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'Yesterday and Today' Album Cover Story. In an age where conspiracy theories can run wild on social media, it's worth reiterating that the members of the band were, in fact, posing with dolls.
For years, claims have spread online that British rock band The Beatles' 1966 album "Yesterday & Today" featured dismembered baby dolls and cuts of raw meat on its cover. "The Beatles, 1966," a X ...
The Holy Grail of Beatles collectibles appeared the other day at Recycled Sounds, tucked under the arm of a woman who had bought it for $45 at a garage sale. "She hoped to turn her treasure into ...
Context. Though the image is authentic and was initially featured as the cover for the 1966 Beatles album "Yesterday and Today," it was promptly pulled from shelves over criticism that it was ...
The Beatles' label pulled their most controversial album from shelves. Now, a rare copy of it is worth thousands of dollars.
One of rock 'n' roll's most controversial - and valuable - album covers turns 50 this month. The Beatles "butcher" cover for "Yesterday And Today" was issued by Capitol Records on June 20, 1966.
You couldn’t show a toilet seat on an album cover in 1966, and it would be a decade before punk rockers approached this level of public provocation. Yet there sat the Beatles , gleeful among the ...
A mint copy of the Beatles' infamous "butcher" cover for the now-deleted 'Yesterday and Today' collection, still in the shrink wrap, has fetched a staggering $15,300 on eBay. 'Yesterday and Today ...
The year was 1966, and the British invasion of The Beatles had enraptured music fans across the United States. It was 55 years ago this month, June 1966, that the group's album entitled "Yesterday ...
John Lennon once explained how Salvador Dalí and boredom inspired The Beatles' butcher cover. He contrasted it with the cover of his album 'Some Time in New York City'.