Lot 123MICHAEL, GEORGE-FAITH-1987-FIRST PRESS HOLLAND-EPIC-NMINT/NMINT

SCORPIONS-BLACKOUT-1982-FIRST GERMANY PRESS- HARVEST 1C064-64686. Rare оригиналBlackout is the eighth Studio album by the German rock band Scorpions, released in 1982. The album took 62 th place in the rating "100 best rock albums of all time" by the magazine Classic Rock. The album "Blackout" has reached maximum level of sales in the USA and it was rated platinum by the RIAA for selling over 1,000,000 copies in March 1984. On the cover of the album depicts a self-portrait of artist Gottfried Helnwein. ...more

MAYALL, JOHN-THE TURNING POINT-1969-FIRST UK PRESS-POLYDOR-583571, Mega rare British original fully loaded (poster booklet). Album - John mijolla in all respects a turning point, a point of reference. When John Mayall formed another band after the breakup been so diligent in may 1969, he decided that this group will play the music with low volume level - or music without "heavy guitars and drums". Album "the Turning Point" was recorded at the concert, which took place on 12 July 1969 at Fillmore East, new York. Performers the album was John Mayall on vocals, harmonica, slide guitar and a Fender Telecaster, tambourine and percussion; Jon mark on acoustic guitar; Steve Thompson on bass, and johnny almond on tenor and Alto sax, flute and percussion. All songs on the album were written by John Mayol (as well as in collaboration with Steve Thompson). The track "I'm Gonna Fight For You JB" is a tribute to American Blues guitarist George. B. Lenoir who died in 1967 and had a profound influence on John Maiella. The album has only seven songs in 48 minutes. Sometimes they seem too long, but this is only the idea of John to immerse the audience into the atmosphere of soft sounds and rhythms. All things are good and, in principle, Blues, just supply a very unusual and new for that time. Critics highly praised the work. ALLMUSIC gives the album its highest rating -5 stars. ...more

BRAND X-UNORTHODOX BEHAVIOUR-1976-FIRST UK PRESS-CHARISMA - CAS1117 Matrix A-4/B-3. Is the first album by British jazz fusion group Brand X . It peaked on the Billboard 200 in 1976, the same year, when it was released. This album combines jazz fusion and progressive rock. ...more

NAZARETH-CINEMA-1986 - FIRST PRESS UK/EU HOLLAND-VERTIGO-830300-1. Rare original the only edition on vinyl in Europe. The sixteenth album by the Scottish rock band Nazareth, released in February 1986 on Vertigo in Europe and on A&M Records in America. In the Cinema the group can say, turned to his roots, to the good old hard rock that and fell in love with in the seventies. The album almost entirely consists of the numbers that show Nazareth this side. The material for the Cinema is half of the songs is a collective work, half from the works of Manny Charlton. This all - sturdy hard rock that does honor to Nazareth to get back to the music at the end of the 1980s almost no one did. ...more

SWEET-LEVEL HEADED-1978-FIRST UK PRESS-POLYDOR-POLD5001. Very rare original British cult album. Level Headed-Sweet's sixth album . A different version was released on Polydor in Europe and Capitol in the US, Canada and Japan. The album "Love Is Like Oxygen", the latest single from the group that ranked in the top 40, it reached number 8 in the US and 9th in the UK. The only version of "Love Is Like Oxygen" is substantially shorter than the album version. The second single, "California Nights", was released as the album but only reached #76 in the United States. This was the last album with the classic lineup of Sweet, as Brian Connolly left about a year after the album's release to start a solo career. The remaining trio of Steve priest, Andy Scott and Mick Tucker continued the work and released three albums before breaking up in 1981. ...more