifty journalists, photographers, disc jockeys, and camera crews, all anxious to find out what was happening. John was confident but emotional; conjuring, compelling, words flowed ceaselessly from the magic Lennon tongue. His outward appearance was commanding. From John’s ever changing gallery of faces an image had evolved that perfectly suited this new role: long flowing hair framing the intense bearded face, accentuating his glazed eyes behind the National Health round wire glasses, the tautness and seriousness of his features alternating with the familiar leery smile. When he spoke he manipulated his hands in sharp gestures typical of his vibrant body language: “We are both artists!
We believe that because of everything I was as a Beatle and everything that we are now, we stand a chance of influencing other young people. And it is they who will rule the world tomorrow.”For seven days, from ten in the morning until ten in the evening, John and Yoko talked nonstop about peace. Planeloads of journalists flew in to cover the event and were for the most part sceptical. Half of them had expected to see the couple~ making love in front of the cameras; when they were confronted with a barrage of serious peace slogans they were disappointed. The attitude of the British press in particular was harsh and critical, and the way in which they hurled abuse, mercilessly lampooning John and Yoko, was unnecessary and deliberately hurtful. Nevertheless, John’s message did get printed, most often with a large amount of space given to photographs accompanied by the gist of his conversation.“We’re very shy and straight and ordinary,” John said in an effort to explain his feelings. But we’re in an abnormal situation- .
The Blue Meanies, or whoever they are, are promoting violence all the time in every newspaper, every TV show and every magazine. The least Yoko and I can do is hog the headlines and make people laugh. I’d sooner see our faces in a bed in the paper than yet another politician smiling at the people and shaking hands.”Apart from becoming physically exhausted John enjoyed the Bed- In, and the energy and attention that surrounded it. Just suppose we had wanted to go to Capri for a secret honeymoon like Jackie Kennedy had, the press would have been bound to find out. So we thought we might as well do something constructive about the publicity.”Although the main impetus for and visualization of the Bed- Ins came from Yoko, and related more to the personalities of John and Yoko than to the peace movement in general, John had been gradually influenced by the political consciousness of the sixties, particularly the London Underground.
The Underground was a diverse group embracing all manner of artists, beats, mystics and freaks, and John went out of his way to contribute to their media- especially the newspaper International Times (later IT). He had been confronted at various times by several prominent members of this community, who had asked him pointedly what he was doing about peace, and he had especially taken to heart a letter from Peter Watkins, the controversial filmmaker, repeating this question. Many smaller incidents had also registered with John. At the Alchemical Wedding, for instance, which was the Underground’s Christmas party in 1. Biafra, had screamed: “Do you care John Lennon, do you care?”while John and Yoko were on- stage in a bag.
Whether he liked it or not, John played a leading role in the youth movement. Being a Beatle had originally placed him in the part but his own actions had validated his position. Certainly in the eyes of the public John represented the left- wing, political aspect of the group. His widely publicized comments on Christianity and the Beatles, though completely misunderstood, were basic statements of fact reflecting the sentiments of most youth on the current state of religion. In turn, youth had followed John and the other Beatles in their experimentation with drugs, and their quest for cosmic consciousness with the Maharishi. What developed was a kind of mutual interaction between John and his audience, which he tried to influence through the Bed- Ins and later through his music.
John always had political opinions and had been satirizing the system ever since he wrote for and distributed outspoken magazines in school. He had grown up very aware of his working- class origins: “It’s pretty basic when you’re brought up like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere. It’s just a basic working class thing, though it begins to wear off as you get older and get a family and get swallowed up by the system.”John’s class consciousness never did really wear off, but of course it did get overshadowed at the height of Beatlemania.
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Working at a phenomenal pace, constantly touring, he had little chance to express his true feelings, and felt constantly pressured by his Beatle “image.” When after a couple of American tours Epstein tried to persuade the group to say nothing about Vietnam, John finally countered: “Listen, when they ask next time, we’re gonna say we don’t like that war and we think they should get right out!” As he explained it: “The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn’t saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more- it was just too much for me.”The Bed- Ins were immensely important to John, since they provided the release he needed for accumulated passions and emotionally charged political feelings that had been building up inside him for so long.
It was a lonely and brave stand to take and he was prepared to put his credibility on the line. Besides Yoko, there was literally nobody else who supported his actions or stood by him. To do what John did, and to pull through all the humiliation involved, it was necessary that he have complete faith in himself.“Yoko and I are quite willing to be the world’s clowns,” he said, “if by so doing it will do some good. I know I’m one of these . We’re not pointing a finger at anybody. There are no good guys and bad guys.
The struggle is in the mind. We must bury our own monsters and stop condemning people. We are all Christ and we are all Hit. Ier. We want Christ to win. We’re trying to make Christ’s message contemporary. What would he have done if he had advertisements, records, films, TV and newspapers?
Christ made miracles to tell his message. Well, the miracle today is communications, so let’s use it.”Protests were raised about the cost of the Bed- In, the extravagance of the Hilton Hotel luxury suite, the money for which could perhaps have been used in a more practical way. John was adamant, however, on that point: “People criticized us for spending all that money protesting about Biafra and suchlike, when the money would have been more useful had I sent it directly there. But I’d already done that.
And I have always respected the sentiments behind that kind of charity and I always will do. But it doesn’t solve the problem.