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Valuable Records you might already have.

There are a few really valuable and very rare records that people will pay big money for but you’ve almost no chance of accidentally coming across one of them in a charity store or at a jumble sale, let alone at a second-hand record shop.

However, there’s plenty of stuff people will pay good money for – by which I mean £25 and upwards - that you might have picked up over the years or you might see in a basket in your local dusty emporium for old tat that you could pick up for pennies and flog on eBay for enough money for a good night out and still have money for chips on the way home.

Queen – Keep Yourself Alive b/w Son and Daughter EMI 2036

7” Single released 6th July 1973

This was Queen’s first single and, despite it being one of their finest early numbers, it bombed. It’s so familiar a track that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a big hit and there’d be thousands of copies of it around. But there aren't. So if you see one, or if you’ve got a top-quality copy, you can expect to get at least £25 for it, especially if its in its nice original picture sleeve.

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Neil Young – Neil Young Reprise RSLP 6317

Neil’s first solo album: you’ve seen it a million times haven’t you? The roots of what we came to know as country rock were laid down on this album. Released in November 1968 it didn’t chart but in mid ’69 it was remixed and re-released this time with his name emblazoned on the cover - as you see it here. But if you see a copy and it doesn’t have his name on it, that’s an original 1968 release and if it’s in top nick will get you at least £50. If you’re lucky the old bird who runs the charity shop, despite being in her mid 20s when this album came out, won’t even have heard of Neil Young and will put it in a 50p section. That’s how I got mine.