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elementor - v3.21.0 - 01-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"context__item\" style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b05p6p2t\">Portillo&#8217;s State Secrets<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0Episode 8 of 10\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div><div class=\"gamma\"><h4><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;\">Michael Portillo takes a sneaky peek at John Lennon&#8217;s dirty pictures.<\/span><\/h4><div class=\"\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In January 1970 the first ever exhibit of Bag One by John Lennon took place at the London Arts Gallery 22 New Bond Street. The opening was raided by the Scotland Yard Vice squad and the prints were confiscated. The gallery owner was charged with Obscenity and a trial was held the next month.<\/span><\/strong><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><h6>TRANSCRIPT<\/h6><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state has always imposed censorship and the first conviction for obscenity was in 1727 against the intriguingly named publication than Nun in her smock.\u00a0 Not until nineteen sixty could literary merit be pleaded as a defense tested in the famous prosecution of the novel Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover that trial inaugurated the struggle between the artists and your thorities. 45 years ago the work of one person of fame and influence tested the authorities tolerance beyond its limit<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201csexual intercourse began in 1963, which was rather late for me, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philip Larkin&#8217;s amusing verse precisely dates the beginning of the permissive <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">society and places the Fab Four at the heart of it.\u00a0 And at the heart of The Beatles was John Lennon the mop top to peace activism he was the band&#8217;s trendsetter by the turn of the decade he got his own way as a musician and broke the boundaries with pen and ink.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1970 an exhibition was staged at the London Arts Gallery of certain of his lewd lithographs a complaint was made and the Metropolitan Police went to investigate under 1839 obscenity legislation in these wonderful documents is the testimony of assistant detective Inspector Frederick Luff:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cshould these lithographs be a judge works of great artistic merit or not obscene I feel sure the progressives have no need to endeavor to repeal all the obscenity laws ie nothing is obscene many toilet walls depict works of similar merit it is perhaps charitable to suggest that they are the work of a sick mind.\u201d\u00a0 But h<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-style: inherit; color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;\">e is worried about the great influence of John Lennon as a Beetle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who made the complaint that caused the police to investigate?\u00a0 The British National Archives contain a statement from a Mrs. Nancy Creer a Justice of the Peace, who described her horror on visiting the exhibition;\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen I saw the first picture on the far wall I was stunned I couldn&#8217;t believe what i was looking at I went on and looked at two or three ball I went to the other wall and suddenly I felt I couldn&#8217;t stay in the gallery any longer I went over to my husband who hadn&#8217;t left the first picture I took him by the arm and I said I can&#8217;t stay in here I&#8217;ll go on up the road you can follow me he turned looked at me and said you&#8217;re red in the face your scarlet as I spoke to him I realized that I was red with embarrassment.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well what was the nature of these works of art that had provoked such a strong reaction?\u00a0 I can see here the pieces on the wall and.. yes.. yes.. I&#8217;m getting kind of idea of what kind of ah! yes&#8230; yes&#8230;\u00a0 John yeah they are pretty explicit they really show all the variations of sexual intercourse and oh yes a few solo performances by Yoko Ono. Well whatever were the merits of John Lennon as a lithograph are he believed that all you need is love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine by nineteen seventy Lennon had little left to prove as a musician or songwriter but to gain acceptance as a graphic artist was much harder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you regard as the artistic merit of the lithographs or so-called lithographs?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Lee, Art Critic<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Most of the art establishment thought that Lennon was trading on his reputation as a pop star they were denounced as as poor drawings, and in actual fact they&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re actually by today&#8217;s standards actually rather accomplished drawings. You can tell he&#8217;s trying to be amusing and that&#8217;s a difficult skill to to master, of course.<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lennon wasn&#8217;t alone in his creative endeavors by this time he was in love with and heavily influenced by Yoko Ono who was also no stranger to controversy she brought out she encourages are actually encouraged to do about having no boundaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DL: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But both of them were obsessed by bottoms and were obsessed by naked people and join them but don&#8217;t forget they&#8217;ve been to art college at least John had if you&#8217;re an art college you do life drawings so you used from a young age to drawing the male and female nude.<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s turn to the matter of obscenity the policeman, Mr. Luff.\u00a0 In the document that I&#8217;ve seen says \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if this isn&#8217;t obscene nothing&#8217;s obscene<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you think they&#8217;re as obscene as you can get?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DL: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs you can get, no they&#8217;re not nearly as obscene as things that were produced even before John Lennon was producing those drawings. They&#8217;re merely an affectionate repertoire of lovemaking skills.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well that was not the view of the police who raided the exhibition the day after it opened and stripped the offending artworks from the walls much to the annoyance of the gallery&#8217;s owner Eugene Schuster.<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m just amazed and I find it rather humorous it seems to me if the police wanted to seize anything they&#8217;d go down to Soho sees smut these blue movies and it appears they seize the art mainly because John Lennon did it.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I actually suspect the police because it happened so quickly and they&#8217;ve got these people making these really silly comments that they were disgusted by. I feel behind the scenes some D&#8217;s said let&#8217;s get Lennon but if that was the plan it didn&#8217;t work. The gallery owner was taken to court but the case was thrown out and Lennon&#8217;s works were later displayed across the world.<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where does this stand in the battle for the permissive society do you think?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DL: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think is incredibly important because the failure of that trial really marks the point at which youth culture has won and the establishment has lost. They tried very hard to victimize many of the more important major characters of the sixties Mick Jagger Keith Richards were others and they failed in all cases.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lithographs condemned as obscene at the time and now worth an estimated 85,000 pounds. A price perhaps inflated by the state&#8217;s attempt to ban them in 1970. 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