The Beatles Yesterday and Today mono ‘second state’ butcher cover (Capitol, 1966). This ‘second state’ example features the revised ‘trunk cover’ paste over that Capitol Records used to fix the already printed album sleeves in response to public backlash. In very good condition, with tack holes to each corner, light rubbing, small separations at top and bottom edges, and a crack to the spine. The record is not included. 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: a photo of the four mop-tops dressed in butchers’ coats and draped with raw meat and doll parts. 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.
