Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions

by John Lennon, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono

Overview

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. [Unfinished Music, No. 2 was re-released on CD in 2016.] ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	11/11/2016
Label:	Chimera Music / Secretly Canadian
UPC:	0656605029023

Tracks

1. Cambridge 1969
2. No Bed for Beatle John
3. Baby's Heartbeat
4. Two Minutes Silence
5. Radio Play
6. Song For John
7. Mulberry

Album Credits

Performance Credits

John Lennon   Primary Artist,Guitar (Acoustic),Multi Instruments,Vocals,Guitar
Yoko Ono   Primary Artist,Wind,Multi Instruments,Vocals
John Lennon & Yoko Ono   Primary Artist
John Stevens   Guest Artist,Percussion
John Tchicai   Guest Artist,Saxophone

Technical Credits

John Lennon   Cover Design,Producer,Composer
Anthony Barnett   Producer
Yoko Ono   Composer,Producer,Performer,Cover Design
George Marino   Remastering
Mal Evans   Unknown Contributor Role
Cindy Nelson   Design
Susan Wood   Photography