10 Most Expensive Rock Albums Ever Made

10. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (£25,000 In 1967)

Whilst it would still make a lot of people contemplate selling their own grandmother to the local zoo, £25,000 is not a huge amount of money by modern standards.

Rewind the clock to the mid-60s however, and it's a very different story.

Between 1966 and 1967, The Beatles recorded one of the greatest albums ever made. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the end result of years of experimenting (with music and with drugs) and was what confirmed the Fab Four's legacy as one of the most important musical groups of all time.

Sadly for their accountants, innovation didn't come cheap.

The iconic cover itself cost £3,000, which was about 60 times what was spent on the average piece of art. The album's final cost was somewhere in the region of £25,000, making it one of the most expensive albums ever made at the time.

In contrast, The Beatles' first album four years earlier had cost just £400 to make.

In today's money, Sgt. Pepper cost around £378,000, or $495,000. Honestly, it could have cost ten times more and it still would have been worth every single penny.