GIVE PEACE A CHANCE, 1969 'Well, after being interviewed for weeks and weeks and weeks, night and day, with Yoko and me talking about peace from our beds, I had those words coming out of my mouth or Yoko's – wherever the hell they came from – and it became a song.' - JL, 1980 Recorded 50 years ago today, 31 May 1969 at the Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada. | John Lennon

“Give Peace a Chance” is an anti-war song written by John Lennon, originally credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was recorded in a Montreal hotel room in 1969 with Yoko Ono and a small group of friends during their famous Bed-In for Peace. Released in July 1969 as a single by the Plastic Ono Band on Apple Records, it marked Lennon’s first solo release while he was still a Beatle. The song went on to become a defining anthem of the American anti-war movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, reaching No.