This song is ubiquitous this time of year but never gets old. “Just give peace a chance” was the response John Lennon gave a member of the press when asked what he and Yoko Ono hoped to achieve with their “bed-ins for peace" in Amsterdam and Montreal for their honeymoon. “Give Peace A Chance” was recorded on four-track in Room 1742 at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel on June 1, 1969 at the time of the Vietnam War. It features Lennon and Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers on acoustic guitar and Ono on handclaps, tambourine and backing vocals. In the room were journalists and such celebs as Timothy Leary, Petula Clark and Allen Ginsberg. Buy it here. — K.B.