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PODCAST. The Beatle and his new wife invite the press to their wedding night in an Amsterdam palace to plead for world peace.
Par Frédéric Lewino et Gwendoline Dos Santos
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono married on March 20, 1969, in Gibraltar. They know they will be hounded relentlessly by the gossip press. So they decide to stand together and take the opportunity to talk about peace in the world while the Vietnam War is raging. We are then in the middle of the Peace and Love period. They design it as a sit-in, but in a bed. So they summon the press to a “bed-in for peace”. The chosen location is their suite at the Hilton hotel in Amsterdam where they welcome journalists in their king size bed from March 25 to 31, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. They rush in believing these two followers of hallucinogenic substances capable of making love before their eyes. After all, didn’t John and Yoko just release the album Two Virgins where they fi…