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A visitor walks by the sand figures featuring members of the former pop group “The Beatles”, at the sand sculpture festival “Sand World” in Luebeck-Travemuende, northern Germany, on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007. The festival under the motto “A voyage through time” shows celebrities and important works of the past, all made out of sand. The show ends on September 2. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono are famous for showing off naked skin in the name of peace, love and contemporary art, but the widow of the late singer has revealed they were actually shy about being snapped with nothing on.
Yoko has divulged that the renowned Two Virgins photo, in which the couple posed stark naked side-by-side, wearing nothing between them but hippy beads, specs and big hair, was taken in private.
The artist said that her late husband was coy about shedding his clothes for his first nude picture, which was to become the cover of the couple’s 1968 experimental album.
The image fuelled anger amongst fans, resulting in the album being sold in brown paper bags and even confiscated as obscenity in some parts of the United States.
“John was no exhibitionist either,” the Daily Express quoted Yoko, as saying.
“He took that Two Virgins photo with a timer and cleared everyone out of the room so we could do it in secret. It was so funny because the whole world would eventually see it anyway,” she added.
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A batch of previously unseen photos of legendary pop combo The Beatles will be unveiled for the first time ever at an exhibition in Norwich.
The city’s St Giles’ Street Gallery has secured a world scoop by obtaining never-seen-before images of the most famous band ever recording their most famous album nearly 40 years ago.
Taken at London’s Abbey Road Studios in 1967, the photos include the Fab Four relaxing during the recording of the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band LP and eating lunch with producer George Martin.
They were taken by Sunday Times photographer Frank Herrmann hours before the band posed for the cover of Sgt Pepper, and were previously thought to have been lost.
But thanks to modern technology, the shots, which show the group happily drinking tea, chatting and taking a break from recording, have been restored from the original contact sheets.
The gallery will exhibit the 24 original black and white prints from June 1 to September 1, as well as a selection of Mr Herrmann’s photos which were used in the limited-edition Summer of Love book.
Photographer David Koppel, who founded the gallery and whose friendship with Mr Herrmann helped secure the exhibition, said: “The photos are really amazing and there’s been a huge amount of interest in them already. My favourite is the one where George (Harrison) is pouring a cup of tea, which shows all the four Beatles and George Martin.”
The images of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and George Martin were taken when Mr Herrmann visited Abbey Road studios on March 30.
Twelve of those images were made into original artwork for the Summer of Love book, but the rest remain unseen.
Books and prints will be available for sale for the duration of the exhibition.
The gallery was founded after exhibiting successfully in its former incarnation, Frames of Norwich. The building was formerly the St Giles Post Office which closed in 2004 as part of a cull of branches across Norfolk.
The gallery is open Monday to Saturday, from 10am to 6pm, admission free.
For more information, go to www.sgsgallery.com
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