Yesterday and Today

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Yesterday and Today (also rendered as "Yesterday" ... and Today in part of the original packaging) is a studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released in the United States and Canada in June 1966, it was their ninth album issued on Capitol Records and twelfth American release overall. Typical of the Beatles' North American discography until 1967, the album contains songs that Capitol had withheld from its configurations of the band's recent EMI albums, along with songs that the group had released elsewhere on non-album singles. Among its eleven tracks are songs from the EMI albums Help! and Rubber Soul, and three new 1966 recordings that would later appear on Revolver in countries outside North America. The album's title plays on the song "Yesterday". Yesterday and Today is remembered primarily for the controversy surrounding its original cover image. Nicknamed the "butcher cover", it depicted the band wearing white butcher smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and...

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