I was poking around the NYTimes archives to get something interesting to put into the weekly NYCPlaywrights email blast, Apparently
Shaw was at it fifty-five years before Lennon...
Although he didn't have nearly the shitstorm - or any really - that Lennon got. Maybe the fact that the news was still traveling by cable - or "special cable" as it says in this article - has something to do with it.
More Shaviana at the NYTimes.