The Wikicollecting Top 10 Most Expensive Beatles records

A 1962 Decca release of My Bonnie/The Saints in the US by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles sold on eBay for £4,000 in June 2011.

Earlier forms of My Bonnie had been released in the UK but this version was the first to appear in the US. Such versions are today highly collectible.

A copy of the UK release of the Beatles’ second single, Please Please Me, signed twice on both sides by all four members of the band, was sold at auction for £9,060 in August 2011.

The sale took place as part of the annual Beatles Convention, and was held in the Paul McCartney Auditorium at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

The rare single was sold by a local woman from Liverpool, who had acquired the signatures after seeing the band perform at the Cavern Club in the city.

A 1967 Sgt Pepper album, signed by John, Paul and Ringo, sold for £12,000 at a Copper Owen’s auction in October 2005.

It was signed for one of the Apple Scruffs, the group of Beatles fans who used to congregate around the Beatles’ Apple Corps building in London and the Abbey Road studios.

This rare US-issued LP features songs by the Beatles and British pop singer Frank Ifield.

It was released in 1964 by Vee-Jay, shortly before the company’s right to publish Beatles material expired in October of that year.

Stereo versions of the album are particularly rare, which explains why a copy sold for £13,500 in 1995.

The Beatles Butcher Cover is the album cover initially used for the Beatles’ 1966 US release Yesterday and Today.

Famed for its controversial depiction of the Fab Four with bloody meat and dolls’ limbs, most copies were posted over with a more conventional cover by record company Capitol.

A factory sealed Butcher Cover album sold for £16,000 at Heritage Auction Galleries in February 2011. It is thought there are only 25 sealed copies with the original cover in existence.