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QUEEN-THE WORKS + PROMO TOUR BOOK-1984-FIRST UK PRESS-EMI-EMC2400141. Of The Matrix A-3-1-1-1/B-1-1-1-1. Rare British original. The Works is the eleventh Studio album by British rock band Queen, released on 27 February 1984. The album became a kind of return to roots. After a failed attempt to release a dance album, the group understands that people want the old Queen with a powerful hard fast numbers (Now I'm Here, Dead On Time, Tie Your Mother Down), lyrical ballads (Love Of My Life, Jealousy), hard-rock ballads in the spirit of "waving flag" (We Are The Champions, In The Lap Of The Gods), Opera mnogogolovy (The Prothet''s Song, Somebody To Love) and metal quick strikes (Stone Cold Crazy Let Me Entertain You). As mentioned Brian may, The Works is "A Night At The Opera" with several strokes from The Game. The Works gave the world two great hit songs: "Radio Ga Ga" and "I Want to Break Free". The album went double platinum and was sold over five million copies. ...more

QUATRO, SUZI-SAME-1973-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-RAK-1C06294809. matrices A1/B1.Suzi Quatro is the debut solo Studio album by American singer and bass guitarist of the same name . The album was originally released in October 1973, record label Rak in most areas. The album was released under the label of Bell Records in the USA and Canada, EMI Records in Japan and Columbia Records in some European countries. The album was called Can The Can in Australia. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching international popularity after its release, reaching the top 50 in the charts in several territories, reaching the top of #32 in the British album charts, #4 in Germany, #5 in the Netherlands and #2 in Australia. The album also achieved minor success in the U.S., entering the top 150 of the charts there. ...more

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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

ARGENT-IN DEEP-1973-FIRST UK PRESS-EPIC-EPC65475. Of The Matrix A-1/B-1 Porky/Pesco. Rare British original prog band from England.In Deep is the fourth Studio album by Argent, originally released on Epic Records in 1973. It is the original full-length recording of "God Given Rock and Roll to You", which reached number 18 in the UK charts (U.S. No. 114), when it was released in edited form as a single later that year. Later it was remade by Kiss as "God gave rock and roll to you II" for the film Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in 1991. ...more