The Beatles Yesterday And Today PEELED BUTCHER COVER VINYL ORIGINAL MONO
  $   290

 


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Dec 14, 2021 Sold Date
Dec 7, 2021 Start Date
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Yesterday and Today bought in 1966 in San Francisco in a rush to obtain hidden cover before albums were stripped off shelves and replaced with new covers with no old covers underneath.  Inexpertly steamed to reveal butcher cover. See above re cover shape.

"The album contains songs that Capitol had withheld from its configurations of the band's recent EMI albums, along with songs that the group had released elsewhere on non-album singles. Among its 11 tracks are songs from the EMI albums Help! and Rubber Soul, and three new 1966 recordings that would appear on Revolver in countries outside North America....

Yesterday and Today is remembered primarily for the controversy surrounding its original cover image. Known as the "butcher cover", it was taken by photographer Robert Whitaker and shows the band dressed in white coats and covered with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of raw meat. Although the photo was intended to be part of a larger work critiquing the adulation afforded the Beatles, the band members insisted it was a statement against the Vietnam War. Others interpreted it as the Beatles protesting the record company's policy of "butchering" their albums for the North American market. In response to outrage from record retailers, the LP was withdrawn and the cover replaced with a shot of the band posed around a "steamer" trunk.

The album's title plays on that of the song "Yesterday". The original LP has become a highly prized item among collectors. Since some of Capitol's pressing plants merely pasted the trunk image onto the existing LP covers, the album also encouraged a phenomenon of stripping back the top layer of artwork in the search for a banned butcher cover. Having been deleted from Capitol's catalogue in 1986, Yesterday and Today was reissued on CD in 2014."

Songs include, among others,  Baby You Can Drive My Car, Nowhere Man, Dr. Robert, We Can Work It Out, And Your Bird Can Sing, If I Needed Someone, Day Tripper, and of course Yesterday.



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