BEATLES YESTERDAY & TODAY 1966 BUTCHER COVER 2ND STATE

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BEATLES YESTERDAY & TODAY 1966 BUTCHER COVER 2ND STATE!

For auction is the infamous Beatles Butcher Cover of The Beatles called 'Yesterday & Today'

and is an ORIGINAL 1966 CAPITOL Mono Pressing

on the 'Rainbow' Capitol label!

Dead Wax Numbers

T12553 G-24

T22553 F-19

THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND Very Hard TO FIND!!!!

THIS IS ONE OF THE RAREST BEATLES LP EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!! BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS AN ULTRA RARE '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER PRESSING (WITH 'UNPEELED' TRUNK COVER HIDING THE BUTCHER COVER UNDERNEATH!) - AND IS IN VG CONDITION!!!!

AS MANY PEOPLE WILL ALREADY KNOW, THE INFAMOUS BUTCHER COVER WAS THE ORIGINAL COVER CAPITOL PLANNED TO USE ON THIS LP WHEN IT WAS 1ST PRESSED IN 1966. THE ORIGINAL COVER SHOWED THE BEATLES WEARING BUTCHER SMOCKS AND HOLDING CUTS OF MEAT AND DOLLS - WHICH WAS DESIGNED TO SHATTER THE BEATLES 'CLEAN-CUT' IMAGE!!!!

HOWEVER, WHEN THE FIRST FEW COPIES WERE SENT OUT TO RADIO STATIONS PRIOR TO RELEASE - THERE WAS A MASSIVE OUTCRY ABOUT THE 'POOR TASTE' OF THE COVER AND CAPITOL DECIDED TO WITHDRAW THE LP BEFORE THE ACTUAL RELEASE DATE!!!! ONLY A TINY HANDFUL OF COPIES GOT OUT WITH THE ORIGINAL BUTCHER COVER INTACT

(KNOWN AS THE 1ST STATE COVER) - BEFORE CAPITOL ISSUED AN ORDER TO DESTROY THEM. HOWEVER, MOST OF THE COVER MANUFACTURERS DECIDED IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER (AND MORE COST EFFECTIVE!) TO 'PASTE OVER' THE REMAINING BUTCHER COVERS WITH THE NEW APPROVED 'TRUNK' COVER PHOTO - RATHER THAN DESTROY THEM. THESE COVERS (WITH THE BUTCHER COVER PASTED OVER BY THE TRUNK COVER) ARE KNOWN AS 2ND STATE BUTCHER COVERS. OF COURSE, THIS ONLY  LASTED a Short  AMOUNT OF TIME, AND MOST COPIES OF THIS LP DONT HAVE A BUTCHER COVER UNDER THE TRUNK COVER,  OVER THE YEARS (APART FROM 1ST STATES) THIS '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER HAS BECOME THE RAREST VERSION OF ALL!!!! EVEN BACK IN 1966 MOST BUYERS OF THIS LP DECIDED TO RIP OFF THE TRUNK COVER TO SEE WHAT WAS

UNDERNEATH (USUALLY DESTROYING THE COVERS IN THE PROCESS!)

AND OVER THE YEARS, MORE '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVERS

HAVE BEEN PEELED (USUALLY BADLY) TO BECOME A '3RD STATE' BUTCHER COVER

(WHICH IS WHAT 'PEELED' COVERS ARE KNOWN AS) - AND SO TODAY

AN UNPEELED '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER IN THIS CONDITION IS

EXTREMELY RARE INDEED (AS MOST HAVE BEEN PEELED) 

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT AT ALL THAT '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVERS  WILL ONLY  INCREASE IN VALUE AND BECOME EVER RARER AS MORE AND MORE' 2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVERS ARE 'PEELED' ON A DAILY BASIS!!

AND MY ADVICE TO ANYONE IS NEVER EVER PEEL IT.

YOU CAN SEE THE 'BUTCHER COVER' PICTURE ANYWHERE - AND THE TRUE RARITY IS KNOWING YOU HAVE AN ORIGINAL ONE AS A '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER IN VG CONDITION!!!! SO WHY FEEL THE NEED TO PEEL IT? AND CERTAINLY IF THE RATE OF 'PEELING' OF '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVERS CONTINUES - THEN THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT ONE DAY SOON THIS '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER WILL BECOME THE RAREST

VERSION EVER & VERY HIGHLY PRIZED!!!! AND FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU CAN TELL A '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER (LIKE THIS ONE!) THEN YOU ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE 'TRUNK' ON THE COVER FRONT -WHERE RINGO STAR'S 'V-NECK' DARK TOP CAN CLEARLY BE SEEN THROUGH THE WHITE COLOUR,

AND IF YOU LOOK REALLY CLOSELY YOU CAN MAKE OUT HAS FACE, AND LEGS TOO! JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1966 U.S. '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER MONO PRESSING ON THE 1ST PRESS 'RAINBOW' CAPITOL LABEL, 1ST PRESS CAPITOL INNER SLEEVE, AND RARE '2ND STATE' BUTCHER COVER!!!! THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!

Record has surface marks-- I visually rate this record at VG 

But it plays like VG+

The cover has a name written on the front and a small tear from sticker being taken off on back cover lower right corner. Cover Rated VG with no split seams.

See supersized Pictures

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