John Lennon
Bag One catalogue
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Michael Podulke and Gerard Bernard, 1970.
28 pp., 16.5 x 15 cm., staple-bound
Edition size unknown
A less common catalogue for an exhibition of Lennon’s erotic lithographs (see previous post). The cover features a photograph of Lennon and Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton in 1969, during their Bed-In event. The drawings represent less public aspects of their honeymoon: Ono with her legs spread, masturbating, and giving and receiving oral sex.
From their earliest days together, Lennon was not shy about sharing intimate aspects of their life together. The couple posed nude for their Two Virgins album cover on the night that they first consummated their relationship. One of the last photographs of Lennon is by Annie Leibowitz and features him naked and embracing a clothed Ono (both images appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone magazine). A few months prior the pair were photographed undressing and making love (footage which was later used for the music video “Woman”).
And Lennon's love of cunnilingus is well documented. During the 1972 One To One concert (see the 2025 documentary of the same name), Lennon’s performance of the song “Well, Well, Well” features the line “she looked so beautiful I could eat her” followed by the ad-lib “I did”. "It’s So Hard", also performed at the One To One concert, includes the line “Sometimes I feel like goin’ down”. In one of the many tell-all books by former associates (I can’t remember which), the author describes looking at the piece of paper inside Lennon’s typewriter and it simply stating “I am eating Yoko’s pussy”.
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