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George Harrison’s lot makes a cool £115K

Heresy! Beatles back catalogue gets megamix treatment courtesy of George and Giles Martin

Clapton career highlight, inspired by Duane Allman, now on SACD

Brian De Palma called the first Star Wars movie "gibberish". But George Lucas' vision, Harrison Ford's gruff charm, the Irwin Kershner-directed/Leigh Brackett-scripted The Empire Strikes Back and, of course, Darth Vader—one of cinema's great villains —ensure the trilogy's immortality. Just don't mention the prequels.

Sixties power-poppers inspired, aided and abetted by The Beatles

Second album from '60s NY oddball, aka piano man Stephen Friedland

Two best-ofs, including first new studio recordings in 22 years

And the "friends" include Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Recorded in front of a studio audience in London in 1985, Perkins never needed six guitarists back at Sun Studios in the '50s, and producer Dave Edmunds should have booted out half of them. But Perkins is in vigorous voice, a quiffed-up George turns out to be a total rockabilly king, and when the Teds start jiving in the aisles, it's irresistible.

Athens, GA septet deliver eloquently dreamscaped stopgap LP

Harrison's six albums, recorded 1976-1992 on his own Dark Horse label, available individually with extra tracks and as a deluxe box set with bonus DVD