The Beatles, Please Please Me (1963)
It is no secret that The Beatles did not have a lot of time to work on this album. They merely had four songs when the deadline was approaching, so they recorded seven songs in a single day! It took them 9 hours and 45 minutes to do this. On top of that, John Lennon was suffering from a cold that day. This explains his raspy voice when they recorded “Twist and Shout”. Someone once sold an original copy of the first pressing for $4,200! If your copy has the band name in gold against a black label, you are in luck.
The Beatles, Please Please Me (1963)
Depeche Mode, Music for the Masses
It is the cover art that makes this record even more valuable than usual. The original UK version of this album had a graphic of a white speaker that was releasing soundwaves against a bright orange background. They scrapped this design and replaced it with a photo of a loudspeaker in a desert instead. By accident, the label shipped out several of the old records by mistake. If you own a copy of the album with the old design, you can fetch $4,600 for it like keyboardist Alan Wilder did in 2011.
Depeche Mode, Music for the Masses
