Big headlines in Montreal this weekend, but maybe not everywhere else: Today marks the 50th anniversary of John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's 1969 Bed-In for Peace.
Held at Montreal's downtown Queen Elizabeth Hotel, the Bed-In produced a new song ("All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Chance"), publicity for the Lennons, some conversations about the fruitlessness of war, and, we're sorry to say, not much else. A half-century later, there's still violence and suffering on a grand scale.
Still, Lennon was brilliant at writing lyrics about the peace that he couldn't achieve. One of our favorite holiday songs is "And So This Is Christmas (War Is Over)," and of course our most cherished of all Lennon's oeuvre is "Imagine."
So on this Memorial Day eve, we'll end with that. We cats miss John Lennon, who left us way too soon. And we PURR.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
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