Give Peace a Chance

"Give Peace a Chance"
Single by Plastic Ono Band
B-side"Remember Love" (Yoko Ono)
Released4 July 1969 (UK)
7 July 1969 (US)
Recorded1 June 1969, Room 1742, Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genre
Length4:54
LabelApple
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"
(1969)
"Cold Turkey"
(1969)

"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.