This just in from the Big O Newsletter

THE BEATLES' VAGINA!?

Say what?

The 'V'.

It has now come to light that Capitol Records' president Stan Gortikov had warned the Beatles' imprint Apple Records not to release the single 'Hey Jude' because its vinyl logo - the profile of a sliced apple - resembled a vagina. As The Independent reports, Gortikov wrote in a letter dated 28 August 1968: "Here's a wild and unanticipated problem to brighten up your day I just received a call from a very large and influential rack jobber in the western United States.

"He opened the conversation by saying, 'Are you guys serious? Do you know what you're doing? Do you really intend to sell products bearing the new Apple label?'"

Gortikov went on to explain that the trader in question felt that the new Apple label was pornographic and depicted a vagina. Despite concerns, the logo was unchanged and 'The White Album' cut, with its B-side 'Revolution', went on to sell eight million copies worldwide.

Money changes everything.

"Stan. it's an apple!"

Read the Independent report here.