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Without wanting to be too crass about it, one would imagine there were few more effective ways of selling an album in 1968 than sticking a starkers John Lennon <\/a>on the cover. <\/p>\n While Beatlemania had long since died down, especially after the whole \u201cbigger than Jesus\u201d fiasco, the band were still comfortably the biggest in the world. Lennon in particular was still one of its most famous people, and what\u2019s more, the man who was introduced to America on Ed Sullivan with the caption \u201cSorry girls, he\u2019s married\u201d was no longer married. <\/p>\n The marriage between Cynthia Powell and John Lennon had always been an abrasive one. The particulars of it all are for a different article than this one, but suffice to say, their divorce in 1968 had been a long time coming. The straw that broke the camel\u2019s back was not so much Cynthia\u2019s discovery of Lennon\u2019s affair with conceptual artist Yoko Ono as his complete antipathy towards hiding it. While Cynthia had been holidaying in Greece, Lennon invited Ono over to stay the night. <\/p>\n Instead of doing the kind of things that paramours do, Ono stumbled upon a collection of home recordings that Lennon had made. You see, Lennon had initially met Ono because of his affinity for dense, conceptual art and his way of making it was to record ambient, experimental music far too out there for his Beatles bandmates to ever consider putting on the records. Yet<\/a>. Ono was completely enraptured by them and insisted that they spend the rest of the night making a collection of their own recordings before doing\u2026 what paramours do as the sun came up. <\/p>\n Whatever you may say about the nature of John Lennon and Yoko Ono\u2019s relationship, one thing that you cannot deny is their artistic chemistry. The two of them were as in sync with each other as Lennon had been with Paul McCartney a decade earlier, but in completely different mediums. The two of them put all their out-there ideas into these recordings, and by the time Cynthia unexpectedly arrived home the next day, she found the two lovebirds sitting cross-legged on the floor, staring into each other\u2019s eyes. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>Why did John Lennon and Yoko Ono choose the cover of this album? <\/p>\n