Alanis Morissette is spreading the Christmas cheer with her family in the music video of her cover of the classic John Lennon Christmas song, “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).”
The song, released in 1971 by the John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band, came after years of peace activism by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. After they got married in March 1969, the couple spent their honeymoon in an Amsterdam hotel and staged “bed-ins” to protest wars. Footage of their bed-in in Montreal was used in a documentary called “Bed Peace” by Ono.
Morissette’s video is inspired by those bed-ins: clips include her and her family snuggled together, with the poster “bed peace” hanging on their window, akin to th…
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