Give me a chance

May 1969. As a sixteen-year-old, Gail Renard joined John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their week-long bed-in for peace in a hotel in Montreal, Canada.

She looked after YokoÆs five-year-old daughter, helped to find tambourines and joined in the first recording of "Give Peace a Chance" with Timothy Leary, the Smothers Brothers and various other celebs.

John looked after her û sending her home every night to her mother who had spoken to him on the phone and insisted that there were to be no drugs or sex while her daughter was around.

It was JohnÆs faith in Gail's ability which directly lead to her later success as a writer, and he helped her to secure her first paid submission û an interview with him for the Beatles' magazine.