page_title: Bed-Ins for Peace
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Bed-Ins for Peace / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bed-in for Peace de John Lennon et Yoko Ono au Musée Grévin Montréal
context_page_description: As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace, one at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, each of which were intended to be nonviolent protests against wars, and experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. The idea is derived from a "sit-in", in which a group of protesters remains seated in front of or within an establishment until they are evicted, arrested, or their demands are met.
  The public proceedings were filmed, and later turned into a documentary Bed Peace, which was made available for free on YouTube in August 2011 by Yoko Ono, as part of her website "Imagine Peace".
context_section_description: The event was referenced in the song "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis, in which lead singer sings "I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed / 'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head ". The latter lyric was supposedly said by Lennon during a taped conversation he had at his room at The Dakota.
  In the music video for the Marcy Playground 1999 song, "It's Saturday", the group finds their way to the bed of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their bed in.
  Linkin Park members Chester Bennington and Mr. Hahn imitated the incident in a photograph taken by Greg Watermann in their book From the Inside: Linkin Park's Meteora.
  In late 2006, Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Californian rock band Green Day, and his wife, Adrienne Armstrong, did a similar bed-in, featuring Billie Joe and Adrienne lying on the bed, with a poster above their heads saying "Make Love Not War" in Spanish.
  On Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, comedian Andy Daly exhibits a video clip showing that he has also attempted a bed in to protest the War in Iraq. Trying to mimic Lennon and Ono's original bed in, he climbs into the bed of an Asian woman, who pepper-sprays Daly.
  Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi made a homage to the Bed-in on the cover of their 2003 album Nice.
  American singer Jhené Aiko imitated the image with Childish Gambino of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their bed for her single "Bed Peace" off her 2013 EP Sail Out.
caption: Wax figures of the Lennon's Montreal Bed-In at Musée Grévin Montreal
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