JOHN & YOKO WEDDING 20 March 1969: John & Yoko get married and begin their lifelong campaign for Peace. “We decided that if we were going to do anything like get married that we would dedicate it to peace. And during that period, because we are what we are, it evolved that somehow we [...]
Forty years after their landmark peace initiative at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, John and Yoko are back, with a major exhibition of John Lennon’s art work on view at the Hilton Amsterdam from 20 – 22 March, 2009. The exhibition is being held under the umbrella of a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the [...]
Beatles legend Lennon and his Japanese wife Ono famously spent two weeks in bed in Amsterdam and Montreal during March and May 1969 in protest at the Vietnam war. The first stage of their bed-in at the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton came just days after they married in Gibraltar. Madeley and Finnegan recreated [...]
Yoko Ono discusses the artistic life of John Lennon and his evolution as an icon I always knew I was going to make it, but I wasn’t sure in what manifestation,” said John Lennon in a 1980 Playboy interview. “I used to read the reviews of books and art and music before I ever put [...]
