YOKO wanted for Bed-In!

More than 40 years after John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton, a Beatles tribute act is to celebrate what would have been Lennon’s 70th birthday by recreating the Bed-In in Bournemouth.

But they need a Yoko.

Sgt Pepper’s Only Dart Board Band, who restaged the famous Abbey Road sleeve last year and found themselves on News At Ten, are to restage the Bed-In in Bournemouth on October 2 and are appealing for a Yoko to lie next to their John.

The event will be filmed for television.

“When we did the Abbey Road thing for the Beatles Fan Club we were amazed that something like a thousand people turned up, it was crazy,” says the Dart Board Band’s John.

“Then we turned up on News At Ten. The fan club guys were saying they’d done events with actual Beatles that caused less of a fuss!”

The band are headlining a special Lennon at 70 show at Mr Kyps on October 10, the day after John’s actual birthday.

They’ll be joined by reformed ’90s indie rockers Dodgy, whose drummer Mathew Priest is studying at Bournemouth University; James Warren of ’70s rock legends Stackridge whose The Man in the Bowler Hat album was recorded with Beatles producer George Martin; Quebec band Mosquito-B and The Oz, a band from St Petersburg who have released an album of punk covers of John Lennon’s more political songs Would-be Yokos are being invited to email John through the website sgtpeppertribute.co.uk There’s no word if she would be expected to subsequently split up the band.

• Look out for a special feature on John Lennon at 70 in the Magazine with your Echo on Saturday, October 9.