The Beatles Return to England from America (1966)

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On 25 March 1966, the Beatles took part in a photo session in a London studio (1 The Vale, Chelsea). The studio was rented by Oluf Nissen, but Whitaker took the photographs, as he had also photographed the covers for the albums, With the Beatles, Beatles For Sale, Help! and Rubber Soul.

The publicity shots were used for the American Yesterday and Today album and a poster promoting the UK release of "Paperback Writer". The photograph created an uproar, as it featured the band dressed in butchers' overalls, draped in meat and mutilated plastic dolls. A popular, though apocryphal, rumour said that this was meant as a response to the way Capitol had "butchered" their albums. Capitol parent EMI chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood ordered the butcher cover withdrawn. Thousands of copies of the album had a new cover pasted over.

Whitaker later explained that he was trying to create a satirical commentary on the Beatles' fame, and that the images of dismembered doll and mannequin parts had been inspired by the German surrealist Hans Bellmer. Uncensored copies of Yesterday and Today command a high price today, with one copy selling for $10,500 at a December 2005 auction. Unpeeled copies of the pasted over sleeve are also collectable.

After the group played a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on 29 August 1966, they announced that they would stop touring.

Immediately after the tour, the Beatles took a three month break from each other to follow individual pursuits. Lennon accepted a supporting role in the film How I Won the War, and it was during filming that he wrote one of his most beloved compositions, "Strawberry Fields Forever". McCartney wrote the score for the film The Family Way. Harrison and his wife Pattie, whom he had married in January, travelled to India, where he met and took sitar lessons from Ravi Shankar and immersed himself in the local culture and religion. Starr mostly stayed at home with his family. The group reconvened on 24 November to begin the sessions for what would become Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

A visit by Lennon to the Indica Gallery in London on 9 November would shape the future of the Beatles as it was there that Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time.

Because the group did not record a new album for the Christmas season as they did the previous three years, Parlophone Records issued the group's first compilation album titled A Collection of Beatles Oldies on 10 December.

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