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*Please Notation: This article is now out of date, and a new version will be institute in our October 2022 version, online and in print. Despite countries having to exist bailed out, stock markets in chaos and fifty-fifty gilt on the slide, the price for mega-rare vinyl remains unaffected past the recession. Collectors are however prepared to get all out to achieve those precious artefacts. This list of 200 rarities is simply the tip of the iceberg – the Rare Record Price Guide 2022 lists over 100,000 entries. The Beatles, the Sexual practice Pistols, David Bowie, Queen and Led Zeppelin continue to boss the summit branches, but a massive number of new entries from the belatedly 60s and early 70s have now muscled their mode onto the hot property ladder. Have you got them?
(1969, Evolution Z 1003)
Devotees of Egg, Gong, Khan and Steve Hillage hunger for this album, improvised in one session.
(1971, Decca SKL 5081)
Their second LP sold poorly. This, their third, was released nether contractual obligation with no promotion.
(1956, x" LP Coral LVC 10041)
A Mint copy of this rock'n'roll precious stone sold for £937 this year.
(1956, London HLE 8229)
Gold tri-heart of this doo-wop rarity — silvery label is worth £400.
(1969, Island ILPS 9105)
Demand for this debut LP on the pinkish 'eye' label remains strong.
(1970, individual pressing)
The band made 25 test pressings to secure a deal, failed, split. Engineer Brian Carroll threw away 20 copies!
(1966, Firsthand IM 032)
This Who comprehend sold abysmally, simply got them into this chart!
(1966, Polydor 56124)
Classic freakbeat sold for over a grand on three occasions in 2011 and £755 (Mint) in 2012.
(1979, Rock Hard CPS 027)
NWOBHM rarity that has only recently surfaced.
(1979, 12" Pile Driver HOL 201)
A piece of British metallic history.
(1971, Reflection REFL xi)
A wonderful concept LP tied together past spoken-word pieces.
(1981, EMI 5145)
This 12" brown vinyl mis-printing remains rare as Eddie's teeth.
(1968, Major Modest MMLP 29)
A psychedelic classic: the sleeve sums upwardly its sound and era.
(1965, Brunswick LAT 8616)
Demand for this debut LP is never going to f… f… fade away.
(1971, Deram SML 1091)
Was this LP actually funded by an Israeli poet rather than Deram? Certainly sold like poesy…
(1965, Parlophone R 5510)
A massive freakbeat collectable, despite being widely compiled.
(1962, Oriole CD 1775)
Super-rare early Britain Motown 45.
(1957, Faddy V 9085)
Barely issued! Deficient doo-wop seven".
(1970, Merlin HF 3)
RC reissue has not pricked the toll of this sublime rarity.
(1969, Eye Earth MDLS 302)
A prog psych beast, doubled in value since RRPG 2012.
(1966, Brunswick LAT 8656)
This album was canned. There are still a few floating effectually in circulation with labels but no sleeves.
(1958, Faddy 5 9102)
R&B poor seller equals big bread.
(1972, Kingdom KVLP 9002)
A Kingdom that will not come up to you lot unless you boast very deep pockets.
(1971, Parlophone PCS 7130)
LP withdrawn/poorly promoted by EMI due to scatological sleeve.
(1971, Kama Sutra 2013 029)
Northern soul rarity with instrumental version on A-side.
(1988, Genesis SGH 77)
2,500 sets of lyrics were printed, which came with a 4-rails EP available on CD, or this rare vii".
(1964, Fontana TF 480)
Mod anthem. Daltrey proclaims: "The main thing is unless you're a fool you know, you lot know, y'all gotta exist cool." Peak eBay prices: £1,280, £1,131, £1,130, £1,023 and £947.
(1971, Vertigo 6360 060)
Solo outing from former Affinity vocalist remains an extremely deficient Vertigo swirl.
(1970, SSYB eight)
Prog album with Marvel-inspired cover: rated £350 in 2012 guide.
(1969, Parlophone PCS 7093)
On a few Christmas shopping lists in December 1969, but up £525 from 2012.
(1965, Parlophone R 5250)
Early Bowie: demos (£500) are easier to discover than stock copies.
(1967, MGM 1370)
Psych classic up £200 from RRPG 2012 with not much light betwixt demo and stock copies.
(1968, Columbia DB 8511)
DJs and reviewers were sniffy about this promo 7" despite its postcard and newsletter insert.
(1966, Parlophone R 46006 two)
A-side had stinging overloaded freakbeat guitar, while the B-side chorus sounds similar Banana Splits!
(1970, Deram SML 1073)
MM talent search runner-upwards's jazz/prog album crash landed.
(1973, York FYK 413)
Withdrawn upon release, making this horse difficult to back.
(1967, Philips BF 1588)
RC scribe Kingsley Abbot in one case gave Caleb Quaye a elevator and the guitarist gave him a re-create. Issue.
(1964, Oak RGL 132)
Hard Oak to observe by Tony White (vocals), Chris Marchant (bass), Allen Rimes (guitar), John Steven (guitar), Stanley Vile (drums).
(1969, Page One POLS 016)
These copies of this Caleb Quaye-produced LP accept an insert from the Apple And Pear Development Council. It failed to get up stairs!
(1963, Parlophone PMC 1202)
First and second mono pressings on black/gold label with Dick James or Northern Songs credits.
(1969, Parlophone P-PCS 7088)
Decca pressing for export. Took £1,800 on eBay this year.
(1971, Vertigo 6360 052)
Jazz rock LP: rare instance of Vertigo.
(1964, Oak RGJ 131)
A DIY EP limited to 99 copies, including a hand-pasted sleeve.
(1972, West CSA 104)
This value is for the original limited silk-screen sleeve, not the more common posthumous German language-designed sleeve (£700).
(1966, Pye 7N 17020, demo)
"Retrieve when we used to become to school on Sundays?" This is a modernistic stomper filtered through The Who and The Kinks.
(1966, Pye 7N 17079, demo)
"You lot don't see yourself as another Tommy Steele?" an interviewer asked young David at London's Marquee in 1966. "No, not at all," he replied. But the flip suggests some other Georgie Fame.
(1966, Pye 7N 17157)
"I've got more than friends than I've had hot dinners," bragged Bowie on this Motown cruise. Simply they didn't buy the record.
(1956, London HL-C 8349)
Despite cut 12 U.s. singles, this was Fairburn's lone UK release.
(1970, Fontana 6309 009)
Tuesday's Children became Arbiter and served upwardly this prog LP, panned as "3rd-rate Crimson".
(1970, Reflection REFL 8)
Swaggering LP ranging from the punch of On The Route to the spacey, ethereal Evil Adult female.
(1956, London HLE 8344)
This debut sold poorly. The ring had enough line-up changes to grade an American football squad.
(1973, Venus VEN 105)
Only 25 copies of this anthology featuring a pre-Merely Ones Pete Perrett were pressed.
(1968, MGM 1444)
Psych classic by Jack Make (bass/ vocals), Ian Oates (guitar) and Jack MacLeod (drums) woth ten per cent more since RRPG 2012.
(1971, Deram SML 1079)
Fay'south Life Is People won him a new generation of fans — who will download this rare 2d album!
(1967, Parlophone R5553)
Cutting from a Juke Box Jury testify and withdrawn. Mommy's not the only matter that'south gone.
(1969, Decca LKL 4990)
Mono version of inventive, lush and musically impressive debut LP. "Come and join usa now," crooned Gabriel. Later, Pete, OK?
(1964, Vocalion LAE 587)
Copies of this London session past Knuckles Ellington's tenor sax player keep appreciating.
(1971, SRT 71138)
Our packing guy Richard is certainly non a fan as he helped assemble 750 sleeves for our reissue of this early difficult rocking and folky classic. Easy to run across why they only made 99 in 1971!
(1978, Lightning GIL 534)
Lightning scrapped this release and information technology was thought all copies were destroyed. This finished copy in a motion picture sleeve turned upward in 2002.
(1968, Track 612 008/009)
But issued in stereo in the UK, but Track planned a mono version: this exam pressing is information technology.
(1957, 77 LP2)
Liner states that with "a particular passion for vintage-motor cars, Alexis Korner also finds time to write virtually jazz and blues as well as singing and playing guitar."
(1970, Warlock Music WMM 101/2)
Elton John (piano/vocals), Linda Peters (vocals), Caleb Quaye (guitar), Gerry Conway (drums), Pat Donaldson (bass) performed eleven songs by Nick Drake, John Martyn, Ed Carter and others.
(1993, Happenstance HAPP 001)
50 copies of a private performance of classics like Song For Guy and Sixty Years On. Elton used them as Xmas gifts.
(1966, Regent Sound RSLP 007)
David Gilmour cutting his teeth with this one-sided LP containing Don't Inquire Me, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, You Don't Know What I Know and That'south How Stiff My Love Is. A 7" with the last two tracks is worth £500.
(1969, Fontana STL 5491)
Some other psych archetype, rated at £600 in RRPG 2012.
(Edit)/I Know Information technology (1983, Sire W 9522)
Madonna'south first single fared poorly on UK release. £1,550 on eBay in 2009 and 2012.
(1984, Sire W 9260 P)
Uncut picture disc.
(1985, Sire 8934P)
Ditto…
(1985, Sire W8881 P)
A 12" virginally uncut version.
(1971, Deram SML-R 1086)
With John Lawton from Lucifer's Friend on vocals, this borrows freely from Zeppelin.
(1971, Flams Ltd PR 1067)
This LP, express to 99 copies and very rare, attacked heavy rock with two atomic number 82 guitars.
(1974, Oliv OL one)
Oliver Chaplin cutting this folk/dejection/ psych mélange with brother Chris and "smaller winged creatures." 250 pressed, but this blue sleeve was changed for green (£800) when the championship was hard to read.
(1969, Philips SBL 7893)
Freakbeat with elements of pop/ proto-rock. A stunning sleeve.
(60s, Oak acetate)
An EP that Andrew Mitchell wouldn't appreciate, though he is rich enough to beget one.
(14-LP box set, numbered; 600 signed)(1985, QB1)
Worth this amount only if signed past all members. Uninked: £100.
(1955, Tempo LAP 1)
Debut x" LP past tenor sax, and reissued as 10" LP in 2010 with Japanese liner notes.
(1965, Columbia 33 SX 1733)
Bang-up British Jazz LP. Commencement pressing of Dusk Burn down (£700) is also a affair of beauty.
(1964, acetate)
Cutting by Jagger and Richards as role of a budding song-writing partnership in September 1964 with the intention (unfulfilled) of Marker Wynter recording information technology.
(1964, Decca LK 4605)
This beginning pressing has the 2.52 minute version of Tell Me (Matrix XARL 6272-A). Second pressings with a longer version and Mona or I Need You Baby title on sleeves is £350/£200.
(1973, examination pressings only)
Decca planned this grim 2-LP set of B-sides simply pulled information technology. Matrixes XEAL 12364P-1W/XEAL 12365P-1W, XEAL 12366-1W and XEAL 12367-1W.
(1975, examination pressings but)
Only exam pressings exist of this ditched 3-LP retrospective (Matrixes ZAL 12996, 12998 nine & 13000 one), abased in favour of the double Rolled Gilded.
(1978, Sing SING one)
This punk rarity emerged just as RRPG 2022 went to press but has been added to our online version.
(1974, Parlophone 375)
Ringo sends a personal message to the sales team plugging his single, Only You lot. It didn't work: the single stalled at No 28.
(1983, test pressing)
Troy Tate sessions saw these ii tracks earmarked as a single, but doubts over the quality of the recordings saw it replaced past the John Porter-produced This Charming Man. 25 copies.
(1985, Rough Trade RT 186)
vii" of the scrapped alive EP from Oxford Apollo, eighteen March 1985.
(1985, Crude Trade RT 186)
12" also prepared as a test press with 2 actress tracks shows just how shut this EP came to release.
(1965, Columbia SX 6042)
The pianist with Dave Tomlin (soprano sax), Tony Reeves (bass) and John Hiseman (drums): three covers, iii Taylor originals.
(1967, Deram DM164)
The legacy of Dan Smith (guitar), David McTavish (vocals), Stuart Mckay (bass) and Jon Dalton (drums) is this psych curiosity.
(1970, Parlophone DIP 515)
Lizzy started 42 years ago with 500 copies of this Irish-only 7". Sold 283: the rest were junked.
(1980, CBS 7951)
There are only 50 copies of this brownish vinyl mispressing in existence for U2 fans to dream of.
(1982, CBS PAC ane)
CBS Republic of ireland milked their slim catalogue. This white vinyl presentation pack of their four singles is the most limited variant.
(1987, Island 6-one —U2 6-5)
Arguably the greatest of the grouping'southward albums, it was sent to journalists and radio stations equally v singles. These 50 sets accept Red Loma Mining Town pressed on both sides. Hideously rare.
(1988, U2-7)
Flying case of goodies including a CD and cassette of the album, which many hacks swiftly sold.
(1966, Blue Horizon LP2)
This 2d LP from Mike Vernon'due south characterization has "VER. LP/124" on the left-mitt side of the black-and-white label, while "LP.ii" appears on the right.
(1987, 4AD CADX 703)
One hundred of these special boxes were made. Containing LP, CD, cassette, video and etching curated past designer Vaughan Oliver, complete sets retain their toll as about have items missing.
(1963, Oriole CBA 1809)
UK Motown poultry denture 45.
(1969, Apple tree APPLE viii)
EMI took a dim view on "Fuh Rex" around and Stephen Friedman's allusive vocal was canned. A £400 rise in price since RRPG 2012: fuh king Ada!
(1970, Philips 6308 019)
Mint originals of this folk/psych LP keep ascent in value: copies have hit £1,200+ on eBay.
(1972, Vertigo 6360 074L)
Massive increase in the cost of this Vertigo rarity due to the impossibility of finding an undamaged Mint dice cut embrace.
(1978, Enigma PSS 139)
Commencement pressings of this self-financed EP have serrated edges around the rim of the label and different label contours to well-known bootlegs that replicate the original matrix generally without the "EG" in the run-off groove of original copies.
(1973, unissued one-sided acetate)
Zep placing themselves on the event horizon of a blackness hole where reggae hits doo-wop. This acetate suggests that plans to release it as a 7" in the United kingdom were scotched by the ring. Irie.
(1969, Morgan Bluetown BT 5002)
The middle-catching sleeve fine art reflects the beguiling psych-pop of tunes such as Come Dorsum June.
(1975, Alida Star ASC 7755)
Folk LP helmed by married couple Mandy and Mike Morton, pressed and sold in tiny numbers.
(1979, Parlophone DIP 515)
The label pressed upwards 2 7"s for export to this band's native Iceland, plus this EP that came with a free copy of their 2nd unmarried If Y'all Knew/Honey Plenty.
(1975, EMI MARC 12)
With New York Metropolis getting to No xv and Dreamy Lady to No 30 in July and Oct 1975 respectively, Christmas Bop was scheduled for a festive release and so cancelled. All that remains of this aborted platter are 2 labels. This is the price for 1!
(1964, 1064, Airborne NBP 004)
10" LP limited to 99 copies to avoid sales tax, marker the long-playing debut of jazz pianist and composer Michael Garrick.
(1964, Vocalion Pop 5 9221)
Stock copy of the single that introduced Bowie to the globe. For the demo version read on.
(1969, CBS 4540)
Sunshine has elements of indie ring The Delays and a lead singer with a tendency to go all falsetto during choruses. Scarlet Chalk Hill is like a conflation of Bowie and Barrett songcraft.
(1957, London HLP 8391)
The Barons issued five singles on Royal betwixt 1954 and 1956, just only the last was issued hither. VG re-create sold on eBay for £ane,400 in 2007 and Skilful (£600) 2008.
(1963, Parlophone 45-R 4983)
Promos of The Beatles' second single were sent out around Christmas 1963 to support a January release. Along with Dear Me Practice, the rarest Beatles demo.
(1971, Gem BOWPROMO 1)
In social club to secure tape deals for David Bowie and Dana Gillespie, Tony Defries pressed 500 copies of this showcase LP with no cover/labels only matrixes that prove who the main human being was — BOWPROMO 1A-1 and BOWPROMO 1B-ane.
(1977, RCA BOW-1E)
There must take been nervous executives at RCA when Bowie delivered Low with one side total of instrumentals. To smooth the path these one-sided vii" demos were distributed containing edited versions of the vocal tracks.
(1956, London HLU 8297)
Spoken-word blues from songwriting legend: sold nowt.
(1969, Apple SAPCOR 7)
So enthused was George Harrison about signing this group that he neglected to notice that they'd already joined Elektra. Apple tree only got so far as these exam pressings.
(1971, Vertigo 6360 048)
This Vertigo LP has gone from £500 in RRPG 2010 to £1,500 today. About impossible to find with an intact Gimmix sleeve.
(1972, Midas MR 003)
This band was thrown together for school concerts in the Bristol expanse, staying together to tape this 500-re-create album. Half the pressing was flood damaged…
(1974, Merlin HF 4)
The partnership Peter Howell forged with John Ferdinando began to fall away as his BBC work began to predominate. Their last anthology never got beyond this lonely test pressing.
(1969, Columbia SCX 6271)
By 1969 The Koobas had built psychedelia into their Merseybeat musical Deoxyribonucleic acid. The LP hardly sold, making information technology a massive rarity.
(1969, Atlantic 588 171)
The toll has jumped up since RRPG 2012. First pressing with turquoise sleeve, "Superhype Music/Jewel Music" credit and the matrix numbers 588171 A//ane and 588171B//1. If an "8" is crossed off, information technology'due south a later pressing.
(1969, Atlantic 584 309)
Atlantic tried to release this single on 5 November and demo copies were dispatched. Zep's manager Peter Grant used his iron fist to ensure that the label respected his band's wishes not to issue 45s in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. The release was aborted.
(1969, Elektra EKS 74046)
This band thought the release of their commencement LP on Elektra would constitute their reputation, only characterization boss Jac Holzman cancelled the record's release. Only this rare acetate on two discs survives.
(1970, Fontana STL 5541)
Around 200 copies of this perfect baroque popular collection were sold.
(1972, Apple R 5932)
McCartney dropped this single for Give Ireland Back To The Irish after being appalled by the Bloody Sunday massacre. These TPs are McCartney holy relics.
(1967, Columbia DB 8156, motion picture sleeve)
Demo copies of this first unmarried came in a picture show sleeve and bruised the Top xx. Sell-outs!
(1967, Columbia DB 8214)
The train artwork for this promo picture sleeve was drawn by Syd Barrett, calculation to its cachet.
(1967, Columbia DB 8319)
Last Syd Floyd 45, November 1967: it flopped. Price is for lusted-afterward pic sleeve demos.
(1970, Fontana STL 5540)
The RC reissue of this fab LP allowed 500 buyers the pleasure of hearing Brain Worker and Expiry Letter on vinyl.
(1963, Decca F 11742)
This single was to exist released on 26 August, but was dropped for I Wanna Be Your Man (£20).
(1966, Bluish Horizon LP one)
Ross recorded this album for Mike Vernon'south fledgling label on twenty October 1965. 99 copies were pressed up to avert sales tax.
(1977, Virgin VS 181)
Richard Branson charily ordered these plain blue sleeve samples to sheath the Pistols' first Virgin single in case Jamie Reid's cover was banned.
(1971, Vertigo 6360 043)
Vertigo dressed this debut LP in an elaborate sleeve. The Social club shut when Linda Peters left to join Richard Thompson.
(1969, MGM 1465)
The Uglys cutting five singles before catastrophe up at MGM, where these tracks were pressed on a scattering of demos before being ditched.
(1980, CBS 9065)
U2 signed a worldwide deal with Island in March 1980, though the contract allowed CBS Ireland to release two Isle singles. I Will Follow (WIP 6656) was issued in a number of formats with these 50 chocolate-brown vinyl mis-pressings being peculiarly scant.
(1981, CBS 12-7951)
U2's debut EP — Out Of Control/Stories For Boys/Boy- Girl — was issued in Republic of ireland in 1979, with colour vinyl variants in 1980. In 1981, it was reissued as a 12", with this limited edition first pressing of one,000 orange vinyl (with numbered stickers).
(1958, Parlophone R 4398)
This cover version of Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue was only issued equally a demo copy in the UK.
(1964, Vocalion Pop 5 9221 demo)
Bowie'southward manager Leslie Conn negotiated a one-off deal with this Decca subsidiary (and was named on the A-side as a songwriter). It flopped. Conn's mother threw 200 copies out of her garage.
(119 EMI EM 280)
Intended equally the first single from The Reddish Shoes, EMI went with Rubberband Girl instead, though some finished copies were pressed. EMI destroyed most of these.
(1964, acetate)
The time to come Marc Bolan cut this session in Dec 1964.
(1955, London HL 8114)
The United states of america canvass music boasted: "Recorded on Dootone records past The Penguins — on Mercury records by the Crew Cuts — on Capitol records by Les Baxter — on MGM records past Pat O'Day — on Sound records by Gloria Mann." The U.k. shrugged.
(1983, Rough Merchandise RT 131)
Handed to Rough Trade'south Geoff Travis later the band'due south first London gig at the Stone Garden, the label agreed to release it and these five TPs are the first time The Smiths were cut into vinyl.
(1970, private pressing)
A wonderful psych confection, this LP has sold for over £two,500. Simply added to the online guide.
(1968, Apple PMC/PCS 7067/8)
While the price for numbers 1-10 of this edition can become for £7,000, numbers eleven-thou take this more conservative value. No xx (mono) has gone for £ii,900 in VG, No 56 (mono) for £2,250 in VG+ and No 483 (mono) for £ii,627 in Excellent, while copy No 499 (mono) went for £839.
(1969, Odeon PPCS 7070)
The rarest Beatles export album, with an Odeon label and Odeon sticker on the rear of the Apple sleeve. How many of these were removed by punters at the fourth dimension, not thinking that they were devaluing their inheritance?
(1977, Private Stock PVT ninety)
The price for this withdrawn Blondie 7" has doubled in two years. Originally "Sex activity Offender", merely softened past La Harry.
(1970, Mercury EMF 1135)
Bowie expected this single — his first for Mercury — to chart, but coming eight months subsequently his infinite novelty, it sold a mere 800 copies. This Irish pressing of the single is utterly, hideously rare.
(1969, Rubbish, no cat no)
Elton John (piano), Caleb Quaye (guitar), Bernie Calvert (bass), Roger Pope (drums), Lennox Jackson and Rolfo (percussion) play covers. Decca rejected it, and so the band pressed upwards these test pressings in a handmade sleeve.
(1974, Thor 1007 Due south)
Jim Rorrison (drums/vocals), Hugh Finnegan (bass), Alan Bryce (organ) and Ian McEleny (guitar) played Scottish clubs and cut this LP. They carve up in 1975. A runway like Blindness opens with a lovely organ fugue before oozing into backwater Floyd.
(1954, Columbia SCM 5133)
Some other doo wop doo flop.
(1954, Columbia SCM 5119)
One of the first rock'n'ringlet records, broken over the airwaves in America past DJ Dick 'Huggy Boy' Hugg. Did zilch in the UK.
(1972, Sister 0102)
Forty more common LPs in single monochrome sleeve (run across entry #21).
(1969, Advance, Individual Pressing)
Reflected the eight stages of a honey affair from The Meeting via The Joy to The Grief. Music ranged from the organ-led Mary The Painter to the Zombies psych-patrol of Meliorate Things Are Bound To Come. 99 pressed.
(1971, Track 2408 101)
A pressing institute experiment on red vinyl with three or four known copies. The same as the black vinyl pressing of Hendrix'due south 4th (and first posthumous) anthology down to the matrix numbers — although the B-side label is from The Very Best Of Bert Kaempfert. Hmm.
(1969, EMIdisc acetate)
Atlantic sent out demo copies of Communication Breakdown/Practiced Times Bad Times (584 269, £700) in April 1969, but Peter Grant stopped the release. This i-sided acetate of the B-side has EMIdisc or LDC labels. Whole Lotta Beloved (Edit)/Whole Lotta Beloved (Edit) acetate (1969), is as well £2,000.
(1974, EMI PSR 369)
"Yeh, I'd like to say howdy to all of you. If I was there I would come up and see you. The message is, you know, if you lot like information technology sell it, if y'all don't, try and sell it anyway cos we're all in the same business," Lennon tells the EMI sales force.
(1972, Deram SDL 7)
Up £500 from its valuation in RRPG 2012, Argent Song and Sheep Flavour are two examples of compelling acid folk made mystical by the vocals of Clodagh Simonds and Alison Williams.
(1990, HMV no cat no)
EMI had this remixed for a 12", but when Mozza heard it he demanded all copies be destroyed. This solitary re-create survived.
(LP, padded silk sleeve, 1967, Decca TXL/TXS 103)
Back in 2012 I asked if anyone has seen i of these promotional padded sleeve editions. A dealer came frontwards with a copy of the album in what looked like a padded silk frame. If authentic, it would probably be one of the rarest Stones promos.
(1969 Decca RSM. 1)
Sent out prior to Permit It Bleed to remind DJs in the UK and United states of america of the Stones' back catalogue, the second side on this version ends with a different mix of Dearest In Vain to the released cut. The anthology was besides a hybrid, with US copies on the London label (catalogue number RSD i) and the UK copies on RSM 1 (Decca label): 200 copies per territory.
(1983, Rough Merchandise RT 131)
Later pressing of debut 7", with the sleeve accidently printed in blueish/negative colours, making it hard to distinguish the naked man on the front.
(1972, ROR ROR 2001)
Starr and designer Robin Cruickshank entered a business partnership to design and marketplace steel and glass furniture. When Liberty's held a one-week exhibition of Cruickshank'due south article of furniture this i-sided interview with Starr was sold.
(1972, Track 2406 009, acetate)
Simon Napier-Bell planned to cash in on Bolan'southward success by releasing early recordings to which he owned the rights. Bolan went to courtroom to block the release, but Napier-Bell had already made test pressings (£800). The Bopping Elf won. It famously features Bolan telling someone, "Fuck off or proceed absurd, you know," before launching into Jasper C Debussy.
(1964, Parlophone GEP 8899)
In May 1964, EMI executives held a secret meeting cancelling the Golden Discs EP, rush releasing the Long Tall Sally EP (on nineteen June). This cleared the fashion for a single and LP launch on 10 July, capitalising on the film A Hard 24-hour interval's Dark. All that remains of Golden Discs is two test pressings (7TCE 1N & 7TCE 1N) and a sample fix of labels. This toll is for either examination pressing or the labels — not both together.
(1968, Apple no cat no)
This press kit launched the starting time four Apple tree singles. The 4 7"southward by Jackie Lomax, Mary Hopkins, The Black Dyke Mills Band and The Beatles came in plastic sleeves with band bios and photos. This price is for rarer sets in matt plastic boxes rather than the more mutual card ones.
(1970, Octopus OCTO one)
Ride A White Swan was to announced on Octopus, the new label being launched by Bolan'south music publisher David Platz (with Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp from Track). These test pressings have OCTO one in the run-out groove. When the label was launched in October 1970, its proper name was inverse to Fly, then Ride A White Swan/Is It Love became BUG 1.
(1956, London HLU 8247)
Bill Haley had a monster hit with his version of Bobby Charles' tune. The Chess original was called Subsequently Alligator but changed to See You Later Alligator when London tried to greenbacks in on Haley's success in March 1956.
(1957, Brunswick 05669)
Cochran was xvi when he recorded this song near falling in dearest with a shop assistant. Time has not curbed its drive. In 2010 a copy took £2,000 on eBay.
(1957, Parlophone R 4279)
A battered copy sold for £265 in 2005, testifying to just how few copies exist. The Low Road is an boilerplate ballad, but the souped-upwards flip could give you lot palpitations.
(1973, acetate)
A immature Paul Weller (bass/vocals) cutting his studio teeth with Dave Waller (guitar), Steve Brookes (guitar), Rick Buckler (drums). 6 copies are known to be.
(1971, Decca SKL-R 5094)
Leaf Hound emerged from the ashes of Black Cat Basic with a line-upwardly of Stuart Brooks (bass), Mick Halls (guitar), Keith Young (drums) and Peter French (vocals). This LP inappreciably sold and is now one of the acme 70s rarities.
(1972, Apple R 5953)
A single in America in Apr 1972, EMI cancelled a United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland issue every bit it was thought the title would offend. These test pressings exist.
(1992, Maverick WO13 TP)
Though Madonna can't compete with Lady Gaga or Florence & The Machine when it comes to Britain collectables, the 138 copies of this withdrawn 12" toe-sucking picture disc are sought past fans and foot fetishists.
(1981, CBS A 9568)
A handful of copies in finished picture sleeves that credit Independence Solar day as the B-side. When officially released in February 1981, the B-side was changed to Be True. White label promos become for upwards to £ii,000.
(1977, Virgin VS 188)
Virgin decided to release this as a 12" in a special 3D sleeve rather than giving a seven" the same treatment. Only 50 finished sleeves in the smaller format are thought to have been made. This price is for a Mint 7" and sleeve.
(1963, Parlophone PCS 3042)
A transitional pressing betwixt the black/gilt and the yellow/ black label with "33â…"" on the label from the initial pressing.
(1968, Parlophone P-PCS 7067/8)
EMI had to contract Beatles pressings out to other companies to meet demand. These "contract" pressings require real expertise to uncover. This Decca version of "The White Anthology" has no EMI stamper letters (D or G) in the run-out grooves and a round impression about 15mm from the edge of the label. A re-create sold for £7,100 in March in EX+/ EX+, though another re-create drew a more than prosaic £3,100 in 2010.
(1969 Philips BF 1801)
In the wake of the film 2001 and the get-go landing on the moon, Philips idea that they had a hit on their hands. This particular seems to suggest that there were plans to launch the tape in an center-catching movie sleeve, which was uncommon for UK singles at the time. Information technology was subsequently issued in mono and went Pinnacle 5.
(1961, acetate)
Believed to feature Jimmy Page's (aged 17) first recordings. There are only 2 known copies in circulation (of six cut).
(1972, Sis 0102)
This Northampton band, led by Steve Giles on guitar and vocals, found it difficult to make headway performing original material. Giles took Dark into a studio in Apr 1970, but when they went back for five days in 1972 the line-up had changed to Giles, Ron Johnson (bass), Clive Thorneycroft (drums) and Martin Weaver (guitar). This second version of the tape is express to eight copies and comes in a blackness-and- white handmade gatefold sleeve, some containing a booklet.
(1958, MGM 956)
Ron Hargrave's sped-up version of country ditty Latch On is and so fast it's almost punk. US copies are cheap, but at that place are only a handful of UK pressings.
(1970, acetate)
Zep dominate Peter Grant flattened Atlantic UK'due south attempts to sneak out 7" singles: this one-sided slate is evidence of thwarted plans.
(1969, Apple tree APPLES 1002)
The A-side was a Beatles track, but after completing his version on 26 Nov 1969, Lennon planned to consequence it equally a solo 7". The other Beatles prevailed upon him and a Beatles version was coupled with Let It Be. The B-side to this acetate featured Lennon, Harrison and Ono "out of our heads on the floor at EMI" — shorthand for a wonderful psychedelic musical experiment.
(1968 Apple APCOR 2)
In the wake of the disrespect that was "The White Album", it was no surprise that McCartney and Lennon began to explore tape loops. John found a new muse in Yoko and this album emerged out of a crazed all-night session where she could wail "who'southward theeeerree?" and Lennon could ape Peter Sellers and retort, "It'southward simply me, Hilda!" Lennon insisted on a release and EMI relented. They were especially reticent when Lennon submitted the naked photograph he wanted to use for the cover. Most of these mono copies were destroyed when Lennon demanded that the record exist remixed in stereo.
(1969 Decca LK/ SKL 5028)
This East Stop band cutting their teeth on the pub circuit as The Blitz, with two flop singles for Decca. Their working of Spanky And Our Gang's Lazy Twenty-four hour period tapped into the psychedelic vibe, so producer Vic Smith suggested a new proper name and it was released equally by Tinkerbells Fairydust. Lazy Day and a follow-up did not hitting, and anthology sessions were halted later 8 songs. The band was dropped by Decca. Test pressings were made of a 13-rail LP, as well every bit a small number of albums with labels in finished sleeves. In that location are iv known copies of the finished LP with labels.
(1964, acetate)
The name "Marc Feld" is crossed out on the label of this acetate and "Toby Tyler" has been hand-written. Tyler became Marc Bolan and it's fascinating to hear him covering this Dylan vocal on acoustic guitar and harmonica. Both tracks were recorded in December 1964 at Maximum Sound, along with The Perfumed Garden Of Gulliver Smith.
(1978, EMI EMI 2375)
Price is for the hand-numbered blueish vinyl single alone (see entry numbers 15 and viii).
(1978, EMI EMI 2375)
Price is for a re-create in a pic sleeve in an EMI "conveying envelope".
(1968, Immediate IMCP 009)
Andrew Loog Oldham's label hit a fiscal iceberg and the only survivors were these 100 finished promo copies. The grooves were packed with psych-tinged pop, with invitee appearances from The Pocket-size Faces, Nicky Hopkins and an orchestra. A copy sold on eBay for £7,312 in 2009 and a VG+ copy went for £3,212 in 2007.
(1972, Sis 0102)
This band gets another entry with a small individual pressing of their album: 12 copies in colour sleeves and booklet inserts — super rare.
(1967, Track 604005)
Andy Ellison sang at a concert to mark the 35th anniversary of Marc Bolan'south death: Bolan was briefly in Ellison's band, John'south Children. They'd released 2 singles by the time Simon Napier-Bong eased Bolan into the group as a songwriter, with Desdemona becoming their third failed single. The waft of Midsummer Night's Scene was intended as the follow-up, but was withdrawn: stock copies impossible to find.
(1963 Parlophone PCS 3042)
In previous guides we've given the same price for first and second stereo pressings of Please Delight Me, but in this edition nosotros give the offset a slight border over this second pressing with the right Northern Song publishing credits.
(1976, acetate)
A i-sided acetate from 1976 featuring the three-infinitesimal, 36- 2d version of this punk classic cut during the ring's cursory stay with EMI. Has sold for £12,000.
(1962, Parlophone 45-R 4949)
Demo copies of the offset Beatles single take soared from £3,000 to £5,000 from the last guide, cementing its position every bit the most sought-afterward unmarried by the group. Only 250 copies were pressed in 1962 to secure airplay and reviews for Parlophone'south latest signing. Paul's name was spelt "McArtney". A copy sold for £12,000 in 2012.
(1978 EMI 2375)
At a time when EMI has been flogged to Universal, it must be galling to look dorsum to 1978 when the characterization won a Queen's Award For Industry, jubilant in fine style at a dinner in Selfridges in London's West End. This special limited blue-vinyl edition 7"of Queen'due south best-known recording was limited to 200 copies and given away to guests, executives and, probably, the band. As well as the vinyl there was a goblet, handkerchief, card cards, boxes of matches — fifty-fifty a pen. This price is for the lot.
(1963, Parlophone PCS 3042)
Parlophone had used the blackness/ gold characterization for all album releases from 1957. The release of The Beatles' debut coincided with a conclusion to redesign the label with a fresher yellow/black blueprint from March 1963. By that time, the get-go ii pressings of Delight Please Me had been manufactured on black/gold labels. EMI merely made a small pressing of each batch in stereo, and this outset pressing has famed Dick James Music credits.
(1968, Apple tree PMC/PCS 7067/8)
This 2-LP set holds the distinction of topping the charts upon release and existence the rarest LP in the UK. What makes it so collectable is the conclusion past sleeve designer Richard Hamilton — in conjunction with Paul McCartney — to brand each re-create with a unique number, thus every edition of "The White Album" — mono or stereo — was express. Beatles collectors' lust for low numbers and, back in November 2009, a mono 0000005 sold for £19,201, sleeve in VG condition. At the other end of the scale an EX++ copy (with creases on the sleeve) of 0000023 took £3,990.
(1977, acetate)
An irate rock'due north'scroll collector rang up to country that a Mint copy of Elvis Presley's Blueish Suede Shoes on gilt/royal HMV was worth "10 times" more than any Pistols acetate. Non so. There are three known copies of this particular.
(1977, A&M AMS 7284)
Thrown off EMI for deploying what the Daily Mirror deemed "the filthiest language heard on British tv", the Pistols were snapped up by A&Thousand. Anti-social behaviour saw the band thrown off the label similar a shot. Though 20,000 copies of God Save The Queen were pressed, most were destroyed, making information technology vitally collectable.
(1977, acetate)
These few acetates were deployed by the late Malcolm McLaren to secure the band a new deal and gigs after the EMI debacle. Priced at £6,000 in the RRPG 2012, they have increased in value by sixty per cent in the wake of one selling for £12,630.
(1981, vii" 45rpm and 10" 78rpm replicas of 1958 acetate in reproduction die-cut Parlophone sleeve)
In 1981, John Duff Lowe sold Paul McCartney The Quarry Men acetate for an undisclosed sum. McCartney took the acetate to Abbey Road for restoration, removing pops and clicks before making a individual pressing of 20 to 25 copies on 10" and 30 to 50 on 45rpm 7". The labels reproduced the original with no mention of The Quarry Men. At Christmas, George, Ringo and others received copies. This version of In Spite Of All The Danger is just shy of 4 minutes, every bit opposed to the abridged version on Anthology. Information technology has never materialised on eBay.
(1958, acetate)
On 12 July 1958, a young Paul McCartney visited a recording studio for the starting time fourth dimension with The Quarry Men. The five-piece — John Lennon, (guitar/vocals) George Harrison (guitar), John 'Duff' Lowe (pianoforte), Colin Hanlon (drums) and Paul paid either eleven or 17 shillings and 6d. You tin imagine the excitement and pride when they got home and gathered around a 78rpm record player to listen to their efforts. The acetate was passed around and when The Quarry Men split, ended upwardly with John Duff Lowe. £200,000 and worth every penny, we approximate.
Source: https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/200-rarest-records-2
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