The Banned Beatles ; Butcher Cover: Second State 1966 Original Album Sleeve Framed
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The Butcher Cover : AKA: The Beatles Yesterday and Today is remembered for the controversy surrounding its original cover image. Collectors now know this 1966 design as the "butcher cover", the image 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. 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 retailers' outrage at the gory subject matter, Capitol immediately withdrew the LP and replaced the cover image with a shot of the band posed around a "steamer" trunk. Some of Capitol's pressing plants merely pasted the new trunk image onto the existing butcher LP covers. Thus the album created a phenomenon of stripping back the top layer of artwork in the search for a banned butcher cover. Framed Size : 14 x 16 PLEASE NOTE : This is the album SLEEVE ONLY. No record included. Wiki Note Yesterday and Today 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.
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The Banned Beatles ; Butcher Cover: Second State 1966 Original Album Sleeve Framed
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