Some retailers refused to stock The Mamas and Papas album “If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears” because photo on the front cover showed the group laying together in a bath tub with a toilet in the corner.
The picture was quickly altered to include a printed banner covering the toilet which says “Includes California Dreaming”.
Showing or talking about toilets was taboo
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Yes, the broken ellipse design of the Toilet seat, very 60s. 
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The toilet in the bathroom,another universal fad I don’t agree with.
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Those folks look “Close Coupled”
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Mama’s and the Poopas 
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Same here, though there should be a sink in there but rarely is.
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I have to say it’s not the most appealing of picture covers… Cheers Bretrick! 
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It was a terrible album cover!
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Looks like a bidet to me.
Blimey that really is weird never heard of that before a picture of a loo being offensive?
How times have changed.
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More toilet censorship in '68 … Beggars Banquet
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This got to number 2 back in 1977. I remember the single was easily available from some retailers. I think HMV blanked out the number 2 slot on their singles chart display board which probably only succeed in selling more records.
Wether that was weird or not is a matter of opinion I suppose.
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I do remember reading about this years ago.
Something about being disrespectful of Queen Elizabeth?
To suggest that some people found it disrespectful would be an understatement. I can’t remember which member of the band it was but one of The Sex Pistols was slashed with a blade on the street.
Seriously controversial back then, as for the Bill Grundy interview on The Today programme, my dad went absolutely ballistic !
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I remember watching that. Grundy was a fool, all his own doing. And it cost him his job.
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Yep, he goaded didn’t he? I gather that he was a staunch classical music devotee, not a professional interview perhaps but certainly one that sticks in the memory.
I’ll have to check it out on YouTube later
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