Cover
The couple used a time-delay camera to take nude photographs of themselves for the album's cover. The front cover showed them frontally nude including Lennon's penis and Ono's breasts and pudendal cleft, and both Lennon's and Ono's natural pubic hair, while the rear cover showed them nude from behind including their buttocks. (The photos were taken not at Kenwood, but at Ringo Starr's basement apartment at Montagu Square, where Lennon and Ono stayed later that year.) The cover provoked an outrage, prompting distributors to sell the album in a plain brown wrapper. Copies of the album were impounded as obscene in several jurisdictions (including 30,000 copies in New Jersey). Lennon commented that the uproar seemed to have less to do with the explicit nudity, and more to do with the fact that the pair were rather unattractive (and the photo unflattering; Lennon described it later as a picture of "two slightly overweight ex-junkies").
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