The Story Behind How Tom Smothers Ended Up in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In for “Give Peace a Chance”

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During John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s 1969 bed-in-for-peace recording of “Give Peace a Chance,” at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the couple had an unexpected guest performing along with them. Lennon and Tommy Smothers of the...

During John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s 1969 bed-in-for-peace recording of “Give Peace a Chance,” at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the couple had an unexpected guest performing along with them. Lennon and Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers were the only two on guitar. Both had become friends years earlier and Smothers, […]

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