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The Beatles Yesterday and Today stereo ‘first state' butcher cover album slick (Capitol, ST2553, 1966). This unused, uncut ‘first state' slick features the notorious 'butcher' cover in which the Beatles are seen in butcher smocks draped with meat and plastic doll parts. This uncut slick retains the printer's text along the upper right edge, "QU LITHO IN US T-2553," which would have been trimmed off in the production of the album jacket. A banner across the top advertises: "New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo." In very fine condition.
Within days of releasing this miscellany of previous hits, Capitol recalled all copies in response to retailers' negative reactions to the original macabre cover image. The recalled copies were 'retrofitted' with a new pictorial flat, pasted over the first, featuring an innocuous image of the boys posed around a steamer trunk. First-state versions of the infamous Beatles butcher cover, especially of the rarer stereo variety, are among the most desirable and elusive of all Beatles collectibles.
