Doctored Sgt Pepper's Cover Declared Rarest in World

Worth some $115,000 each, the 100 copies of The Beatles' landmark album featured a slew of different faces.

A doctored version of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that features the faces of record label executives instead of the Fab Four has been named the world's rarest album sleeve. The doctored version was created around Christmastime in 1967 to celebrate the album's astronomical success. According to Record Collector magazine, which released the list of the 10 rarest records, only 100 copies of the album are believed to have been made, and each sleeve would is now worth about $115,000. Four other Beatles' albums cracked the top 10 as well, including their infamous Yesterday and Today cover that featured the quartet dressed in butchers' clothing and holding severed baby dolls, and the original 10 pressings of their self-titled record, or The White Album. The list also includes The Nation's Nightmare, a spoken-word album from 1951 about drugs and crime whose cover was designed by Andy Warhol.