It was 52 years ago this week (March 2nd, 1969) that John Lennon and Yoko Ono made their first live public concert performance. Although the couple had first played together the previous December for the Rolling Stones’ Rock And Roll Circus TV special, Lennon’s appearance at Ono’s concert at Cambridge University’s Lady Mitchell Hall marked the first time the couple performed to the open public.
Lennon and Ono, along with saxophonist John Tchicai and percussionist John Stevens, performed the cacophonous experimental piece “Cambridge 1969,” which featured a bearded, denim-clad Lennon creating a wall of feedback guitar under Ono’s avant-garde singing. The song was eventually released later that year, and made up the entire second side of the couple’s second album, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions.
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