John and Yoko held their first 'Bed-In' in the Amsterdam Hilton, from Tuesday, March 25th, 1965 - Monday, March 31st, 1965. In the words of the forthcoming single 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' having married in 'Gibraltar, near Spain' on 20th March and spent a few days 'honeymooning down by the Seine', the Lennons 'drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton' to continue their honeymoon by 'talking in our beds for a week...trying to get us some peace'. For as the world watched, boggle-eyed, the newly-weds set up, sat up and spoke up in the ninth-floor presidential suite of the Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam, espousing the peace message to the hundreds of press journalists and radio, TV and newsreel reporters who flocked to share their mattress for a few minutes...