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The Beatles Yesterday and Today stereo 'third state' butcher cover (Capitol Records, ST 2553), its previously affixed 'trunk' cover professionally peeled from the album jacket to reveal the 'butcher' cover underneath. In very good condition, with light soiling and tape stains to the reverse. Encapsulated by AMG as "Authentic." Accompanied by a mono example of the Yesterday and Today vinyl record.
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; these have frequently been peeled away by collectors to reveal the infamous butcher image below. Stereo covers are much rarer than the mono versions, as they were produced in far fewer quantities.
