The Beatles had been invited to beat poet Allen Ginsberg's 39th birthday party by mutual friend and Indica Gallery co-founder Barry Miles. Although few of the party goers expected them to show, John and Cynthia Lennon, George Harrison and Pattie Boyd arrived.
The party was thrown by David Larcher at his basement flat in London's Chester Square. When the two Beatles and their partners entered the flat, Ginsberg was high and wearing nothing but a sign on his penis saying "No Waiting".
Lennon and Harrison anxiously looked around for photographers, and were grateful to see none. When Ginsberg spotted the new arrivals, he rushed over to embrace Lennon. Harrison turned his back to sheild Cynthia and Pattie, and Lennon sternly told Ginsberg: "You don't do that in front of the birds!"
They left the party minutes later. Despite the encounter, Lennon and Ginsberg later became firm friends. Lennon, of course, appeared naked on the cover of Two Virgins with Yoko Ono in 1968.
