I learned something really disturbing on "Antiques Roadshow." Someone brought in a copy of the Beatles' "Yesterday and Today" with its original cover. I had never heard of this before, but it turns out that the album cover offended a lot of people, and it got pulled from Sears shelves after only a day. The record company, instead of re-wrapping all of the records, pasted an alternate cover on it. The woman who brought her copy in had bought it the day they sold it with the original cover. Apparently, it's worth like 10,000 dollars.
I've elected not to show the cover here, because I agree that it's wicked disturbing. Let's just say they call it the "Butcher Cover" and it involves dismembered baby dolls, raw meat, and eerie grins. I always knew the Beatles were a bit freaky, but this is ridiculous. Not cool guys . . . not cool. And by the way, Pete Townshend was right, your music isn't really that good.
3 comments:
what the *%#@?
I've never heard that!!!
That's demented.
Actualy, who is Pete TownsendLOL and the album cover sold for 15,000 at a Christie's Auction. Any Who covers do that?
The Lads changed the world and you can't re-write history and go back now and say they didn't
Pinkie,
No, there aren't any Who covers that are as valuable, but neither are there any so gruesome and disturbing. :)
I was too strident in my original post, but I still think there are a lot of bands better than the Beatles (who I do like--I was in a foul mood the day I wrote the post last year).
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