John & Yoko with Derek Taylor at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel, Freeport, Bahamas, 25 May 1969. This film is one of the many extra features on the BluRay/DVD of the John & Yoko documentary 'Above Us Only Sky' - about the making of the Imagine album: John & Yoko had arrived in the Bahamas the previous day. They would decide to leave the following day for Toronto and ultimately Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal - closer and easier for the New York American press - where they began their famous weeklong Bed-In for Peace, culminating the writing and recording of 'Give Peace A Chance' on the 31st of May. John: We've been trying to get into the States to do a peace mission and get visas. We want to give acorns to Nixon. So the Bahamas are the best deal we could think of. We'll probably do a Bed-In down there like we did in Amsterdam. Our plan is simply to promote peace in a non-violent fashion, and the States needs it. It
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