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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.
Robert Whitaker (13 November 1939 – 20 September 2011) was a British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, [1] taken between 1964 and 1966, with his best known work, the "Butcher Cover", which featured on the band's 1966's US-only album Yesterday and Today.
In June 1966, it was the first magazine to feature, in colour, the notorious "butcher" cover for the Beatles' US album Yesterday and Today, under the headline "Beatles: What a Carve-up!" [6] Contributors to the magazine included Jack Good, in the early 1960s and, later in the decade, John Peel.
A highlight of the album was the gatefold sleeve featuring the controversial "butcher" photo from the 1966 Yesterday and Today album. Although the Capitol Rarities album was geared towards the American market, it was also issued in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Japan and New Zealand.
The cover was highly controversial and remains so: in 2008, the album’s Wikipedia page was placed on a blacklist by the Internet Watch Foundation as they believed the image could be regarded as ...
This photograph was later used, albeit briefly, as the Yesterday and Today album cover in the US, and in that capacity it became known as the "butcher cover". [ 24 ] [ 25 ] For the American release of the single, the picture sleeve showed the Beatles playing live, but with Lennon and Harrison's images reflected so that it appeared they were ...
Album cover designed by artist Klaus Voorman for the Beatles' album 'Revolver,' August 1966. ... I mean, the Beatles didn't happen by accident. If you get to know Paul McCartney, he is a really ...
Livingston is also responsible for what have come to be known as the "Butcher Covers." When The Beatles released their 1966 album Yesterday and Today it was initially released with a surreal Robert Whitaker cover photograph depicting the group draped in slabs of meat and dismembered doll parts. Protests from record dealers forced Capitol to ...