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The world’s leading authority on rare and collectable records since 1979.
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2 months ago

November 2026 issue of Record Collector (589) - available now (see link in bio🔗)

Just ahead of the publication of the 19th Rare Record Price Guide, we have, this month, gone to town (literally: our office is in Fleet Street) and made the latest issue a special on the subject of collectables.

In the world of collecting, people still do break things down into discrete genre parts, to a lesser or larger extent, which is why we decided, for our annual rarities list-a-thon, to invite a series of genre experts to each write an overview on the state of collecting their chosen music specialism – metal, Northern soul, reggae, pop, rock, post-punk, the genres we consider to be hottest right now – followed by a discography for that field of music.

You should, after reading our 14-pager, be able to hold your own (your own copy of the RRPG, a hefty tome to say the least) in any pub conversation on the matter.

We cover the waterfront, genre-wise, in our features this month. Sylvie Simmons meets Elvis Costello to explore in depth the making of his 1977 debut album, My Aim Is True. It’s not the first time that they met – that was, in fact, in 1977 – and hopefully, given the quality of the encounter, it won’t be the last.

Elsewhere, we range freely from metal (Tygers Of Pan Tang) to new wave (The Rezillos), singer-songwriter (Iain Matthews) to avant-garde Sheffield proto-electronica (Clock DVA).

Meanwhile, our 10 Of The Best this month is power pop, we go Under The Radar with Marsha Hunt, and into the Engine Room with Blue Weaver, while Dr & The Medics heard that we missed them and so have decided to come back… and Steve Hackett picks his favourite discs.

Reviews: Beatles, Bowie, Genesis, Echo & The Bunnymen, Richard Thompson…

#vinyl #rarerecord #recordcollector by @recordcollectormag

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18 hours ago

Record Collector Presents: RUSH - Available now 🚀

A timely commemoration of the ultimate power trio: Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart. We’ll go from lift-off Toronto in the 60s to glorious reformation and global delight in 2026, celebrating fifty-something years of some of the most fantastical, original and influential progressive rock music produced in this universe (and the next).

Introduced by superfan rock bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, there’s profiles of the starmen Lifeson, Lee, Peart, plus first drummer John Rutsey, and a chat with Anika Nilles about joining the fold. We’ve then got new interviews from early guiding hand Donna Halper, illustrious producer Terry Brown and longstanding art guru Hugh Syme, Neil Peart memorial sculpture artist Morgan Macdonald – and science fiction don Kevin J Anderson pays tribute to his time spent with Neil before, during and after Clockwork Angels. Collectors stories abound, including an in-depth look at Rush archivist legend Ray Wawrzyniak. and his favourite Rush items – he also compiles an exclusive 50-clue crossword. Then there’s a wealth of album essays by the RC aces, a select UK and US discography, Rush vinyl rarities, The Prog Restorer working his magic on Rush posters, the next gen of Rush influenced bands, a look at RushCon in the US and the low-down on Prog For Peart festival in the UK… It’s immortal, for a limited time (edited by Jo Kendall).

⚒️ Please note: our new website shop is under construction — which is almost ready — in the meantime, copies are available in high street shops.

#RUSH by @recordcollectormag

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22 days ago

Northern Soul: Britain’s ultimate record collecting counterculture.

It isn’t hyperbole to state that Northern Soul music, overwhelmingly on singles, has become the world’s most collectable music format, with over 500 titles that would today fetch four figures or more when offered to collectors and DJs.

Frank Wilson’s Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) stands alone with its six-figure valuation, but it’s far from the only record commanding extraordinary prices.

Collector extraordinaire Tim Brown selects some of the rarest and most collectable Northern Soul 45s — and yes, they can cost a fortune.

NB: Prices shown are based on actual sale amounts. Where no recent sale has taken place, an estimated value is given and marked with an asterisk*

#RecordCollector #Recordcollection #NorthernSoul by @recordcollectormag

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3 days ago

Are sci-fi soundtracks worth collecting? Of course they are.

From sinister synths and avant-garde electronics to grand orchestral scores, science fiction has given us some of cinema’s most distinctive soundtracks – and some seriously collectible records.

In Record Collector No. 587, Felix Rowe selects 10 of the best sci-fi soundtracks to seek out.

🔗Head to the Record Collector website to discover the full selection and read the reviews.

#Recordcollector #scifimovies taken in Jupiter by @recordcollectormag

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8 days ago

💿On this day, @blacksabbath released Paranoid

Released on 18 September 1970, Paranoid remains one of those records that somehow refuses to sound its age.

From the colossal opening of War Pigs and the brutally economical title track to the heavy trudge of Iron Man and Electric Funeral, with the strange calm of Planet Caravan in between, this was Sabbath finding a sound that would cast an enormous shadow over everything that followed.

Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward recorded the album in just a matter of days, yet what emerged helped push rock into a harder, heavier new direction. Paranoid would go on to reach No. 1 in the UK.

More than half a century later, those Iommi riffs still sound immense, Butler and Ward remain one of rock’s great rhythm sections, and Ozzy’s voice is unmistakable from the first second.

56 years on, what’s your favourite track from Paranoid?

#BlackSabbath #RecordCollector #MusicmagazineUk by @recordcollectormag

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14 days ago

With the start of the school year, and considering our slight obsession with records, we thought we’d mark the occasion the only way we know how: with a selection of school-themed vinyl.

From school-day memories and troublesome teachers to rebellion and questioning authority, the classroom has provided plenty of inspiration for musicians over the decades — and, along the way, some rather collectible records.

Daryl Easlea, Editor of the Rare Record Price Guide, selects ten school-themed records spanning decades and genres; from familiar classics to more unusual and collectible releases.

#RecordCollector taken in School time by @recordcollectormag

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15 days ago

It’s nearly half a century since songs that teenage Kate Bush recorded with David Gilmour helped secure her a deal with EMI. Soon afterwards, Wuthering Heights would launch her to stardom – and Bush has spent the decades since inhabiting an almost otherworldly musical realm entirely of her own.

From her theatrical early work to her experimental later recordings, Bush’s catalogue is filled with songs that remain as strange, daring and captivating as ever. Here, we pick 10 essential tracks from a truly singular back catalogue, taken from our 50 Best Kate Bush Songs feature in Record Collector Issue 588, selected by Kris Needs and Lois Wilson.

🎵 Which song do you think should have made the Top 10?

🔗 Read the full reviews of our Top 10 Kate Bush songs – link in bio.

📖 Find the complete 50 Best Kate Bush Songs list in Record Collector Issue 588.

#KateBush #RecordCollector by @recordcollectormag

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17 days ago

October 2026 issue of Record Collector (588)

📢 Retail & Newsagent Distribution Delay: Record Collector Oct 2026 (RC#588), originally published on 3 September, is experiencing a delay to copies supplied to retailers and newsagents due to a printer plant going out of business. The new publication date is currently expected to be no later than 9 September, although retail and newsagent copies may become available sooner. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this unexpected delay. If you have any questions, please contact us here.

What are the greatest Kate Bush songs? She’s got the requisite career longevity and tendency to work in “phases”: your favourite Bush track is as likely to be something that got to No 1 in 1978 (no prizes for guessing) as it is an early deep cut or a B-side picture disc from 2005. Over 14 pages this month, RC’s leading Bush-ologists -- at least one of whom interviewed her at the planetarium in 1985 and is immortalised doing so on photo website Getty – choose Bush’s 50 Best Songs; and we take the radical decision to present them in order of excellence.

If we had to rank 80s synthpop outfits in order of greatness, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Blancmange would inevitably occupy the upper reaches of the countdown. Two members of same – Vince Clarke and Neil Arthur -- join forces with fellow electronicist Benge for a synth-supergroup called Doublespeak. They explain their music and motives this month to RC.

There are a couple of in-depth reports this issue and they couldn’t be more different: one is on what happened to the 90s Seattle music scene, the other on the Northern soul fan who wound up owning a 7” single worth £100,000. Elsewhere, we interview Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, 1976 punks turned 1982 lounge lizards Subway Sect and 80s hardcore Cramps devotee Henry Rollins…

🖋 Reviews: Rise Above Relics, Ten Years After, Trex, Nirosta Steel, Johnny Marr, Roger Taylor, Fat Dog…

#katebush #recordcollector by @recordcollectormag

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a month ago

Meet the collector Nigel Adams

50 years of collecting, an obsession with Immediate Records, a collection sold and rebuilt… and a new rule: records have to be played!

After selling 80% of his collection in 2024, Nigel found himself drawn back to the pastime the following year, inspired in part by an article in Record Collector.

⚠️ A quick note: due to a printing error, part of Nigel’s interview was missing from the latest issue. We’ll be putting that right in the next issue (RC 588), where the interview will appear in full.

#Recordcollector by @recordcollectormag

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Pushing the boundaries of recorded sound, progressive electronic music brought together synthesizers, sequencers, tape manipulation, sampling and experimental production with the exploratory spirit of progressive rock. From the pioneering electronic experiments of the late 1960s to the ambient, kosmische and psychedelic sounds that followed, these records helped redefine what an album could sound like.

This selection of the 10 of the best progressive electronic albums, selected by @jeremiad , traces the evolution of electronic music across five decades.

#RecordCollector #ElectronicMusic #progressiveelectronic by @recordcollectormag

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Formed in Liverpool in 1974, the missing link between 10cc and the Cardiacs, music hall and Roxy Music, Deaf School’s brief run left a lasting impression, far outstripping their commercial success and moving one journalist to declare: “In the whole history of Liverpool music two bands matter most: one is The Beatles and the other is Deaf School.” Witty, inventive, visually flamboyant, and sporting ridiculous pseudonyms, the band remain one of the most idiosyncratic pop entities ever.

Fifty years on from their debut LP, now back on tour and with a new live album completed, four of Deaf School’s founders, talk to Chris Wheatley in the latest issue of Record Collector, to chart the trajectory of this quintessentially British art school outfit…

#deafschool taken in Liverpool, United Kingdom by @recordcollectormag

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