Description: Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge BEATLES BUTCHER RECORD LP COVER RARE 1960S ART POSTER Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Description: BEATLES BUTCHER RECORD LP COVER RARE 1960S ART POSTER Excellent CONDITION 17 1/2" BY 22 1/2" BEATLES PROMO POSTER OF THE LEGENDARY BUTCHER COVER.Whole poster is in a brownish reddish ink... PICTURED ARE JOHN LENNON, GEORGE HARRISON, PAUL MCCARTNEY AND RINGO STARR. MATTE SEPIA COLOR, PRINTED ON A VERY NICE TEXTURED PEBBLE SURFACED PAPER STOCK. VERY CONTROVERSIAL AT THE TIME THEREBY CANCELLED BY CAPITOL RECORDS. I WAS TOLD THAT THIS POSTER WAS MADE AS A PROOF POSTER IN THE 60S WHEN THE RECORD CAME OUT AND I WAS ALSO TOLD THAT THIS WAS AN EARLY 70S REPRODUCTION. When Capitol Records created a new Beatles album by assembling various leftover tracks and releasing them as a record entitled "Yesterday And Today" on June 15, 1966, the phenomenon was nothing new. In the 18-month period between January 1964 and June 1966, Capitol Records (and the United Artists record label) managed to release nearly twice as many Beatles albums in America as had been issued by Britains EMI Parlophone, the Beatles home label. Capitol (and UA) had accomplished this feat through a variety of means: issuing fewer songs per album (typically 11, as opposed to 14 on UK LPs), adding tracks released as singles (typically not included on UK albums), and padding film soundtracks with instrumental versions of songs (see footnotes for details). The "Yesterday And Today" album was typical of this practice, comprising songs excised from the American versions of three other Beatles LPs, plus both sides of an earlier 45. What was *not* typical of this album, however, was its cover. Instead of the usual photos of four happy, smiling moptops, this albums cover offered something quite different indeed: the Beatles, dressed in butchers smocks, adorned with slabs of raw red meat, glass eyeballs, false teeth, and nude, decapitated dolls, posing with sickly, sadistic leers on their faces. When disk jockeys and others who had received advance copies of the album began to complain about its gruesome sleeve, Capitol quickly withdrew the record. All promotional material for the album was destroyed, and it was reissued five days later with a substitute cover photograph of the Beatles leaning on a steamer trunk. As most every casual Beatle fan knows, many of the 750,000 or so original "butcher cover sleeves went back into record stores with a new cover pasted over the old one, and thousands of unwitting record buyers ended up purchasing albums whose covers could be peeled or steamed off to create what would become one of most sought-after pieces of Beatles memorabilia. What possessed the Beatles to create such a hideous, repulsive album cover? Over the years, the myth developed that the Beatles, tired of the way Capitol Records had been cutting up and rearranging their albums for the American market, deliberately planned the grotesque "butcher cover" as a means of protesting Capitols "butchery" of their records. The truth is, however, that the ghastly photograph featured on the "Yesterday and Today" sleeve was not intended as a protest against Capitol Records by the Beatles In fact, not only was the "butcher photo" never intended to be used as an album cover, it wasnt even the Beatles idea. A single photograph from an earlier photo session, taken for entirely different reasons, was used, unfinished and out of context, for the sleeve of Capitols new release. THIS ITEM CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH OTHER WINNING AUCTIONS UNLESS IT IS ANOTHER POSTER OR LIKE ITEM THAT CAN BE PACKAGED SAFELY TOGETHER. ............................. Shipping : We will discount shipping/handling fees on multiple items won (please email first for updated invoice) and paid for at the same time with one payment. Only items that are able to fit in the same package safely, unless stated otherwise in the description. Example a poster that must be shipped rolled cannot be shipped with a poster that is shipped flat. Payment : paypal inkfrog terapeak
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End Time: 2023-09-04T17:40:19.000Z
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