10 Key Elements To The Paul McCartney Is Dead Theory

10. The Butcher Cover/The Trunk Cover

By 1966, The Beatles were fed up with their clean-cut image. To ruffle a few feathers they decided to shock the world with a provoking album cover.

The album in question was "Yesterday and Today" a collection of random songs built for the North American market. The cover to the album included a bunch of decapitated dolls draped over the band who were all appropriately dressed in butcher coats.

Unsurprisingly, audiences weren't quite ready for butchered babies, especially ones that were covered in fake blood, raw meat, and cigarette burns. Despite the band claiming that it was an abstract representation of them as real-life people, the world was outraged.

Due to a large amount of money spent on the album's production nothing much could be done apart from sticking a new image, the "trunk cover" over the offending picture. This then led to thousands of fans peeling off the pasted-on covers to see what they would find underneath.

The "trunk cover" was also controversial as it featured Paul McCartney in a coffin-like trunk with the rest of the band surrounding him. Was this The Beatles trying to tell us something?