:41:01
And I heard this was going
to be a happening.
:41:03
So I went down
the night before the opening.
:41:04
And the first thing
that was in the gallery...
:41:06
as you went in there was
a white stepladder...
:41:08
and a painting on the ceiling
and a spyglass hanging down.
:41:12
I walked up this ladder
and I picked up the spyglass.
:41:15
It was balancing there.
:41:16
And in teeny little writing
it just said "yes."If it had said "no"...
:41:19
- or something nasty...
- Something nasty.
:41:22
Like "rip-off," or whatever, I would have
left the gallery...
:41:26
but because it was positive,
it said, "Yes"...
:41:27
I thought, "This is the first show I've
been to that said something warm to me."
:41:32
Then I decided to see the rest of the show,
and that's when we met.
:41:35
We didn't really get together
till 18 months later.
:41:38
She came over for a date, as it were...
:41:40
I had a little studio, which was
really just a lot of tape recorders.
:41:43
And we made Two Virgins
and I was showing her...
:41:46
all my different tape recordings,
and all that.
:41:48
I thought, "This is great."
And I was going...
:41:50
on the tapes, and she was going...
:41:52
And we did, we made a tape all night.
:41:55
And in the morning we made love
as the sun came up.
:42:11
"Surprise, surprise."
:42:14
We shot the cover ourselves, privately,
and put out Two Virgins.
:42:18
And it was a kind of statement as well,
an awakening for me, too.
:42:22
This is me, naked, with the woman I love.
:42:26
When you were with the Beatles...
:42:27
you didn't express yourself
politically at all, did you?
:42:30
On our first tour...
:42:31
there was a sort of unspoken thing...
:42:34
that Mr. Epstein was preventing us
talking about the Vietnam War.
:42:38
And before we came back
the second time to America...
:42:41
George and I said to him:
:42:42
"We don't go unless we answer
what we feel about the war."
:42:44
'Cause you were being asked?
:42:45
'Cause we were
asked about it all the time...
:42:47
it was just silly, and we had
to pretend to be like in the old days...
:42:50
when artists weren't meant to say
anything about anything.