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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <HTML> <HEAD> <title>AuctionBytes TV Internet Television Video - Collecting Stuff with Gary Sohmers - Beatles </title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta NAME="Author" CONTENT="Ranson's Scripts"> <meta NAME="description" CONTENT="In 1965, the Beatles shot a cover of their "Yesterday and Today" album in protest over decisions made by their recording company. Today, these covers can bring as much as $44,000. Gary Sohmers relates the history behind this collectible album cover."> <meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="access, action, album, america, arms, artistic, artistically, artwork, baby, band, based, beatles, brought, butcher, butchering, calital, capital, carefully, channel, click, collectors, compilation, complaints, condition, conditionthe, controlled, cover, damage, delivered, delivering, dissection, doll, dressed, edition, encyclopedia, england, facts, factsby, features, featuring, finished, gary, george, glued, group, head, holding, important, interspersed, managers, martin, meat, mint, mixes, musical, number, offensive, package, page, pasted, pictures, pieces, plants, played, pressing, producer, protest, public, quickly, recalled, recently, record, recorda, recorded, recording, records, release, released, releases, relevant, removed, rereleased, reutrned, scene, scratched, sealed, seated, selling, slid, smocks, sohmers, sold, spine, splits, sponsors, state, statementa, stemming, store, stores, today, tops, torsos, tracks, trunk, valuable, view, world, yesterday, "> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF"> <CENTER><H2>In 1965, the Beatles shot a cover of their "Yesterday and Today" album in protest over decisions made by their recording company. Today, these covers can bring as much as $44,000. Gary Sohmers relates the history behind this collectible album cover.</H2></CENTER> <BR><BR> Hi … I’m Gary Sohmers and this edition of the Collectors Channel Encyclopedia of Useful Facts is brought to you by the sponsors you have access to on this page … click and view more Useful Facts. <BR><BR> By 1965, the Beatles were the number one selling musical group in the world, and Capital Records controlled the release of recorded in America.  The group were recording in England with producer George Martin, and delivering to Capital the finished mixes for release.  During 1964, Capital took the 2 first LPs released in the UK, and cut them into 3 :releases in America, followed by compilation of old tracks.   <BR><BR> To artistically protest this action of butchering their musical artwork by dissection, the Beatles delivered to Capital an album cover featuring the band dressed in Butcher smocks holding pieces of meat interspersed with baby doll head, arms and torsos.   <BR><BR> The record was released to stores across the US, but quickly recalled stemming from complaints from the public and store managers.  The records were reutrned to Calital pressing plants and a “safe” and “tame” cover of the mop tops seated around a trunk was glued on top of their offensive artistic statement. <BR><BR> A “first state” Yesterday and Today LP is one that pictures the Butcher scene having never been “pasted over.”  A “second state” cover features the Trunk cover pasted on top of the Butcher cover.  The “third state” is a “peeled” Butcher cover, whereby the Trunk cover has been removed … sometimes carefully ... sometimes not so much … value is based on condition. <BR><BR> The second most important part is the spine of the cover, which often splits when a record is slid in and out for use.  Damage to the cover is more relevant than the condition of the record, although the record does add value to the entire package, so a near mint record is much more valuable than a scratched record. <BR><BR> A sealed First State Butcher Cover “Yesterday and Today” LP recently sold for $44,000 – 10<BR>Played re-released “Yesterday and Today” LP recently sold for $3.00 – 1 <BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>