Beatles Yesterday and Today Butcher Album
$
500
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As per information below this is the original The Bealtes Yesterday And Today 1rst pressing 2nd State Butcher Album T2553 written on the upper right hand corner on the front and back. You can see a hint of Ringo's butcher sleeve through the front over. The cover is in excellent shape.
n a nutshell, the controversy started in May 1966 when Capitol in the states required a cover for their Beatles LP "Yesterday... and Today". The infamous butcher cover has worked its way into legend to become the most sought after Beatles album of all time. Originally shot as part of a surrealist triptych by photographer Robert Whitaker, the sight of the Fab 4 dressed in butcher's aprons and adorned with raw meat and dismembered baby dolls proved too much for the US mainstream. Some DJs even refused to play the album because they were shocked by the grotesques jackets. Anyway, rather than waste the reported $200,000 printing cost of the sleeve, Capitol "removed" the sleeve and replaced it with a more decent shot(see pix opposite)by pasting a innocent looking shot of the band, but people started to peel, steam, tearing away the new sleeve because it was cool to own the banned cover!
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