Most valuable vinyl record (single)

The only known copy of The Quarrymen's (UK) "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger" (1958), recorded at Percy Phillips' home studio in Liverpool, UK, by a pre-Beatles Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, with drummer Colin Hanton and pianist John "Duff" Lowe, is worth an estimated £100,000 ($124,400).

The A-side – "That'll Be the Day" – is a cover of Buddy Holly's 1957 single (credited to "Holly, [Norman] Petty" on the Quarrymen record). The B-side, one of The Quarrymen's first recordings, is the only Beatles song credited to McCartney and Harrison alone.

The tracks were recorded on 12 July 1958. When The Quarrymen split, the acetate was kept by Lowe, who sold it to McCartney in 1981 for an undisclosed sum.

The 1981 reproduction (requested by McCartney) of the original recording of "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger", valued at £10,000 ($12,440), is No.2 in the list compiled by experts from Record Collector magazine and published in the NME on 6 January 2016. Only 25 copies exist of the 1981 reproduction.

The Sex Pistols' (UK) 1977 single "God Save the Queen" (with the catalogue number A&M AMS 7284) is ranked third, with only about 300 copies of the vinyl record believed to exist after it was withdrawn from sale. It's worth £8,000 ($9,955) with the brown envelope and press release, or £7,500 ($9,333) without, according to Record Collector. The controversial hit has been described as "the crown jewel of any punk collection".

Queen, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones and Madonna are some of the other acts featured in Record Collector's list of the top 20 most valuable vinyl records.