Beatles Posing With Butchered Baby Dolls On Rare Album Cover Sparks Debate
The original cover for the album Yesterday and Today, taken by photographer Robert Whitaker, featured John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr wearing butchers’ coats while holding baby doll parts and meat. Before its release, the cover was met with a backlash from some who had seen advance copies, including DJs and reviewers, prompting Capitol Records to replace it with an image of the musicians posing around a steamer luggage trunk....