Music fans could see record returns as “vinyl inflation” sends the price of some releases rocketing.

A list of 51 records has been selected by a panel of experts as potential good investments and top of the list is the ultra-rare withdrawn Sex Pistols single God Save the Queen on A&M Records.

The label dumped the band before it was released and destroyed most of the copies, making it worth £8,000 today on the rare occasions a copy turns up. Some of the other records on the list are more affordable, with mint condition first pressings of popular albums like David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars worth around £40 and likely to increase in value.

Ian McCann, editor of Record Collector magazine, which drew up the list, said: “There is something of an investment market in mint-condition copies of iconic albums.

“The problem is people love them and play them to death, making it increasingly rare to find them in mint condition.”