The Beatles - Yesterday and Today STEREO

The Beatles - Yesterday and Today STEREO

 Cover has normal wear and tear for the age. Cover has tape as shown in photo. Cover is graded VG. Record is graded VG. STEREO

Yesterday and Today (also rendered as “Yesterday” ... and Today in part of the original packaging)[3] 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 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 In response to outrage from record retailers, the LP was withdrawn and the cover replaced with a shot of the band posed around a “steamer” trunk.