The Shocking & Censored Covers

John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968) One spring night in what they called "the glow of love," John Lennon and Yoko Ono made a series of wacky avant-garde recordings before consummating their relationship for the first time. Then they posed in the nude, using a time-released shutter. Then they set out to release their noise montage as an album with the nude photos on front and back. All hell broke loose. A small run was released in Britain and the U.S. on obscure labels with brown paper covers, and thousands of these were confiscated as indecent. The artists said the title reflected that they were "two innocents, lost in a world gone mad." -- JC