Bez from The Happy Mondays is having a bed-in to protest fracking

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Bez has gone to bed.

The Happy Mondays dancer, percussionist and Celebrity Big Brother alumnus is staging a Lennon-esque bed-in all week this week in protest against fracking.

Bez took to his bed with girlfriend Firouzeh Razavi in the Brewery Hotel in central London Monday.

Inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous protest against the Vietnam War in 1969, he's using the week to voice his concern about the controversial process of fracking.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, allows companies to extract gas from shale by blasting water in the rocks. The process has faced fierce criticism due to its effects on the environment and Bez was one of hundreds who turned out to protest outside Lancashire County Hall in Preston last month against fracking tests.

"No one in Britain wants fracking. But the government is, against the will of the people, trying to force it upon us all. And we're not having it," he said ahead of the event.

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Bez's protest is reminiscent of John Lennon's famous bed-in against the Vietnam War. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

"We’re going to start a revolution from our bed," he promised this week.

‘We’re facing last orders in the last chance saloon when it comes to climate change. We’ve got a few months to make a difference before the election."

Earlier this year, Bez launched his own Reality Party ahead of the general election in May, hoping to become Salford's next MP. However, the party has since been de-registered after falling foul of Electoral Commission rules stating it sounded too similar to The Realists' Party.

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