In the Vinyl Analysis
Last week saw GB stage its second ever vinyl and pop culture auction, and what a day it was.
Now, I thought that the Gallagher brothers couldn’t shock me at all after seeing them live on stage a few times over the years. But in the 30th year of their debut album Definitely Maybe with Liam going out on tour in celebration of the landmark Britpop masterpiece, it was its follow up (What's The Story) that made the headlines of the sale with our signed copy fetching what can only be described as a Champagne Supernova hammer price of £1500, signed, of course, by all five original members of the Manchester massive. A signed copy of its predecessor made £1000 and a signed Creation Records promo picture of the boys found a new home for the princely sum of £500. The vendor definitely maybe wasn’t crying his eyes out at the result!
The collection of noted journalist Rick Sanders was a joy to handle, and believe us when we say that there is more to come later in the year of the same fantastic and extremely rare calibre. A hugely rare advanced promotion copy of Apples and Oranges from the wonderfully whimsical Syd Barrett days of The Floyd was a star at £1700, with a copy of It Would Be so Nice reaching £750. Sometimes things just surprise you from nowhere - now, it would be fair to say that I am not a collector of the Paul McCartney solo back catalogue as such, but another Advanced copy of his first solo single on The Beatles’ fabled Apple label with an estimate of £80-100, left Wellingborough for a cool £240. This was followed by a couple of records from a popular beat combo that Macca once graced in the name of Hello Goodbye and Lady Madonna changed hands for around the £800 mark apiece. No need to wonder how to make ends meet there!
The 1980’s came to the fore - you know - the era when everyone gave up on vinyl because CD’s we obviously so much better, and now all from that era are searching copies on the good old black plastic format - that one, and we saw albums from the legendary Smiths being chased not just by buyers in this country, but across the auction world as a whole with the album Louder than Bombs reaching £95 and a brace of Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead £140. The buyer had good taste - all are incredible albums featuring Johnny Marr, whose iconic guitar sounds sent a whole new generation playing guitar themselves.
With rare posters, fantastic tour programmes including one from the first ever Led Zeppelin UK tour of 1969, artwork, ephemera and all manner of pop culture goodies; our second outing of just over 200 lots was not only a great success, but so enjoyable for the team who had the job of putting on the show. A real privilege with some wonderful items on display.
The results are out now, so please take the time to have a look on our website to see for yourself, then think about what you may have in the attic, garage or under the bed from your musical history and give us a call to find out what it's worth. Not everyone has a signed Oasis, ultra-rare Pink Floyd 45 or gig poster, but, condition being everything to a collector of course, you may just have been hoarding that next top 10 item for our third auction - you just never, ever know!
Happy hunting!!