Record Collector magazine has declared the single Suicide Alley/ Tennessee (I Get Low) by the Manic Street Preachers to be one of the most collectable records ever made since 1988.

The record was recorded in June 1988 in Sound Bank Studio in their home town of Blackwood.

It was pressed onto seven-inch vinyl, and only 300 copies were put on sale in 1989.

Of those 300, which were either sold at gigs or sent to newspapers and magazines, 200 had proper sleeves housed in a replica of The Clash's debut cover.

Richey Edwards was not in the photograph as he took the photograph.

The remaining 100 copies were either in black sleeves or in hand-made sleeves created out of press cuttings.

Record Collector values the latter at £600, and it is these that it rates as one of the most collectable records released since 1988.

The single played an important part in the band's early career, as NME writer Steven Wells gave it a glowing review and made folk outside South Wales aware of the band for the first time.

In his review he quoted a letter from Richey which accompanied the release: "We are the suicide of the non-generation.

"We are as far away from anything in the 80s as possible."