History
Two Virgins failed to chart in the UK (and only 5000 British copies were ever pressed), but managed to reach #124 in the US.
The album was reissued in the US and Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. While the American reissues were of inferior quality, the Japanese pressings were made on virgin vinyl and enclosed in rice paper inner sleeves. One US edition from 1984, on the Apple label and claiming to be distributed by Tetragrammaton (the original US distributor) was not mastered from the original tape, but merely transferred from another LP copy with audible surface noise. A CD edition from the same vinyl-transfer source was issued in 1991 by Creative Sounds Ltd. in the US, claiming an association with Tetragrammaton on the cover.
The album was officially reissued from a proper remaster on Rykodisc in 1997 as part of a series of Yoko Ono reissues, with an additional bonus track — "Remember Love", Ono's B-side to "Give Peace a Chance". This edition is slightly edited; it is missing about a minute of audio from the end of each side. The 1997 CD edition was also issued in Japan by Video Arts.
Actress Sissy Spacek, using the pseudonym Rainbo, recorded the song "John, You Went Too Far This Time" about the album cover. The song is occasionally played on Dr. Demento's radio show.
A recording of "Together", written by George Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, is heard in the background. "Together" was originally a no. 1 pop hit by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra in 1928, featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet.
Read more about this topic: Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins
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