Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions
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Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions is the second of three experimental albums of avant-garde music released 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. 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. The album was remastered in 1997. - Wikipedia
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If, as they suggested, their lives were their art, then this is, too. Maybe.
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Spill Magazine
This is an album full of pain, and it is clear.
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Uncut
2016 - It was a troubled phase in the couple’s lives, nonetheless.
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Sound OMH
I maintain that this album is a must for any outside music listener.
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Stranded Records
The most radical of provocative sound/art statements from John Lennon and Yoko Ono wouldn't arrive until the release of Unfinished Music Vol. 2: Life With The Lions.
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Headheritage
It is, in part, an indulgent, all-pervading racket where you occasionally sense John and Yoko having a good laugh at their public. But, by the looks of their expressions on the sleeve, by God they needed it.
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Nashville Public Library
2009 - Within the avant-garde canon Yoko Ono is not a witch to be feared, but a goddess to be revered.
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