Promotional copies of the album were sent out to the media and radio and the reaction to the cover photo was hostile. So hostile, in fact, that Capitol made the decision to change the cover to a photo of the band sitting around a steamer trunk. A few enterprising individuals discovered that it was possible, using steam or chemicals, to remove the second cover to reveal the Butcher cover underneath.
Capitol probably shipped several hundred thousand copies when the album was new, but over time, many of them have been lost or damaged. We have written a comprehensive article about the Beatles Butcher cover. You can read it here. In , the Beatles created their own record label, Apple Records, to be used for their own releases as well as those by other artists signed to the label.
Beatles albums released on the Apple label were pressed by Parlophone in Britain and by Capitol in the United States and were identical in title, cover art, and content. Beatles albums issued in the s in other countries generally followed the UK format, though a few albums issued in Canada, such as Yesterday and Today, followed the U.
In Japan, Beatles albums were issued in both configurations. Later issues were pressed on standard black vinyl. The presence or absence of the obi can greatly affect the selling price. A few other foreign albums tend to attract attention from collectors, including a compilation album from Denmark that shows the Beatles wearing parkas and another from France that shows them riding horses.
In the s, the original Beatles albums from Japan, which were pressed on red vinyl, were the only albums by the band issued anywhere in the world using a color of vinyl other than black. In the late s, record companies began issuing albums by a variety of artists on colored vinyl as limited edition items.
These included a number of titles by the Beatles. In the United States, Capitol Records released the following Beatles albums on colored vinyl in In addition to the colored vinyl albums listed above, a few experimental pressings of Beatles albums have turned up on colored vinyl over the years. These were experimental pressings that were not intended for commercial sale:.
About the same time as the colored vinyl releases, Capitol Records issued two different Beatles albums as limited edition picture discs:.
These were released in die-cut covers that allowed buyers to see the record, which had the artwork from the cover pressed into the vinyl itself. The two titles above were also issued as picture discs in Japan. Abbey Road was issued as a picture disc in Holland, with a different cover and artwork from the U. The first of these appeared in or so, and were recordings of the then-unreleased Let It Be material. Other titles soon followed, initially in plain white covers with rubber-stamped titles on them.
Later issues became more elaborate, with either paper title inserts attached to the cover or properly printed covers. At the time, U. By the mids, Congress changed the laws to make such unauthorized pressings illegal. A few titles, including those issued by the famous bootleg label Trademark of Quality, were released on colored vinyl. The content of these bootleg Beatles albums usually fell into two groups — live recordings from and previously unreleased material. As no authorized live album by the band was available until , bootleg Beatles albums of live material were quite popular in the early s.
Most of the unreleased studio material was of very poor quality, as they were usually made from copies of copies of copies of tapes that had been passed around among collectors. In the late s, a series of bootleg albums issued under the title of Ultra Rare Trax became available and offered exceptional sound quality recordings of several hours of previously unreleased material.
The quality of this material was so good that it eventually led to the release of the three-volume Anthology series in the mids. Early Beatles bootlegs, particularly those on colored vinyl or those pressed as picture discs, remain popular with collectors.
Even though the Beatles broke up in , both Capitol and Parlophone continue to release new albums every few years. These have mostly been compilation albums, starting with the and sets released in Here at Potteries Auctions, we can help determine the worth of your records and sell them at auction.
Check out some of the highlights from the range of Beatles vinyl we had come through our saleroom at our recent Cobridge auction throughout this article. Often what attracts collectors to a particular record will ultimately be the recording artist, and when it comes to record collecting there is no artist that is in demand quite as much as The Beatles.
This is just a small selection of the types of things that collectors will look for when seeking out Beatles records, so as you can see determining their value can be a tricky business! This is where Potteries Auctions can help. If you are looking to buy or sell vinyl records, our team of experts at Potteries Auctions can help. Request a call back if you are looking for an expert evaluation and are seeking to sell some records at auction. Whilst all the different factors might appear confusing, our experts can help identify, value, and sell your records.
Alternatively, give us a call on to arrange an appointment Monday to Friday, 9am-4pm. Read about it in our piece on the making of Led Zeppelin 1. So much so, some profits from the album were used to help fund the filming of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Nice one, Floyd. That fun fact aside, the original pressing on Harvest records is now a valuable collectible vinyl record, regularly loitering around the estimated value mark of a grand if in mint condition.
The first pressing was packaged with a black semi-matt inner sleeve, two posters — one pyramids poster, one group poster — and two stickers.
The Pink Floyd archives has a very thorough run-down of the first pressing. The Sub Pop Erika third pressing SP34, released in and limited to just copies, is hugely coveted and features a inch red and white splattered marble swirl vinyl recording of Bleach , plus Silver on 7 Inch blue vinyl.
A copy still in its shrink-wrap with numbered sticker can command higher figures than the guideline value shown above.
Buy a reissue of Bleach by Nirvana on vinyl. Like the Ozzy album featured further up this list, The Sensual World was reissued on a limited edition copy run of cyan vinyl to help raise money for Unicef. The others were sold in sets bundled with other limited edition Unicef Blue Vinyl.
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