14 days until the start of the Get Back sessions
It’s only a day later, and already the story was wrong.
See the December 18, 1968, entry, and read about the Alchemical Wedding. A woman removed her clothes during the “happening,” swept up in a performance of Indian music. At some point later in the evening, John Lennon and Yoko Ono instigated their first Bagism performance.
A member of Parliament had heard enough, even though he heard wrong.
Sir Cyril Black, the chairman of the Moral Law Defence Association, said in an interview on December 19, 1968 (and published the next day), said the event was “obscene and likely to deprave and corrupt” and called on the “law officers of the crown to take action.”
AP ran with his account of the night:
Black described the Albert Hall incident, in which a girl in the audience stripped during a stage performance by Beatle John Lennon and his Japanese girl-friend, Yoko Ono, as the last straw in the current permissive society caper.
“This shows how far things are going in this country,” he said. “None of this would have been tolerated as recently as 10 years ago. The man in the street instinctively dislikes it. I think there will be a big swing of the pendulum in the very near future – a swing toward decency.”
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror poked fun at John as well as its own fawning coverage of Ringo Starr from the day before in a cartoon that ran on page 11.
They May Be Parted 
