Limited Edition poster commemorating John Lenn and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace. From the original drawing done by John Lennon in 1969.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Poster celebrated their marriage with a Bed-In for peace. The work is taken from the original Bag One Portfolio first shown in London in 1970. Release was authorized by Yoko Ono on behalf of the John Lennon Estate. Knowing their marriage would be a huge press event, Lennon and Ono decided to use the publicity to promote world peace. They spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel for a week between March 25 and 31, inviting the world's press into their hotel room.
The Amsterdam bed-in was greeted by fans, and received a great deal of press coverage. Following the event, when asked if he thought the bed-in had been successful, Lennon became rather frustrated.
He insisted that the failure of the press to take the couple seriously was part of what he and Ono wanted: It's part of our policy not to be taken seriously. Our opposition, whoever they may be, in all manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor.
Ono also earned controversy in the Jewish community for saying during the press conference that Jewish women could have changed Adolf Hitler by becoming his girlfriend and sleeping with him for 10 days. It was acknowledged that some Nazi officials, including Nazi "First Lady" Magda Goebbels, had at one point in their lives had Jewish lovers. After their nonconformist artistic expressions, such as the nude cover of the Two Virgins album, the press were expecting them to be having sex, but instead the couple were just sitting in bed, wearing pajamas-in Lennon's words "like angels"-talking about peace with signs over their bed reading "Hair Peace" and "Bed Peace".