The Beatles - Yesterday and Today - BUTCHER COVER - Vinyl Record LP

YESTERDAY AND TODAY , Butcher Cover .9th Studio Album, Sleeve is the Beatles protesting the record company's policy of "butchering" their albums for the North American market. Limited Edtion Sleeve, Mixed Coloured Vinyl.

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Yesterday and Today (also rendered as "Yesterday" ... and Today in part of the original packaging)[4] is a studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released in the United States and Canada in June 1966, it was their ninth album issued on Capitol Records and twelfth American release overall. Typical of the Beatles' North American discography until 1967, 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 later appear on Revolver in countries outside North America. The album's title plays on the song "Yesterday".

Yesterday and Today is remembered primarily for the controversy surrounding its original cover image. Nicknamed the "butcher cover", it depicted the band wearing white butcher smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of raw meat. While the photo was intended to be a critique of the public's adoration of the Beatles, the band members claimed that it was a commentary on the Vietnam War. Others interpreted it as the Beatles protesting Capitol's practice of "butchering" their albums for the North American market by altering track lists. In response to retailers' concerns about the gory imagery, Capitol immediately withdrew the LP and replaced the cover image with a shot of the band gathered around a steamer trunk.

The original LP became 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 the early-to-mid-1990s, Yesterday and Today was reissued on CD in 2014.