Original Beatles Butcher Cover Slick, Mint cond. Framed

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This is an original "Yesterday and Today" Beatles Butcher cover Slick . When this cover was printed in 1966, Capitol Records decided the image was too controversial and killed it. They replaced it at the last minute with the photo of the Beatles in and on a Trunk.I was in the music business at the time and used to go to the printer Queens Litho in Long Island NY whenever one of the artists I was working with had an LP cover being printed. This was to make sure the color and register were correct. One day when I was t, one of the guys I knew who worked at the plant told me that Capitol had just killed the Butcher cover and he showed me a stack of "slicks". Slicks are the LP cover artwork printed on paper before they are pasted on to the cardboard. Some of the "Butcher"covers had already been pasted on cardboard and then covered over with the replacement, which is why you see them for sale occasionally with the later cover peeled off. My friend at the plant informed me that the slicks were to be destroyed but he gave me a few as momentos. This is one of them some 40+ years later. I am showing it both in an out of the studio frame so that you can see the detail, and also the original Queens Litho mark. This is a rare piece of Beatle memorabilia, hard to find and in better condition than the original peeled covers that are available read more

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