[1] It is promoted as "the world’s leading authority on rare and collectable records" and claims to be currently "the UK’s longest-running music magazine".

[1] With issue 7, in March 1980, the Beatles Monthly section was separated from Record Collector and continued to be sold independently.

With the addition of another editorial staff member – Peter Doggett, who stayed with the magazine for almost 20 years – Record Collector began to take shape and assume its own identity.

In 2003, Record Collector became a full colour publication – marking the fact with a psychedelic special – and printing 13 issues a year.

The RRPG is not designed to be a complete discography of a given artist, but a reference for collectors and dealers of collectible records.

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