Peace, love, lyrics and loot
Today, Christie’s auctions a memento from John Lennon: his scrawled lyrics for ?Give Peace a Chance.? Lennon gave the page to then-16-year-old Gail Renard in 1969 after she and a friend climbed up a fire escape to see him and Yoko Ono during their Montreal ?bed-in.?
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