McCartney Times

There can be no doubt that, by 1969, John Lennon had reached a new phase in his life. Already beginning to ween himself off The Beatles hype, despite being a year or so away from officially disbanding the group, Lennon had found a new muse in Yoko Ono and a cherished new sense of experimentation. It saw the songwriter dive into some of his most avant-garde work, including the album Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins.

The first dabble in the expansive and creative world Lennon and Ono would provide for one another, the album charted on the US Billboard chart and saw the Beatle step away for the Fab Four more permanently than ever before. Recorded in a single night, the album has always been typified by one Lennon quote: “It was midnight when we finished, and then we made love at dawn. It was very beautiful.”

The album may well have found good favour with Lennon’s fans, but it wasn’t the same case for the authorities in New Jersey’s Newark airport who seized 30,000 copies of the album as it landed from Apple Records. It wasn’t the unusual songs and sonic structure on the LP that offended them but the cover.

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