“Give Peace A Chance” and “Hare Krishna” go viral on European radio once again.
John Lennon’s pacifist anthem again this Friday sounded throughout Europe on the airways. At the request of Berlin Public Radio, around 160 public radio stations from 28 European countries simultaneously played “Give Peace a Chance”, the song Lennon composed in 1969 against the Vietnam War.
The song, recorded in room 1742 on June 1, 1969, had its obvious starting point in Lennon’s response to war. These words haunted his mind, he repeated them to himself until he found music in them, and then it became a message for a world.
The recording session was attended by the Hare Krishna devotees as well as several celebrities, including Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Petula Clark. Lennon played acoustic guitar, alongside him, Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers also played guitar. Kyoko Chan Cox Ono, the little daughter of Yoko Ono, participated with a tambourine. The song was released as a single with Yoko Ono’s “Remember Love” on the side on July 4, 1969, in England and three days later in the United States.
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