Video: 'The BEATLES - Yesterday And Today - U.S. butcher stereo version'

(Saturday, July 9, 1966) — Yesterday and Today by The Beatles debuted at #120 on today’s Billboard 200 albums chart. It was the group’s 17th appearance on the chart since Feb. 1, 1964.

Yesterday and Today, the band’s ninth album issued on Capitol Records and twelfth American release overall, was released June 20, 1966, in the U.S.

Yesterday and Today included tracks from The Beatles’ two most recent British LPs which had not yet been included on American albums, plus three from their upcoming LP in the United Kingdom, plus two songs which were back-to-back on a single.

The album was initially released with its notorious cover photo featuring the Fab Four dressed in butcher smocks while posing with chunks of meat and parts of dismembered dolls; the resulting outcry prompted Capitol to recall the albums and replace the covers with a more conventional group portrait, making the “butcher cover” a collector’s item.