“Give Peace A Chance” by John Lennon

"Give Peace a Chance" started as an offhand answer. In bed with Yoko Ono in Montreal for their "Bed-In" honeymoon, John Lennon was asked by a reporter what staying in bed was meant to achieve, and the reply he kept repeating became the title. His press officer, Derek Taylor, found an engineer, and on 1 June 1969 André Perry, who owned a local studio, carried four microphones and a four-track tape machine into Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where Lennon and Ono recorded it with a small crowd of friends.

Apple released it in July 1969 under the Plastic Ono Band name, Lennon's first solo single while he was still a Beatle; the label said Lennon–McCartney, but the song was his. It reached 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 2 in Britain, and through the 1970s it became a rallying song for America's anti-war movement.

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