BEATLES LENNON RARE UK MONO TWO VIRGINS LP MINT COND

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Jul 24, 2011 Sold Date

Jul 17, 2011 Start Date

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ONE OF THE RAREST RECORDS IN THE WORLD. A TRULY STUNNING COPY OF THE RARE JOHN LENNON UK VERSION IN MONO OF APPLE CAT NO APCOR 2 ' JOHN & YOKO'S 'UNFINISHED MUSIC -TWO VIRGINS' LP

THE VINYL ON BOTH SIDES ARE IN COMPLETE MINT CONDITION.

THE COVER IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH A SMALL SLIGHT CREASE IN BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER, AND SOME NORMAL WEAR BUT IS CLEAN AND BRIGHT AND RETAINS ITS WHITE COLOUR

THE RECORD COMES WITH ITS ORIGINAL BLACK INNER SLEEVE.

WILL SHIP INTERNATIONALLY

John lennon having mixed the stereo versions asked for the small number of mono copies to be destroyed which made the mono copies already in circulation is extremely rare. The record was distributed by TRACKS as EMI refused to due to the controversial cover.

OTHER NOTES

Label Apple Catalogue No. APCOR 2 Release date 29th November 1968 Total time 29:07 U.K. Album Chart Detail : Did NOT Chart. Detail : John's first solo album release, and first of his "experimental" outings.
Credited to John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

The original premise of the "Unfinished Music" series was that John and Yoko were going to chronicle their lives together on record release, this is the first of these.

Recorded one May morning between midnight and dawn in 1968 at John's Kenwood mansion in Weybridge (probably Sunday 19th May 1968). John's wife, Cynthia, had gone on holiday to Greece with Jennie Boyd and Magic Alex. Yoko had expressed an interest in John's avant-garde recordings using his home recording system, and they decided to make an album together.
So, John's first recording venture without his fellow Beatles was this wierd album of sound effects and bodily noises.

More interesting than the "music" (sorry, John) was the album cover. The naked photographs were taken in the basement of Ringo's gaff in Montague Square, London in early October 1968. There was no way John was going to allow a professional photographer to take the pictures as he was too embarrased, so he set the camera up using a delayed shutter release and took them himself.
That was the easy bit ... next was convincing the other Beatles to approve the project ... that took almost six months !
And even though Paul was strongly against the sleeve, he still contributed with a one line sleeve note which reads:

"When two great Saints meet, it is a humbling experience. The long battles to prove he was a Saint."
Next obstacle was the record company, who refused release unless the pictures were changed. But, eventually the album was distributed by Track records in the U.K. (as catalogue number 613 012) ... under one condition ... that it was wrapped in a brown paper bag.
But even with approval, the record company printers wouldn`t print it, and many record shops refused to stock it. Even the music press opposed it and no editor would accept any of the adverts. It was also the first solo Beatles album to be deleted by E.M.I. ... although it was re-instated into the catalogue in January 1975 when being distributed by Charmdale. But, by 1978 it was deleted again.

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