Always full of anecdotes and good musical advice, Philippe Maneuver tells in "It feels good" a rather unknown episode of the Beatles career, remained under the name of "Butcher cover", and which could delight your ears as much as your Bank account.

Rummaging through your old records, those of your parents, or chasing yard sales may be more effective than playing the lotto.

Philippe Maneuver indeed reveals in his book 

A History of Rock in 202 cult vinyls

and at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff that there is a Beatles vinyl that sells for $ 20,000 on the Internet.

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One pocket can hide another

The Beatles caused a scandal in 1966 with the cover of their tenth album 

Yesterday and today.

"

They had dismembered bathers in their arms, they were covered with barbaque, dressed in white coats, like mad scientists. They had a blast doing that," describes Philippe Maneuver.

"It was supposedly to denounce the Vietnam War, she had a good back on the Vietnam War!"

Problem: nobody wants this cover, remained under the name of 

butcher cover

(the cover of the butcher).

The album sells badly, the record company decides to change the visual of the album.

And to cover the old cover with the new visual on the copies already printed.

“From the 1970s, there are clever kids who started steaming the cover that we had put on to rediscover the other underneath,” recalls the 

rock critic

.

For rock historians, this episode has remained as "the Beatles' first misstep".

It precedes the moment when John Lennon created the scandal by saying "We are more popular than Jesus".

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A conditional estimate

But don't go take off the old cover yourself if you hope to get the most out of it!

"If you manage to find a copy in cellophane which has never been opened, and which is in mono rather than in stereo, you can get 20,000 dollars from it on eBay", specifies Philippe Maneuver.

The experts indeed manage to recognize under the plastic packaging a "new generation" sleeve, an old sleeve pasted with the new visual.

But to find this edition of 1966, in mono and in blister, borders on the treasure hunt.

"We have to do the chips, old record stores, etc.", advises Philippe Maneuver all the same.

If this fails, you will still have the scratch cards left.