Attention Beatles fans or record collectors: got an extra $5,000 laying around? That\u2019s the price for a unique piece of the Fab Four. A local record store is offering up an album that was literally butchered by the Beatles.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday\u201d is considered one of the prettiest songs ever recorded by the Beatles. So how did it wind up on an album with a cover like this?<\/p>\n
Giovanni Hanna: \u201c\u2018The Beatles: Yesterday And Today.’\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s with all the bloody slop on the mop-tops?<\/p>\n
Deco went to Fruit Fly Records in Coral Gables to find out.<\/p>\n
Giovanni Hanna: \u201cReally cool picture, it\u2019s cool to see them just as, you know, butchers\/scientists with something you really don\u2019t see in their history ever taking something, you know, a picture this ugly so I think the contrast with this and everything that comes before it is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most fans weren\u2019t ready to see pieces of raw meat and hacked-up doll parts on an album from the boys.<\/p>\n
Giovanni Hanna: \u201cPeople start purchasing them but they quickly get pulled off the shelves and get sent back to the U.K. with the idea that, you know, that this image is a little too much in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their record company made a move to stop the Beatle backlash.<\/p>\n
Giovanni Hanna: \u201cAnd have another image posted on top of it and glued back on top.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the shot most people recognize.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the main reason the record is going for $5,000.<\/p>\n
Giovanni Hanna: \u201cA lot of people, they\u2019re using steam with the idea of peeling this image off so that they can see the image underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n
That version of \u201cYesterday and Today\u201d is up for sale at Fruit Fly.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s filled with songs by the Beatles that have never been on an album before.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve got \u201cDay Tripper\u201d and \u201cNowhere Man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Five-thousand-dollars is a lot to fork over for a record.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s why you might want to dig up the green for this one.<\/p>\n
Giovanni Hanna: \u201cSo with every decade that goes by, the number of copies like this one goes down and they just continue to become a collector\u2019s item.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why would the most famous group of all time pose for a butcher photo at the height of their popularity? Ringo Starr has a good reason.<\/p>\n
Ringo Starr in 1995 interview on \u201cThe Phil Donahue Show\u201d: \u201cIt seemed like a good idea at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n