Liner notes:
UNFINISHED MUSIC No. 2: LIFE WITH THE LIONS
SIDE ONE
"CAMBRIDGE 1969" (LENNON/ONO)
Published by Maclen Music Inc.
Performed by Yoko Ono, vocal, and John Lennon, guitar, with Mal Evans, watch, and two Johns (John Tchikai* saxophone, John Stevens✝ percussion) who emerge at the end of the piece.
Recorded live at Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge, England on March 2nd, 1969, with thanks to Anthony Barnett the producer of "A Natural Music Nothing Doing in London Concert."
*John Tchikai appears by courtesy of John Tchikai✝ John Stevens appears by courtesy of Marmalade Records
SIDE TWO
NO BED FOR BEATLE JOHN (LENNON/ONO)
BABY'S HEARTBEAT (LENNON/ONO)
TWO MINUTES SILENCE (LENNON/ONO)
RADIO PLAY (LENNON/ONO)
All Published by Apple Music Publishing Co., Inc.
Recorded on a cassette at Queen Charlotte Hospital, Second West Ward, Room 1, London, England, 4th/25th November, 1968
Front Photo by Susan Wood
Back Photo by permission of Daily Mirror
Cover Design by John Lennon/Yoko Ono
APPLE RECORDS • 3 SAVILE ROW • LONDON • W.1.
John & Yoko
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John Lennon: Vocal, guitar.
Yoko Ono: Vocal.
Other musicians:
Mal Evans: Watch.
John Tchicai: Saxophone.
John Stevens: Percussion.
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ReplyDeleteUnfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions is the second of three collaborative experimental albums of avant-garde music by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in May 1969 on Zapple, a sub label of Apple.
It was a successor to 1968's highly controversial Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, and was followed by the Wedding Album.
The album peaked in the United States at number 174, 50 places lower than the previous album.
The album, whose title is a play on words of the BBC Radio show Life with The Lyons, was recorded at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London and live at Cambridge University, in November 1968 and March 1969, respectively.
The Cambridge performance, to which Ono had been invited and to which she brought Lennon, was Lennon and Ono's second as a couple. A few of the album's tracks were previewed by the public, thanks to Aspen magazine.
Cover art by Kosh with front cover photo was taken by Susan Wood while Ono was bedridden in Room 1, Second West Ward, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital.
The back cover was a news photo of Lennon and Ono leaving Marylebone Police Station on 19 October 1968, after their arrest for hashish possession the previous day, at 34 Montagu Square, Lennon's residence.
The arrest later caused problems for Lennon with US immigration authorities. The back cover also carried a "quote" from Beatles producer George Martin: "No comment".
Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions was reissued through Rykodisc under the observation of Ono, with two bonus tracks, "Song for John" and "Mulberry", on 3 June 1997.
The album was reissued on LP, CD, and digitally by Secretly Canadian on November 11, 2016 with bonus tracks and rare photos.