{"id":485731,"date":"2019-05-11T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=834353"},"modified":"2019-05-11T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:05:17","slug":"john-lennon-owned-beatles-signed-butcher-cover-lp-sells-for-234000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/john-lennon-owned-beatles-signed-butcher-cover-lp-sells-for-234000-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon-Owned, Beatles-Signed \u2018Butcher Cover\u2019 LP Sells for $234,000 at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A John Lennon-owned copy of the Beatles<\/a>\u2019 infamous \u201cbutcher cover\u201d version of Yesterday and Today<\/em><\/a>, autographed by three members of the Fab Four, sold for $234,000 at a Beatles-themed auction<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

The vinyl copy \u2013 autographed by Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and featuring a back cover sketch drawn by Lennon \u2013 was the centerpiece of Julien\u2019s Auctions\u2019 The Beatles in Liverpool auction, which featured over 300 items of Fab Four memorabilia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a world record for a Beatles Butcher cover and the third highest price paid for a vinyl,\u201d Darren Julien, CEO\/President of Julien\u2019s Auctions, said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThe market is still developing so we anticipate in the next five years this same record could bring $500,000 plus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The auction house previously set the record for highest price ever paid for a vinyl record, a $790,000 bid for Ringo Starr\u2019s personal copy of the Beatles\u2019 \u201cWhite Album.\u201d<\/a> An acetate copy of Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cMy Happiness,\u201d bought secretly by Jack White in 2015<\/a>, ranks as the second-highest price paid for a vinyl record.<\/p>\n

According to Julien\u2019s Auctions, Lennon\u2019s copy of Yesterday and Today<\/em> \u201cwas displayed on the wall of John\u2019s Dakota apartment in New York City before being signed and given to Beatles fan Dave Morrell, in a trade to obtain the reel-to-reel recording of Yellow Matter Custard that Morrell owned.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe buyer who has asked to remain anonymous is a US collector and bought the record as an investment believing it will increase in value in the years to come,\u201d the auction house added.<\/p>\n

Other highlights from the auction included a baseball signed by all four Beatles at their final U.S. live performance at San Francisco\u2019s Candlestick Park ($75,000), a poster from Liverpool Airport announcing the \u201cVisit of The Beatles\u201d on July 10, 1964 signed by all four Beatles ($41,700) and an acoustic guitar with custom decoration signed by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Buddy Holly ($54,200).<\/p>\n

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A John Lennon-owned copy of the Beatles\u2019 infamous \u201cbutcher cover\u201d version of Yesterday and Today, autographed by three members of the Fab Four, sold for $234,000 at a Beatles-themed auction this week. The vinyl copy \u2013 autographed by Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and featuring a back cover sketch drawn by Lennon \u2013 was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 03:33:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}