Remastered from Original Tapes by Sean Lennon!
Life With The Lions is the 1969 followup to Two Virgins. The album is the sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It's when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording collaboration, and something closer to a performative documentary, a declaration of "Our life and our love is our art - every nitty, gritty part of it.
"John Lennon and Yoko Ono's second collaborative album consists of five tracks: all of side one is taken up by 'Cambridge 1969,' a live recording at Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambridge of Lennon playing an electric guitar backup to Ono's singing and screaming. Side two includes an a cappella rendering by Ono of 'No Bed for Beatle John,' which discusses the refusal of a hospital to give Lennon a bed so he could stay during his wife's troubled pregnancy; 'Baby's Heartbeat,' which is what it says it is; 'Two Minutes Silence' in commemoration of Ono's miscarriage, which is also what it says it is; and 'Radio Play,' 12 minutes of a radio dial being turned back and forth to pick up random stations. If, as they suggested, their lives were their art, then this is, too. Maybe." - William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com
Features:
Limited time download card with bonus tracks
Remastered from original tapes by Sean Lennon
Made in England
Selections:
Side A:
1. Cambridge 1969
Side B:
1. No Bed for Beatle John
2. Baby's Heartbeat
3. Two Minutes Silence
4. Radio Play
Life With The Lions is the 1969 followup to Two Virgins. The album is the sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It's when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording collaboration, and something closer to a performative documentary, a declaration of "Our life and our love is our art - every nitty, gritty part of it.
"John Lennon and Yoko Ono's second collaborative album consists of five tracks: all of side one is taken up by 'Cambridge 1969,' a live recording at Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambridge of Lennon playing an electric guitar backup to Ono's singing and screaming. Side two includes an a cappella rendering by Ono of 'No Bed for Beatle John,' which discusses the refusal of a hospital to give Lennon a bed so he could stay during his wife's troubled pregnancy; 'Baby's Heartbeat,' which is what it says it is; 'Two Minutes Silence' in commemoration of Ono's miscarriage, which is also what it says it is; and 'Radio Play,' 12 minutes of a radio dial being turned back and forth to pick up random stations. If, as they suggested, their lives were their art, then this is, too. Maybe." - William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com
Features:
Limited time download card with bonus tracks
Remastered from original tapes by Sean Lennon
Made in England
Selections:
Side A:
1. Cambridge 1969
Side B:
1. No Bed for Beatle John
2. Baby's Heartbeat
3. Two Minutes Silence
4. Radio Play
