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 also is 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. [The 1997 CD reissue adds two bonus tracks: a previously unreleased version of
Ono's "Song for John," and the previously unreleased "Mulberry," which is nine minutes of
Yoko's vocal improv backed by careening, atonal guitar runs.]
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William Ruhlmann, Rovi