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How much are Beatles album covers worth?

photo source: Album Covers Wiki They have the rare gold and black labels and are worth around $5,900. You can buy the more plentiful mono records for around $1,000.

How can I tell if my Beatles butcher cover?

How To Tell If You Have a Beatles’ Butcher Cover

  • 1) Covers with the “Gold Record Award” seal can NOT be Butchers.
  • 2) On the back, lower-right-hand corner is a number.
  • 3) Lp’s must have a “slick” type cover.
  • 4) Sometimes the “Trunk” slick was pasted on sloppily and ended up offset.
  • 5) “Pictured” to the right.

What is a Beatles butcher cover?

In 1966, before they quit concerts for good, the band pushed the “Butcher Cover” for their upcoming “Yesterday and Today” album. The cover was a gruesome image portraying the boys covered in raw meat, post-baby slaughter.

How do I remove the Beatles butcher cover?

A syringe with a 26gauge by 1 1/2″ needle is a good dispenser for alcohol. To use saliva, just keep your fingertip wet with it (more on this later). trunk portion as this will remove parts of the cover that you want to keep (e.g. the `File Under: The Beatles’ or the `ST 2553′ number that have been pasted over).

How much is a numbered Beatles White Album Worth?

5, copy 0000001 of The Beatles aka The White Album sold for $790,000 at Julien’s auction, a new world record for a vinyl record at an auction. Early estimates for the item placed its value between $40k-60k, an estimate collector demand easily surpassed.

What are the Beatles’ most popular album covers?

One of the most sought-after Beatles album covers, the infamous ‘Butcher cover’ of their June 1966 Yesterday and Today LP in the United States was a piece of conceptual art, taken by British photographer Robert Whitaker. For the shoot, the four Beatles were dressed in butchers’ jackets and draped with hunks of meat and broken parts of baby dolls.

Why are the Beatles’ ‘White albums’ being recalled?

Reason for the recall is the cover art, which shows the Beatles in white smocks surrounded by what appears to be dismembered baby dolls and butcher shop cuts of meat. According to some reliable reports, none of these albums have reached dealer shelves, although some have been received by reviewers and rack jobbers.

Why did the Beatles remove the steamer cover from their records?

Beatles fans discovered that Capitol skimped on a handful of records and began peeling the pasted cover off to reveal the butcher cover. It became an art itself to remove the steamer cover without damaging the butcher cover. It is unknown how many of the butcher album cover were sold to the public before the recall.

Why did the Beatles wear smocks on the Yesterday album cover?

The Beatles decided to use this photograph for their Yesterday and Today album cover. The four normally squeaky clean Beatles had dressed in smocks resembling butcher’s garb with dismembered dolls and pieces of meat dripping crimson. It was supposed to be a bit of fun.