of the songs were switched between albums. The British albums, however, were the originalversions produced by the Beatles and were intended to be released withoutalteration in both America and Britain. In an interview years later, JohnLennon expressed frustration over Capitols practice of changing songs aroundon Beatle albums sold in America: LENNON: We would carefully sequence the material, you know, the songs, and have it just the way we felt it should sound for an album. We would put a lot of thought and work into the process and then wed come over to America... and hear what they had done and it would drive us crazy. Some people will argue that the Beatles intended touse the "butcher block photo," but George Harrison statedemphatically, years later, that the Beatles had nothing to do with Yesterdayand Today. The following is Harrisons explanation: HARRISON: When the American company [Capitol Records] released albums like Yesterday and Today, we didnt have anything to do with them. They always used to put out more albums in the States than we actually had. In England wed put 14 tracks on a record and in America theyd put out about 10. Plus, wed release singles in England and we would never include them on our next album. So if we put out two singles and two albums, theyd convert them to three albums by keeping the extra tracks. So they were different over here. We started to put our foot down when it came to albums like Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and all because it was important that they be the same songs in the States. Yesterday and Today was a collection of songs from three British albums,plus two singles. Table 1 shows the songs on Yesterday and Today cross-referencedwith the British albums and singles where they also appear. Notice how most ofsongs are from the British versions of Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver,and the A and B sides of a single ("We Can Work it Out" and "DayTripper"). Also notice that Yesterday and Today was released onJune 15, 1966, nearly two months before Revolver was released on August5, 1966. Yet Yesterday and Today contains three unreleased Lennon songsintended for Revolver. This is extremely odd, and highly significant. I believe the fraudulent release of Yesterday andToday by Capitol Records served three purposes. First, it made extra moneyfor Capitol by releasing an additional album that the Beatles had neverintended to be released. Second, the butcher block photo was intended to weakenthe Beatles popularity, and frighten the Beatles as well. Third, by pullingthree top-notch Lennon songs from the unreleased Revolver, and includingthe tunes on Yesterday and Today, this would strengthen Paul McCartneysreputation as a songwriter when Revolver was released. In other words,McCartney looked stronger on the American version of Revolver becauseLennons contributions were fewer in number. This leads to another troublingconclusion: Paul McCartney was apparently an active participant in a conspiracywith Capitol Records to discredit John Lennon and the Beatles inexchange for strengthening his own reputation as a songwriter and performer. TomorrowNever Knows introduces psychedelic rock Regardless of efforts made to suppress