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the ballad of john and yoko.

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Yoko Ono, AD for Bagwear (1966)

#obsessed with these!!!!#apologies for the bits of my reflection you can see.... it was a nightmare to photograph #yoko ono #bagism #art

Paul vs. Bagism compilation, from Get Back and the Nagras: part 1 of 3

John and Yoko appeared in a bag at the Royal Albert Hall on December 18 1968, which disconcerted Paul so much that he spent the entire month of January bringing it up

#get back #paul mccartney #john lennon #bagism #here have an elaborate slideshow thing #just to highlight the full extent of Paul's distress/jealousy/disdain #Tumblr file limits are forcing me to do this in three parts ugh #but this was loads of fun woo #paul vs bagism #beatles vids #george harrison #1969 #john and paul #john and yoko #my posts

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50 years ago, on the 16th January 1970, John’s Bag One exhibition was raided by police. Photographed above, Detective Inspector Frederick Luff, the head of Scotland Yard’s obscene publications squad, confiscates one of John’s Bag One lithographs at the London Arts Gallery on New Bond Street, London, while a police officer guards the gallery in the top photo, plus the first 7 lithographs in the Bag One collection - I’ve not included the erotic ones, but they’re available on the internet for anyone who wants to see them - they mostly feature Yoko!

The exhibition of lithographs including several containing erotic imagery, had opened the previous day. The lithographs, known as ‘Bag One’, had been drawn by John in 1969, and chronicled his and Yoko’s wedding ceremony and honeymoon, including several erotic images. The police raided the exhibition the day after it opened following a tip-off from Egham magistrate Nansi Creer that it featured indecent images. The police seized the offending artworks but 50 signed lithograph sets (at £550 each) and 20 individual prints (priced at £40 each) had already been sold.

Ultimately it was decided by the Director of Public Prosecution that John would not be prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act 1964, in case it led to censorship of artworks by other artists who depicted nude figures. Instead he was prosecuted under the Metropolitan Police Act 1839. This made it an offence to distribute indecent material in a public thoroughfare. However, this case was dismissed after three weeks on 27 April 1970, when a magistrate ruled that the London Arts Gallery was not a thoroughfare.

Pics: Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images / John Lennon’s Lithographs via Beatlesbible Source: Beatlesbible