Almost two years ago, a pair of ABBA 12" singles — “Hovas Vittne” b/w “Triveds Hambo” and “Sång Till Görel” — sold for $2,550 and $2,025, respectively. Who would have guessed that any ABBA record could command such a princely sum?

In 1970, and for a good few years after that as well, the idea of Iggy Pop and The Stooges being invited to any halfway respectable function would have struck many as being like asking Genghis Khan to bring a few friends around for tea.

The honor is so richly deserved that it’s probably churlish to ask precisely which incarnation of Genesis it was that brought them into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.

Sean Peace, president and founder of SongVest, is proud of all the recent accomplishments in the field of music collectibles and credits it to the company's innovative spirit. Here's what he had to tell Goldmine about the ideas behind the company, how the system works and why SongVest auctions are a great choice for collectors.

“I remember flying into New York on Pan Am, and just seeing the skyline. I’d never seen anything like it. I think I might have burst into tears, because I thought,‘That’s it; you’ve made it now, mate.’” — The Hollies’ Terry Sylvester

Born in 1948, the talented tot James Chambers wowed audiences at country fairs before celebrating his homeland’s independence and his own by joining the deluge of youngsters flooding into the capital, Kingston, in 1962.

From 1972 to 1982, the Swedish group ABBA was one of the most successful groups in the world.

Aerosmith has been making headlines in the world of classic rock recently, ever since Steven Tyler took a tumble off the stage in South Dakota back in August 2009.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel came together in the late 1950s in their little town of two and a half million, Queens, New York, where rock-and-roll music would find them and change their lives forever.

It has been 40 years since the release of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. It was clear, however, that when Garfunkel was interviewed for this story that he felt as passionately now as any other time about the song and album by that name, and he was more than happy to discuss both with Goldmine.