For the Beatles’ part, they’d made themselves clear on this issue with the “butcher” cover to the spurious Capitol Records releaseYesterday and Today, but never seemed to have returned to the issue. “Well I just had to laugh” is, as Riley notes, a token of resigned disillusionment....
November 10th, 1965 was the date for the first stereo mixing of “We Can Work It Out,” which was done in Room 65 of EMI Studios by George Martin, Norman Smith and Jerry Boys. This mix was sent to the US to eventually be used on Capitol’s “Yesterday…And Today” album (and an...
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The originalYesterday and Todayrecord cover, taken by photographer Robert Whitaker, featuredThe Beatleswearing butchers’ coats and holding baby doll parts and meat. The covers for the album (released in the U.S. in June 1966), which can sell for thousands of dollars today, are often said ...
with identical track listings in both the UK and the US.[146] In June 1966, Yesterday and Today, one of Capitol's compilation albums, caused an uproar with its cover, which portrayed the grinning Beatles dressed in butcher's overalls, accompanied by raw meat and mutilated plastic baby dolls...
through: Infoseek) --- Hello, I've been wondering why it is that certain songs were released on different albums in different countries. For example I Need You on the Rubber Soul album is on the Yesterday and Today album over here. Also, do you have any info on the famous BUTCHER ...
they did cooperate in a taped interview at a photographic studio, The Vale in the Chelsea area of west London, on March 25th (afterward posing for the famous Robert Whitaker “butcher” photographs). Assuming that Jimmy Savile was present on this day, we can estimate that “Paperback Writer”...
When I was at the flea market yesterday I saw what I though might be a pasteover BeatlesButchercover. I don’t own any vinyl, nor do I plan on going down that rabbit hole, but when I saw a copy ofYesterday and Todayin a bin I had to stop and look. The anodyne trunk photograph...
The idea that Capitol (Apple’s distributor) might feel wary of Beatle-approved cover art, of course, had credibility – as Capitol had already had to recall, at great expense, the Beatles’ infamous butcher covers not too long before. It didn't take long after “The White Album” hit ...
habit of "butchering" the Beatles' standard UK LP configuration. However, looking at the historical facts shows that the photo session was completed in March 1966, expressly for the "Paperback Writer" campaign, and before Capitol asked for a suitable cover photo for "Yesterday and Today". ...