“The newspapers said,
"Say, what you're doing in bed?"”

—  John Lennon

I said "We're only trying to get us some peace."
"Ballad of John and Yoko" (1969), referring to his "bed-in" honeymoon of March 1969.
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English singer and songwriter 1940–1980

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