The Beatles : Yesterday and Today
Yesterday and Today
is a
studio album
by
The Beatles
their ninth
album released on
Capitol Records
and eleventh overall
American release.
It was originally issued
only in
the United States
and
Canada.
In the 1970s
it was issued in
Japan.
The album is remembered
primarily for the controversy
surrounding its
original cover image,
the
"butcher cover"
featuring the band
dressed in white smocks
and covered with
decapitated baby dolls
and pieces of meat.
The album's title is
based on the song
"Yesterday".
Early album cover
proofs show the word
"Yesterday"
in quotes.
Both
Tim Riley
and
American Songwriter
journalist
Jim Beviglia
classified
Yesterday and Today
as a compilation album,
and
Music Radar
said it was one
in a series of
"hit-filled compilation albums"
that the
American Capitol label
"sliced and diced"
from the Beatles'
original
British albums.
The hodge-podge nature
in which
Capitol Records
compiled their albums
irritated the group,
who felt they had
put a lot of work into
the sequencing
of the British albums
In the U.S.,
the album sold
967,410 copies
by
December 31, 1966
and
1,230,558 copies
by the end of
the decade
TRACK LIST
Drive My Car
I'm Only Sleeping
Nowhere Man
Dr. Robert
Yesterday
Act Naturally
And Your Bird Can Sing
If I Needed Someone
We Can Work It Out
What Goes On ?
Day Tripper
* Interview : John Lennon on
Yesterday and Today Album Cover
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