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The Ballad of John & Yoko

Carol Clerk, Uncut, September 2003

IT'S THE summer of 1969, and John and Yoko are in bed in room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal. They are in their Year of Peace, this is their third and most famous bed-in, and they have been confronted by an abusive visitor.

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