Yesterday and Today
Occupation
- Song: all
- Guitar: George Harrison
- Guitar: John Lennon
- Bass: Paul McCartney
- Drums: Ringo Starr
Yesterday and Today is a music album by the British band The Beatles, released in 1966 in the USA and Canada (1970 in Japan ). It was known primarily for his reclusive cover that the band dressed in butcher smocks and draped with pieces of meat and was broken toy dolls.
Musical content
Until 1966, the track lists of the British and U.S. versions of the Beatles albums are significantly different. Yesterday and Today has never been released in the UK. The album contains a selection of hitherto unpublished in the U.S. songs from the last two British Beatles albums Help! and Rubber Soul. Added to this were the songs Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out, previously appeared as a single and the songs I'm Only Sleeping, Doctor Robert and And Your Bird Can Sing, to only a few weeks later on the UK edition of the album Revolver should be heard.
Cover design
On the cover first appeared a photo of the band that was created during a photo session early 1966. The photographer was Robert Whitaker. It showed the four Beatles smiling wearing butcher smocks. About laps and shoulders of the musicians chunks of meat were distributed. In addition, to see parts of toy dolls in the photo. The album was pressed with this cover has a circulation of 750,000 copies. Advance copies were sent to record dealer, journalists and disc jockeys. This immediately had severely criticized the cover. It has been described as tasteless and grotesque. Then the record company, Capitol Records was completely recall the album. The record company originally wanted to destroy all the album covers, but decided, given the already large amount of produced album covers to tape over the offending cover with another cover to save costs. The new cover shows the four Beatles and a large suitcase. In this new design, the album was released on June 20, 1966.
Copies with the original - so-called - " Butcher Cover" have since become very rare. In 2006, a sealed copy of an auction price of 39,000 U.S. dollars.
Reception
In the U.S., the album reached number one. Bruce Eder from music portal AllMusic summed up in his review that the album sounds surprisingly homogeneous, although the various recordings were made over a period of 18 months and very different styles of music are presented.
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