In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono found a nonviolent way to protest the Vietnam War. For their honeymoon, the newlywedded Lennon and Ono would remain in bed for a week, with media invited into their hotel room. The first “Bed-in Protest” was in Amsterdam at the Hilton Hotel, and the second was in Montreal at the Queen Elizabeth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While in Montreal, counterculture figure and LSD advocate Timothy Leary visited the hotel room. Leary planned to run for Governor of California in 1970, against future US President Ronald Reagan, and wanted John Lennon to come up with a song out of his campaign slogan “Come Together – Join The Party!” Lennon agreed, and the two parted ways. Lennon took this phrase and, in fact, wrote a song. But not the song that Leary had anticipated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over a span of three weeks in August and September 1980, David Sheff interviewed John Lennon for Playboy<\/em> magazine, a mere three months before Lennon’s death. This issue of Playboy<\/em> hit the newsstands just days before Lennon’s death in 1980 and can be found in David Sheff’s book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n