Lot 115COCKER, JOE NIGHT CALLS-1991-FIRST PERSS EEC-CAPITOL-NMINT/NMINT

KING CRIMSON - IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1975-HOLLAND-ISLAND-88166XAT. In the Court of the Crimson King is the debut Studio album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1969. The album ranked fifth in the list of Top 25 best albums of progressive rock version Progarchives.com. This drive has had a big and unusually strong influence on the development of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and heavy metal. The album was recorded with exceptional musicality, the poetics of texts. While some rock groups (e.g., Pink Floyd) were prone to writing long songs, while others tried to hold in a rock song freedom jazz forms (Frank Zappa), in the Court of the Crimson King group used a bizarre poetry blakowski nightmares, visions, and premonitions. The group is always attributed to so-called genre of "intelligent heavy metal", and their very first album, created this genre, and also advanced music idea forward on several fronts. The album opens with the song "21st Century Schizoid Man", which is characterized by the use of heavily distorted vocals, deliberately monotonous, mechanical rhythm and piercingly loud saxophone and guitar. The rhythm is specified as the first song, suddenly gives way to a soft melodic calm "I Talk to the Wind". Air psychedelic piece "Moonchild" is completed with free form improvisation. In "Epitaph" and the title "The Court of The Crimson King" " the group used in the orchestration of the Mellotron. ...more

JETHRO TULL-SINGS FROM THE WOOD-1977-UK FIRST PRESS-CHRYSALIS-CHR1132 Matrix A/B 10TH SET. Rare original cult British prog group.Songs from the Wood is characterized with bright folk-rock sound (according to many music critics — the standard of the genre). The first disc, which was attended by David Palmer as a full member of the group. The first full-length Studio album by Jethro Tull to be awarded a positive assessment of the critics from the time of Thick as a Brick. ...more

ROUSSOS,DEMIS-HAPPY TO BE-1976-FIRST UK PRESS-PHILIPS-9101027. Matrix A-4/B-2. Rare British original. Roussos has achieved great success in the UK in November 1975 with the song Happy To Be On An Island In The Sun. In June 1976 came the album which reached the first place in British hit-parade. ...more

DURAN DURAN-NOTORIOUS-1986-FIRST PRESS USA-EMI-PI12540. Rare American original. Notorious is the fourth Studio album by British new wave band Duran Duran, released on 18 November 1986. The producer of this release this time were worked previously with the group when producing the singles "the Reflex" and "Wild Boys", the guitarist of the band Chic — Nile Rodgers. He also played the guitar on the main single of the album "Notorious". This is the only single of the album, which was able to reach its former commercial success (2nd place in USA and 7th in the UK). ...more

LAID BACK-HOLE IN THE SKY-1990-FIRST GERMANY PRESS-ARIOLA room 210263, a Rare original of one of the best disco albums. ...more