THE BEATLES - Yesterday and Today "BUTCHER COVER" Stereo 2nd state -paste over
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The Beatles "BUTCHER COVER"
Yesterday And Today Paste-over/Second State/Trunk Cover Capitol Records ST 2553 Stereo
Condition: Cover is VG This cover is clean and bright white
definitely a great acquisition for your collection
(bottom seam is split and wear on top and side). Record is VG
ATTN: This is a stereo copy. Stereo is rarer and more desirable to the collector!
Arguably the most controversial album cover of all time,The Beatles "Butcher Cover" is the infamous original album cover for the 1966 US LP record titled "Yesterday and Today" that was initially authorized and manufactured for release but quickly banned by Capitol records prior to commercial distribution in 1966 due to immediate public outcry and negative response to the outrageous cover art.
Rather than take a financial bath by destroying hundreds of thousands of copies of the albums in question and starting from scratch by manufacturing completely new cardboard jackets and corresponding cover slicks, Capitol records devised a clever scheme to take the existing jackets and cover just the front of the jacket with the more familiar and socially acceptable cover slick now commonly referred to as the "trunk cover". It is called the trunk cover due to the fact that the Beatles are pictured surrounding a steamer trunk which was used as a spur of the moment photographic prop. Initially, Capitol destroyed a great quantity of the original first state butcher covers prior to implementing the plan to cover the remaining offending jackets with the now more familiar trunk cover as an economical solution to a seriously grim situation. First state butcher covers that have been pasted over by the trunk cover at the Capitol factory are known in the collecting community as "Second State Butcher Covers".
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