Today In Music History: Beatles Shoot Infamous "Butcher" Album Cover On March 25, 1966 (ChartAttack.com) |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PDT  The Beatles shot their widely-protested red- meat- and- decapitated- dolls-filled cover for Yesterday And Today on this day in 1966.The Beatles showed up at photographer Robert Whitaker's London, England studio for the session. Whitaker had photographed the band several times in the past. During the shoot, he got John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to don white lab coats and pose with raw meat, dismembered dolls and false teeth. Whitaker later said the cover was intended to be a satirical examination of the band's massive fame that was inspired by surrealist art and is part of a triptych of photos. Unfortunately, once Yesterday And Today came out with the image on the cover, it garnered tons of complaints from retailers, forcing it to recall the record and publish it with a much, much different cover that looks like this: CHARTattack's Keith Carman declared the artwork one of metal's most notorious covers in 2008. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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