Beatles' album - Second in Top Most Shocking Banned Album Covers

Guitar World presents the 20 most shocking banned album covers of all time. An Alice Cooper album cover is placed first, followed by The Beatles' "Yesterday and Today".

For their 1966 album, Yesterday and Today, the Beatles presented themselves as grinning butchers, complete with raw beef and dismembered baby dolls. However, the image was not appropriate to the Fab Four's clean public image. Upon receiving advance copies, radio DJs were outraged and Capitol Records quickly repackaged the record with what was apparently the only image of the band it had available.

You can see below the album covers:






The complete top is here.

Then and now: Dion

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I wonder why...

"I Wonder Why" is a doo-wop song, written by Maxwell Anderson and Ricardo Weeks, and first recorded by Dion and the Belmonts in 1958. The song was used in the film, A Bronx Tale, in the pilot episode of the television series The Sopranos and in John Carpenter's film adaption of Stephen King's "Christine". (Source: Wikipedia.org)

Dion & The Belmonts




The Chiffons

Shout!

"Shout" is a popular and influential popular song, originally recorded by The Isley Brothers. Released in 1959, it was written by the brothers themselves. The song was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. It ranked #118 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. (Source: Wikipedia.org)

The Isley Brothers




The Shangri-Las




The Beatles

"Imagine" John Lennon at 70

Yoko Ono declares:

"Now, 99% of the world is taking a stand against wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. John would have done that but he'd have loved the new communication media.

He would have been writing statements and sending them out to the world as a blogger and a tweeter."

Vanity Fair imagined an interview with John Lennon... today. Everything would have been different:
- he would have lived in his dairy farm in Delaware County
- he would have received the reporter "shirtless—nearly naked, in fact, wearing only skimpy white tennis shorts with the top snap undone and a pair of olive-green Wellies"
- he would have been something like this: "slim, with a deep late-summer tan; the longish hair is mostly white and a bit thinned out on top"
- he would have had a young blond assistant taking care of the animals
- he would have been divorced from 1983
- in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks and Harrison being on his deathbed, Lennon and McCartney would have reached a lasting peace :)

More about this interview, here.