“Give Peace a Chance” is an anti-war song written by John Lennon, originally credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was recorded in a Montreal hotel room in 1969 with Yoko Ono and a small group of friends during their famous Bed-In for Peace. Released in July 1969 as a single by the Plastic Ono Band on Apple Records, it marked Lennon’s first solo release while he was still a Beatle. The song went on to become a defining anthem of the American anti-war movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, reaching No.