Albumet ’Two Virgins’ med John Lennon och Yoko Ono släpps i UK
Annons för utgivningen av albumet ’Unfinished Music No. 1 – Two Virgins’.
Albumet släpptes på Apple med katalognummer SAPCOR 2. Innehållet på albumet var detsamma på båda sidorna om Atlanten. Låtarna hade spelats in den 3 maj 1968 i Lennons före detta hem Kenwood i Weybridge.
Skivans releasedatum hade försents i flera månader med anledning av det kontroversiella skivomslaget med två helnakna personer – John Lennon och Yoko Ono. Detta album blev det andra som gavs ut på Apple Records efter George Harrisons album Wonderwall Music, som kom ut den 1 november i UK.
John Lennon:
Actually, the first record that would have been out on Apple would been Two Virgins if they hadn’t held it up. They stalled and they said this, that and the other. Being naive in lots of ways, I had no idea I was going to get slagging from the immediate family.
I thought maybe somebody out there will say something, but I was making a statement. It was as good as a song, it was better, you couldn’t say it better – pictures speak louder than words. There it was: beautiful statement.
Two Virgins distribuerades av Track Records i UK, after att EMI hade nekat att ge ut albumet. Men de gjorde mastrarna och pressade skivorna, för vilket de fakturerade den vanliga priset.
John Lennon:
Two Virgins was a big fight. It was held up for nine months. Joseph Lockwood was a nice, nice guy; but he sat down on a big table at the top of EMI with John and Yoko and told me he will do everything he can to help us, because we explained what it meant and why we were doing it. And he got me to sign him one – he’s got a signed edition of the very first one. Then, when we tried to put it out, he sent a personal note to everybody saying: ‘Don’t print it. Don’t put it out.’ So we couldn’t get the cover printed anywhere.
