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:  Framed Butcher Cover, a stereo copy of the "  Yesterday ... and Today "  Album ST-2553 is included as a bonus but is not represented to be from the framed sleeve.  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. We review every item to determine basic condition. If you require a more detailed description or condition report please contact us at: Win@gonbid.com, 845-372-4787, or through our website www.scottdanielsauction.com. All lots are sold in as-is condition at the time of sale, and condition listings are given as a courtesy for guidance only and should be evaluated by personal inspection by the bidder.