Rolling Stone reported in May 2019 that John Lennon’s personal copy of the Beatles' "butcher cover" sold for $234,000.

Excellent condition "butcher cover" copies of "Yesterday and Today" will bring five-figures on the auction block. For example, one sold for $17,000 on eBay in May 2024.

First State Butcher album is considered “the rarest record in the world, because there are so many stories wrapped up in this one piece,” Nolan says. The album carries an auction estimate of ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, The Beatles started a five-week run at the top of the US albums chart with a North American exclusive.

View of a Beatles "Butcher" cover at Bonhams and Butterfields' office in Hollywood, California, December 7, 2007. More than 50,000 of the "butcher" record covers may be buried at a landfill in ...

Thousands of the so-called "butcher covers" including the smiling Fab Four holding raw meat and bloody baby doll parts, may have ended up in a Needham landfill.