BEATLES LP - Yesterday and Today - 100% Authentic Mono 3rd State BUTCHER Cover

	£		72
	$		95

After 20 years of collecting, the time has come for me to sell my Beatles collection and let other collectors appreciate some of the records and memorabilia I've accumilated over the years. Please check out my other listings and remember to save me as a favourite seller, as every week I'll be listing more and more increasingly rare, collectible and desirable Beatles records!

Please be aware that all records are VISUALLY graded only - all grades are given based on how they appear under my desk lamp - since I do not own a record player. I cannot guarantee that discs will be click and skip free, although any marks and scratches that might possibly cause such problems will be highlighted clearly in the description.

In 1966 Robert Whittaker was a photographer called to conduct a photo session for Capitol's next LP, 'Yesterday and Today'. Soon, the band were tiring of doing 'another Beatle thing', so Robert decided to do something more unique and pulled out some butcher smocks, baby dolls and slabs of meat. The photos taken during this part of the session were never meant to be taken seriously and were purely to break the mood and have some fun. Unfortunately, nobody told Capitol and they soon picked one of the images taken during that session for the front of their latest release. When the initial copies were sent out to record stores and radio stations the reaction was, as expected, extremely negative. The album was soon recalled - some copies were destroyed (some copies were said to have been dumped in a landfill somewhere) until the decision was made to paste a new slick with an innocent band photo over the top.

The Butcher Cover comes in three states. 1st State is the original Butcher slick that has had nothing pasted over it. 2nd State is a copy with the 'trunk' cover still stuck to the original Butcher and 3rd State is where someone has attempted to peel the 'trunk' slick back off to reveal the Butcher cover underneath. The copy up for auction is for a 3rd state.

Unfortunately this is a pretty poor peel attempt. It was also the first Butcher cover I ever found and I've owned this for the last 16 or so years. The peel itself has left a lot of glue residue and there's still about a fifth of the original trunk cover at the top. There are some tears in the actual Butcher slick itself, mostly around McCartney - the pictures tell the best story regarding the peel. The seams are pretty well gone - the bottom has torn back to the card underneath but the top seems to be holding, albeit very worn. The spine is legible at the top but soon descends into splitsville The back is showing some rubbing damage - most likely when the cover was being peeled.

If someone knows what they're doing then this could be cleaned up quite a bit. The top of the cover is still under the trunk cover and a lot of the white - especially over Ringo - is glue residue that could still be peeled by the right expert hands. I'll also include a reproduction copy of the 'Recall' letter that Capitol sent out to retailers! I bet the cover and the letter will both awesome framed!

Please note - this cover does NOT come with the disc. This auction is just for the actual cover and for a reproduction copy of the recall letter.

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