Trivia / Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions

• Real Life Writes the Plot: Side 2 was recorded when Yoko Ono had to stay in the hospital to give birth, but their child died in a miscarriage. All the recordings on this side of the album take place in the hospital.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: About 14 minutes and 40 seconds into "Cambridge 1969", Yoko's wailing and Lennon's guitar feedback miraculously come into unison with each other. The result is quite pretty.
• Throw It In!: The appearance of sax player John Tchicai and drummer John Stevens in "Cambridge 1969" was a result of this. Fred Frith, then guitarist in Henry Cow, attended the concert in question, Natural Music, which was part of a general evening of improvisation at Cambridge University, and recalled that some of the audience and many of the other performers thought that John and Yoko were going on a bit too long, so Tchicai and Stevens took to the stage and started playing as a way of none-too-subtly hinting that they should wind it up and give someone else a go. According to Frith, John and Yoko were not best pleased about this, but in their subsequent accounts of the concert they liked it to be thought that it had been planned all along. (The concert's promoter, Anthony Barnett, also remembered the duo as having a bad attitude after the performance.)

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