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collectors pay £700 for seven inch single by long forgotten 1960s band from Glasgow Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport By CLAIRE ELLIOT Published: 19:53 GMT, 30 December 2024 | Updated: 20:21 GMT, 30 December 2024 e-mail View comments They only recorded a handful of singles, but their music earned them the reputation as one of Scotland’s best rock bands of the 1960s. Now more than half a century later, as popularity in vinyl continues to soar and collectors strive to get their hands on original records, former Glasgow band The Poets is seeing buyers paying nearly £700 for its single That’s The Way It’s Got To Be. Vinyl copies are being sold in ‘very good plus’ condition on music market place Discogs for as much as £659.
50 for the two-and-a-half minute track, which featured on the soundtrack for 2006 film Factory Girl and Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster in 1965. Ewen Duncan who owns Scotland’s largest vinyl store Europa Music, in Stirling, believes a combination of the ‘rarity’ of the single and the condition of the record and sleeve reflects the amount fans are willing to pay. He said: ‘The Poets have always been well respected and a very collectible band - and there’s also the rarity of the single and how desperate someone is to get it.
Scots pop band The Poets' 1965 single 'That's the way it's got to be' is selling for £500. The Poets' 1965 single is a sought after release among viny.
