Latest news with #PeelSessions
BBC News
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Collection of 30,000 vinyl albums sells for £132,000 at auction
A collection of vinyl records amassed over 60 years has been sold at auction for nearly £132,000, almost double the expected two-day sale was run by Ewbank's in Send, vinyl collection had been the life's work of an unnamed collector, who had recently had estimated the "jaw-dropping" collection would sell for about £80,000. A Peel Sessions collection, featuring artists including Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Nico and Stiff Little Fingers, was expected to fetch between £800 and £1,200, but went for £4, a collection of Rolling Stones albums expected to sell for up to £400 went for £1,235, and a box of records by 90s artists, estimated to sell for between £300 and 500, was sold for £1,430.A box of Jimi Hendrix Experience albums went for more than twice its £500 estimate, at £1,040, and a copy of the David Bowie LP The Man Who Fell To Earth, with an estimated price of £500, was sold for £1, a copy of the Spice Girls' album Spiceworld, which had an estimated price of £340 to £360, sold for £780.
BBC News
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Woking auctioneers to sell collector's 30,000 vinyl records
A collector's 30,000-record vinyl collection is set to go up for auction in Surrey with an expected combined price of more than £80, sale, run by auctioneers Ewbank's in Woking, will be held on Wednesday and unnamed deceased collector had been buying records for more than 60 years and vinyl specialist John Silke said the collection was "jaw-dropping"."This has been the biggest single cataloguing job of my career – an extraordinary experience," he added. A Peel Sessions collection, featuring artists including Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Nico and Stiff Little Fingers, is expected to fetch between £800-£1,200, while a collection of Pink Floyd albums is expected to sell for up to £ Silke said when he visited the collector's home almost every room was filled with records, including the added: "I rifled through a few boxes and then I took 200 photos on my first recce to try to get a grip on what there was. "I spent the next three nights just studying the spines of the records in the photos and it became clear what an amazing Aladdin's cave of music we had found there."
