Wednesday Video Spotlight: "The Sound of Peace" by Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd and the students of ACM@UCO

In this March 16, 1972 photo, John Lennon and Yoko Ono leave a brief deportation hearing in New York at the offices of the Department of Immigration and Naturalization. Ono celebrated her 80th birthday on Feb. 18. (AP file)

As previously reported, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus rolled into the Oklahoma City metro last week for a series of activities at the University of Central Oklahoma’s Edmond campus and the university’s Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM@UCO) in Bricktown.

Since 1998, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus has provided free, hands-on programs to millions of young people throughout the U.S. and Canada. Working together with educators and some of the biggest names in music, the Lennon Bus encourages students to play music, write songs, shoot digital photos, engineer recording sessions and produce video projects using the latest audio, video, still camera and live sound equipment.

In honor of the 80th birthday of Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow, The Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, ACM@UCO students and local folks, created the otherworldly song “The Sound of Peace” and its equally psychedelic video:

-BAM