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# Lady Gaga's meat dress link to the Beatles
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## Lady Gaga's controversial choice to wear a costume apparently constructed
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of meat at the MTV Video Music Awards is not the first time that such images
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have been used to promote musicians.
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![Lady Gaga's meat dress link to the Beatles][1]
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The Beatles' 'Yesterday and Today' album cover and Lady Gaga at the MTV Video
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Music Awards Photo: AP
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By Andy Bloxham 4:34PM BST 15 Sep 2010
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[Comments][2]
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As long ago as 1966, the Beatles released the album Yesterday and Today which
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was first printed with a controversial cover featuring the band dressed as
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butchers and draped in joints of meat and decapitated baby dolls.
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The image, although apparently not originally intended as an album cover, was
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said to reflect the group's feelings on the Vietnam War.
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Advance copies created such a backlash that the record label's management
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ordered the "meat" versions destroyed, however, many survived and are now
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collectors' items.
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In 1983, the punk group the Undertones released a singles compilation titled
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All Wrapped Up with a female model covered in meat - chiefly rashers of fatty
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bacon held to her with what looks like Clingfilm.
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A few years later, in 1988, the rock group B.A.L.L., fronted by US musician
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Don Fleming, released a pastiche of the short-lived Beatles cover with their
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album Bird.
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## Related Articles
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14 May 2011
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14 Sep 2010
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* [Lady Gaga collects MTV VMA Award wearing dress made of meat][6]
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13 Sep 2010
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However, the use of meat to promote music has remained controversial.
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Ingrid Newkirk, the president of animal rights campaign group PETA, said:
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"Lady Gaga's job is to do outlandish things, and this certainly qualifies as
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outlandish because meat is something you want to avoid putting on or in your
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body.
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"No matter how beautifully it is presented, flesh from a tortured animal is
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flesh from a tortured animal."
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A spokeswoman for the Vegetarian Society said: "It just seems totally
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unnecessary.
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"Enough animals die for food and they should not be killed for stunts like
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