Dennis Kane · Oct 21, 2018
Give Peace on Ice a Chance
I was sent the photos below of John and Yoko and a Habs sweater back in 2013, from what I assumed was during the couple’s seven-day Bed-In for Peace in Montreal in 1969.
I hadn’t seen these pictures before and I was blown away. But it turned out I was wrong about the Bed-In part. You’ll see why further on down.
It looks like John is holding a sweater bearing number 5. Bernie Geoffrion wore number five from 1951 to ’64, and in 1968 Gilles Tremblay owned the number for two years, retiring after the ’69 season. So it was probably one of these, I thought, but I was wrong about that too!
Lennon, being a huge hockey fan of course, said the following; (Not really but humour me).