Musician and artist Jen Goma goes on a 48-hour journey to find and interview someone who was in one of the hotel suites during one of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Bed-Ins for Peace in 1969.

This episode features interviews with: 

• Jerry Levitan


• 
  Nico Koster 


• Hana van der Kolk


• Jillian Goma


• Ethan Kiermaier


• Casey Coleman


• Louise Mittelman


• Betta de Boer van der Kolk


• Linda at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Montreal

CREDITS

‘You Had To Be There’ is a Hi Barr production. 

Created by Hi Barr.

“John Lennon + Yoko Ono: Bed-ins for Peace” was written & hosted by Jen Goma.

Produced by Julia Thompson and Web Barr.

Story Produced by Julia Thompson.

Edit, Sound Mix and engineering by Teeny Lieberson.

Original score by Teeny Lieberson.  

Artwork created by Dylan Lathrop. 

Special Thanks to:

• Teeny Lieberson


• River Ramirez


• Greg Saunier


• Michael Azerrad


• Jess Pinkham


• Sophie Tintori


• Alex Toth


• Satomi Matsuzaki


• David Newgarden


• Michele Guzzo at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Montreal


• Natalye St. Lucia


• Devika Wickremesinghe


• Ryan Newmyer

Special thanks to our parents, friends and chosen family. And most importantly, thank you to the artists who’ve inspired us because they had to do it.

Correction: Betta de Boer van der Kolk (and not Betta de Oer) is helping to translate the interview with Nico Koster.

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