| Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions | ||||
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| Studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono | ||||
| Released | 9 May 1969 (UK) 26 May 1969 (US) | |||
| Recorded | 4–25 November 1968, at Room 1, Second West Ward, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London; 2 March 1969, at Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge | |||
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| Length | 50:56 | |||
| Label | Zapple/Apple | |||
| Producer | John Lennon, Yoko Ono | |||
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Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions is the second of three experimental albums of avant-garde music by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in May 1969 on Zapple, a sub label of Apple. It was a successor to 1968's highly controversial Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins,[4] and was followed by the Wedding Album. The album peaked in the United States at number 174, 50 places lower than the previous album. The album, whose title is a play on words of the BBC Radio show Life with The Lyons, was recorded at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London and live at Cambridge University, in November 1968 and March 1969, respectively. The Cambridge performance, to which Ono had been invited and to which she brought Lennon, was Lennon and Ono's second as a couple. A few of the album's tracks were previewed by the public, thanks to Aspen magazine. The album was remastered in 1997.
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