If you are a fan of the Beatles, you know the Beatles Butcher Cover refers to the album entitled “Yesterday And Today” that was released by the Beatles in June of 1966. The cover is referred to as the Butcher Cover because of the photo on it. The original cover showed the fab four sitting [...]
The “Butcher Cover” refers to the original cover art for the album “Yesterday And Today” by the legendary pop band The Beatles. The album was the tenth Beatles album released in the U.S., and was not released in Britain, since it was a collection of tracks from the British versions of the albums “Help” and [...]
When the individual members were asked about the Beatles Butcher Cover album, each band member had a different response. The controversial cover of the 1966 album portrays the band as butchers in white smocks covered in fresh meat and baby body parts. John Lennon and Paul McCartney supposedly protested the Viet Nam war in their [...]
Many of the Beatle’s controversial album covers from the 1960’s have become rare, but there are cheap Butcher Covers that are being made available. With the access of the Internet it has become easier to pair up buyers and sellers. The name “Butcher Cover” was due to the LP photo showing the fab four in [...]
The history of the Butcher Cover from the Beatles Yesterday And Today Album cover remains controversial as much as the Beatles do today. Some versions imply war protest, some imply protest against Capitol Records handling of their careers, and yet some imply, it was the photographer’s dark witted humour and undertone personal opinion of the [...]
On the 25th of March, 1966, The Beatles went to their photographer Whitaker’s studio to get their photos for an upcoming single. The band and the photographer were determined to create something different than the usual run-of-the-mill shot. The resulting image has since then been the famous or rather infamous ‘butcher’ cover. It is perhaps [...]
The Beatles album, Yesterday and Today was nothing out of the ordinary. What was shocking was the album cover that has since then been famous as the ‘butcher’ cover. It was called so because the cover showed The Beatles in white coats draped with dismembered body parts of dolls, raw meat and false teeth. The [...]
The Beatles have been famous to the extent that they were adulated by the masses. However, released in June 1966, the Yesterday and Today album’s cover lead to a controversy and The Beatles judgement was for the first time heavily criticised by the media and the masses alike. However, the same image today has become [...]
