On This Day: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Debut 'Two Virgins' Gets Confiscated at the....

On January 2, 1969, more than 30,000 copies of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins were seized by police at Newark Airport in New Jersey. The album was confiscated since the cover photograph featured full frontal nudity violated pornography laws. Their debut release was the first of three experimental albums the two worked on during an all-night recording session on May 19, 1968, at Lennon’s Kenwood home, which ended in his then-wife Cynthia came home from a vacation in Greece to find them both sitting wearing matching white robes.

“After Yoko and I met, I didn’t realize I was in love with her,” said Lennon. “I was still thinking it was an artistic collaboration, as it were—producer and artist, right? My ex-wife was away, and Yoko came to visit me. Instead of making love, we went upstairs and made tapes. I had this room full of different tapes where I would write and make strange loops and things like that for the Beatles’ stuff. So we made a tape all night.”

Lennon continued, “She was doing her funny voices and I was pushing all different buttons on my tape recorder and getting sound effects. And then as the sun rose we made love and that was ‘Two Virgins.’”

Released in November 1968, the album became known more for its cover than Lennon and Ono’s music.

Source: americansongwriter.com/Tina Benitez-Eves

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