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In Bed With Lennon & Yoko
“It was all an accident ‘ow it ‘appened,” said Monsieur Arruda, the Duty Manager at Montreal’s prestigious Queen Elizabeth Hotel on Rene-Levesque West. “No one expected John Lennon to show up and certainly not with Yoko Ono.”
But that’s exactly what happened on May 26th 1969.
“A local music producer ‘eard zat John Lennon and Yoko Ono were on their way to Canada,” he continued in his Quebec French accent, “but wen ee realised zat no one was around from Sony Records to greet zem at zee airport, he went straight there and pretended to be from Sony.”
And our would-be hero – certainly from the Queen Elizabeth Hotel’s perspective – asked Mr Lennon if he had made a reservation in the city. Apparently the Beatles supremo had not so the producer – with little rhyme or reason – knew...
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