Suite 1742

I just wanted to share a bit of trivia with you.  As I've been preparing a video on Montreal for the astr.org website, I discovered that room 1742 of the conference hotel in Montreal is the site of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "bed-in" and where they recorded "Give Peace a Chance." 

I've been in London for the past week, and in the past couple of days, I interviewed Sandy Craig and Michelene Wandor (transcripts of these interviews will appear in the coming weeks on this blog).  Michelene and I talked about the creative atmosphere in the UK the 1970s, and she and I both found it notable that the Lennon/Ono event should have happened in the same place where we are going to discuss the impact of the creative chaos of the 1970s and 80s.