[2019-03-22] John Lennon And Yoko Ono "Wedding Album" reissue (Chimera)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:44 pm

Description
Originally released in 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Wedding Album was the couple's third experimental, album-length record, and one of the most remarkable of the duo's testaments to an intense romantic and artistic partnership that would last fourteen years, until Lennon's tragic passing in 1980. On March 20, 1969, John and Yoko were married in a civil service in Gibraltar. To celebrate the event, in lieu of a conventional honeymoon, the newlyweds spent a week in bed at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, inviting members of the press into their room for interviews and photo sessions, and using their fame and the publicity generated by their "Bed-in" to call attention to their campaign for world peace. With Wedding Album, John and Yoko created an enduring snapshot of a vibrant pop-cultural moment, with the hostilities of the Vietnam War as it's bracing backdrop. It captures the humor, earnestness, and spontaneity that marked the early years of the "Ballad of John and Yoko" era. Wedding Album's innovative, original packaging, created by graphic designer John Kosh, included a box filled with souvenirs of John and Yoko's nuptials: photographs, a copy of the couple's marriage certificate, both Lennon's and Ono's drawings, a picture of a slice of wedding cake, and more. Now, with a faithful recreation of Wedding Album in limited-edition, white-vinyl LP; compact disc; and digital-download formats, Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music are making one of the most unusual and emblematic recordings of the Sixties available again - fifty years after John and Yoko were married - to mark the golden wedding anniversary of two of the 20th century's most emblematic cultural figures.

Tracklist
1. John & Yoko
2. Amsterdam

CD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/6317706425/?tag=imwan-20

Vinyl
https://www.amazon.com/dp/6317707219/?tag=imwan-20

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

Golly!

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

Oh boy! I've been waiting years for this. HAHAHAHA

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

I'm personally waiting for the super deluxe 5 disc boxed set of Two Virgins.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

Is that the one that comes with two slices of cake?

Robert Meagher · 30 Sep 2006

I already have Two Virgins. Never got this one. I think I will wait until I listen to the other two again. It’s been nearly 50 years since I listened to the other two... maybe in another 50 or so.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

the record companies really just have no idea do they?

JoeP · **Joined:** 20 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 542

What? No Wedding Album.... Naked?

:shock:

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

JoeP wrote:

What? No Wedding Album.... Naked?

:shock:

You have to wait for the Super Duper Ultimate Box Set for that. For the time being, the "Two Virgins" cover will have to suffice.

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

Something tells me that if Instagram had been around back in 1969, there would exist a photographic record of everything John and Yoko ate that year.

Rokin Robin of Locksley · 20 Oct 2007

I had bought the 1977 Japan import reissue from Lord Sitar Records (a great Beatles vinyl mail order company), only because I had to have all the solo Beatle albums, whether or not they were any good. Don't remember if I ever played this or not, ha. Just took it off the shelf, funny to see all the 'goodies' inside. The original 1969 had all these:

- Wedding certificate (glued onto inside box lid)
- Press booklet
- Poster of the wedding
- Poster of ''Bed Peace''
- Bagism bag (white plastic)
- Passport photographs
- Postcard
- Picture of wedding cake
- Some copies came with a fold-over 'These fine albums are available...' promotional Apple Records color leaflet

Unfortunately my reissue didn't come with the Bagism bag, ha, or the Apple Records promo leaf. Durn, I didn't save the obi strip!

For some crazy reason I had thought the piece of wedding cake included was an actual piece of plastic, maybe 1/8" thick, but couldn't find any evidence of that on Discogs.

Pretty funny all around...

Neal Alhadeff · 07 Jan 2007

I have my old vinyl version with all the goodies and the previous CD reissue. I'll probably pass on this edition.

[2019-03-22] John Lennon And Yoko Ono "Wedding Album" reissue (Chimera)

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