The Beatles (Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers) My Bonnie/The Saints 45 (Decca 31382, 1962), the top offering of the many Beatles-related lots in the auction, is the rarest of the US Beatles singles, even rarer than the pink label promo version of the same record.
It went nowhere when it was released, said Barret, and most of the few copies pressed were trashed, which explains why the promo copies actually outnumber the stock commercial version.
As years passed and collectors became historians, the release attained more and more stature as an extreme rarity. There are likely only 20 to 25 copies of this in existence and weve never seen on better.
The rarest of all U.S. 45 Beatles singles, a mint condition stock pressing of 1962s My Bonnie/The Saints, with the Fab Four as the back-up band, estimated at $30,000+.
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Rarest Beatles US.Single in existence to be auctioned
