Vintage vinyl records have a great value today especially if the right person has them on the shelf.
Today, we are talking about the great John Lennon and his copy of the Butcher album. The copy that has been withdrawn from sale in 1966 and the price for it went as high as £180,000.
The controversial Butcher album cover for “Yesterday and Tomorrow” contains original graphics of the Beatles with raw meat and some gruesome imagery which won’t be mentioned here and is also the reason for its withdrawal five decades ago.
The album cover was a work of the Australian photographer Robert Whitaker and as soon as the album hit the US market, it caused a huge outrage. Many people claimed that it was a protest against the Vietnam War.
During a big sale in The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool, the place they kept Lennon’s original copy, it was sold to an American collector who paid an enormous amount of money for it.
The band managed to release the album back in the day with a different cover, one where it shows the Beatles members sitting around a travel trunk. This album was the only one that was loss-making for Capitol Records, the company that released it.
