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Amerigo Vespucci

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Mon Jan 2, 2012, 02:53 PM Jan 2012

January 2, 1969: John and Yoko's "Two Virgins" seized by N.J. authorities over "pornographic" cover

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/week-in-rock-history-john-and-yokos-two-virgins-is-seized-as-pornography-20120102

January 2, 1969: A shipment of John and Yoko's Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins is seized by New Jersey authorities, who deem its cover "pornographic"
After an all-night session of avant-garde jamming in 1968, John Lennon and Yoko Ono decided to release the recordings under the name Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, the title relating to their feelings of innocence in the world around them and also the consummation of their relationship after that evening. However, New Jersey authorities had a different response to the album art: they found it pornographic.

Two Virgins' cover art famously featured a full-length nude photograph of the couple. Shortly after its release, police seized 30,000 copies of the record at Newark Airport in New Jersey, preventing their sale. Following this, the couple's disc of discordant sound and white noise was sold with a brown paper sleeve obscuring the stark cover, which did not help the disc's general reception. Ironically, some listeners found the raucous melee an artistically immature expression.

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January 2, 1969: John and Yoko's "Two Virgins" seized by N.J. authorities over "pornographic" cover (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Jan 2012 OP
and now teens are 'sexting" pics of each others crotches for the whole world to see. nt msongs Jan 2012 #1
Yes, but without white noise and atonal avante garde music in the background Richardo Jan 2012 #2
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