Give Peace a Chance

"Give Peace a Chance"
"Give Peace a Chance"
Single by Plastic Ono Band
B-side	"Remember Love" (Yoko Ono)
Released	4 July 1969 (UK); 7 July 1969 (US)
Recorded	1 June 1969, Room 1742, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genre	Folk rock; pop rock; children’s music; protest song;
Length	4:54
Label	Apple
Songwriter(s)	John Lennon (originally credited to Lennon–McCartney)
Producer(s)	John Lennon; Yoko Ono; André Perry;
Plastic Ono Band singles chronology

"Give Peace a Chance" is an anti-war song written by John Lennon (originally credited to Lennon–McCartney), and recorded with the participation of a small group of friends in a performance with Yoko Ono in a hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Released as a single in July 1969 by the Plastic Ono Band on Apple Records, it is the first solo single issued by Lennon, released while he was still a member of the Beatles, and became an anthem of the American anti-war movement during the 1970s. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the British singles chart.