Video: 'Beatles member John Lennon and new wife Yoko Ono stage a bed-in in Amsterdam' (Mar. 25, 1969, at 0:34)

(Tuesday, March 25, 1969, 2:00 p.m. Central Europe Time; during the Vietnam War) — Five days after they married in Gibraltar, John Lennon of The Beatles and his avant-garde artist wife Yoko Ono began a bed-in this afternoon in room 902 at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel, using the inevitable publicity generated by news of their wedding to promote world peace.

After controversy over the cover of their album Two Virgins, on which they appeared naked, some reporters believed that it was an invitation to watch them have sex.

Video: 'John and Yoko in Amsterdam, 1969'

Instead, they found the pair just sitting in bed, wearing pajamas “like two angels in bed, with flowers all around us, and peace and love on our heads,” as Lennon would later say, talking about peace with signs over their bed reading “Hair Peace” and “Bed Peace.”

Video: 'John Lennon en Yoko Ono in bed: Hilton Hotel (1969)'