6- Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” single (1977)
Price: $25,300
Before signing with A&M Records in 1977 and release this album, Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed two years earlier.
They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the UK and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians.
However, the fact that they were famous didn’t help the cause when were fired from A&M Records a week later, because of their outrageous behavior.
But, while they were there, recorded “God Save the Queen”, as a promotional single with the intention of releasing it during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee that year.
Of course, because they were fired, none of it happened. And the records were given as farewell gifts to about a dozen top executives when A&M’s office closed in 1998.
A copy with its original mailer was sold in 2006 for $25,300.
