John Lennon & Yoko Ono-Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968)


 

Artist: John Lennon & Yoko Ono


Label: Tetragrammaton/Apple

Format: LP

Catalog Number: T-5001

Year of Release: 1968

Country and Year of Edition: US 1985 bootleg?

Sell Price: $18.88

Sell Date: 9/9/24

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold  8/23/24 F/VG+ $11.84

Low: $7.00 G+/G+

Median: $28.33

Average: $32.70

High: $85.00

Current low price: $18.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 34

Have/Want: 1247/337

Where Sold:  Manito, IL

Time It Took To Sell:  12 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester That's Entertainment used

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C-

Sad To See It Go: No

My recollection of Two Virgins was that it was the least interesting of the 3 Avant-whatever records John & Yoko issued each one marking a significant event in their relationship.  This one being the first represented the relationship before consummation.  The second, Life With The Lions was Yoko's miscarriage.  The third was their commemorative expensively packaged Wedding Album.  .  You could say Double Fantasy/Milk and Honey/Seasons of Glass was the next trilogy.

Anyway the narrative of this one is that John's wife Cynthia was out of town and John had esteemed artist Yoko Ono drop by his home studio to fuck around on some new equipment.  They did this all night, then they sun came up and they weren't Two Virgins anymore.  Cynthia's came home to the new couple sitting in robes starting into each others eyes.  John gleefully made this a public tale.  

So off they went into the sunset where they lived in and out of the public eye for ever and after until the premature end.

The album had been bootlegged so heavily, I couldn't 100% confirm the pressing even with the outer groove matching the legit description.    I suspect with the cardstock of the cover and the super clean vinyl that it was the boot, but who knows. The "bag" that enveloped the record had fallen apart, just like Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door from the same "L" part of the collection. Despite this "bag," Capitol in it's day refused to distribute this album given the "pornographic" content.  By todays standards it's pretty innocuous genitals on the front, buttocks on the back.  

Mass exposure for the mass media and the masses that consume it.






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