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'''''Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins''''' was an experimental album released by ] and ] in ]. The result of an all night session of musical experimentation; John and Yoko's debut album is known not only for its content, but also for its cover. The couple used a time delay camera to take nude photographs of themselves, the front cover displayed them frontally nude, while the rear cover featured them from behind. '''''Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins''''' was an experimental album released by ] and ] in ]. The result of an all night session of musical experimentation; John and Yoko's debut album is known not only for its content, but also for its cover. The couple used a time delay camera to take nude photographs of themselves, the front cover displayed them frontally nude, while the rear cover featured them from behind.


''Two Virgins'' was the first LP released under the ] label. It was distributed by ] in the ] and ] in the ]. ''Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins'' was the second album released under the ] label, after ]'s '']''. It was distributed by ] in the ] and ] in the ] because ] in the UK and ] in the US wouldn't handle it.


The cover provoked an outrage, prompting distributors to sell the album in a brown wrapper. Copies of the album were impounded as obscenity in several jurisdictions. Lennon wryly commented that the uproar seemed to have less to do with the explicit nudity, and more to do with the fact that the pair were rather unattractive. Nevertheless, the taboo breaking album cover was perhaps the first time that any male celebrity of any consequence had exposed himself so thoroughly to the public, with the obvious exception of ] and ] in ''Women in Love''. The cover provoked an outrage, prompting distributors to sell the album in a brown wrapper. Copies of the album were impounded as obscenity in several jurisdictions. Lennon wryly commented that the uproar seemed to have less to do with the explicit nudity, and more to do with the fact that the pair were rather unattractive. Nevertheless, the taboo breaking album cover was perhaps the first time that any male celebrity of any consequence had exposed himself so thoroughly to the public, with the obvious exception of ] and ] in ''Women in Love''.


''Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins'' never charted in the UK, but managed to reach #124 in the US in early ]. ''Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins'' never charted in the UK, but managed to reach #124 in the US.


In ], the album was reissued by ] with additional tracks. ''Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins'' was reissued by ] in ] with an additional bonus track, "Remember Love", the B-Side to "Give Peace A Chance".


⚫ ==Track listing==


All sections by ] and ].


⚫ ==Track listing==
#"Two Virgins Section 1" #"Two Virgins Section 1"
#"Together" #"Together"

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Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins was an experimental album released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1968. The result of an all night session of musical experimentation; John and Yoko's debut album is known not only for its content, but also for its cover. The couple used a time delay camera to take nude photographs of themselves, the front cover displayed them frontally nude, while the rear cover featured them from behind.

Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins was the second album released under the Apple Records label, after George Harrison's Wonderwall Music. It was distributed by Track Records in the UK and Tetragrammaton in the USA because E.M.I. in the UK and Capitol Records in the US wouldn't handle it.

The cover provoked an outrage, prompting distributors to sell the album in a brown wrapper. Copies of the album were impounded as obscenity in several jurisdictions. Lennon wryly commented that the uproar seemed to have less to do with the explicit nudity, and more to do with the fact that the pair were rather unattractive. Nevertheless, the taboo breaking album cover was perhaps the first time that any male celebrity of any consequence had exposed himself so thoroughly to the public, with the obvious exception of Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love.

Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins never charted in the UK, but managed to reach #124 in the US.

Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins was reissued by Rykodisc in 1997 with an additional bonus track, "Remember Love", the B-Side to "Give Peace A Chance".


Track listing

  1. "Two Virgins Section 1"
  2. "Together"
  3. "Two Virgins Section 2"
  4. "Two Virgins Section 3"
  5. "Two Virgins Section 4"
  6. "Two Virgins Section 5"
  7. "Two Virgins Section 6"
  8. "Hushabye Hushabye"
  9. "Two Virgins Section 7"
  10. "Two Virgins Section 8"
  11. "Two Virgins Section 9"
  12. "Two Virgins Section 10"
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