Lot 104MANOWAR-SIGN OF THE HAMMER-1984-FIRST PRESS -GERMANY-10 RECORDS-NMINT/NMINT

DIRE STRAITS-DIRE STRAITS-1978-FIRST UK PRESS-VERTIGO - 9102021.Dire Straits is the debut Studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, was released in October 1978. 7 Oct 1978 album "Dire Straits" released on the Phonogram label. Since 1979 this album was released under the label of Vertigo. The sales results of the album is quite impressive — in Europe has sold four million copies in the U.S. — two million copies. The fate of singles diametrically different — "Sultans of Swing" was received by the public, reached the 8th position in the UK charts. Water of Love was released in some countries and the best achievement was 54 position in the chart of Australia. ...more

TEN YEARS AFTER-SSSSHH-1969-FIRST UK PRESS-DERAM-SML 1052 Matrix XZAL9083,P-4L/XZAL9084,P-2L, the Stamper 1G/1G (Dream!) Very rare original cult British rock Blues band. Ssssh is the third album entered the Top 20 of "Billboard" and was featured in the music press as a notable work in the genre of progressive Blues psychedelia. Among the best things of the album noted "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" Sonny boy Williamson (the amended text which "left little doubt that it would make the hero and heroine", Chipiona ballad "If You Should Love Me" and the first track "Bad Scene" in which subsequently a hear elements of proto-punk rock. ...more

LED ZEPPELIN-HOUSES OF THE HOLY-1973-FIRST UK PRESS-ATLANTIC - K50014 matrix A2/B2 STERLING. Very rare British original with the first matrix .Houses of the Holy is the fifth Studio album by the British rock group Led Zeppelin released 28 March 1973 on Atlantic Records. Paige described the concept of the cover as "a symbol of innocence, the expression of the idea that we are all beings who aspire to the heavens promised". Posed six-year-old Samantha gates and her four year old brother Stefan. The photo on the cover is a collage of over thirty shots. The cover of the album did not contain any information about artists or the title. In the US the title was written on ribbons that were taped children's buttocks. Despite this precaution, the album was banned in many States in the Bible belt. "Anything like that today we would do not allowed, immediately would be accused of propaganda of pedophilia, says Powell. But we were hippies, walking around naked was quite ordinary". In 2011, the cover of the album took 28 th place in the list of best album covers of all time according to the online edition Music Radar. The musical rating of the album immediately took the 1 to 10 place in the charts of countries in all continents, becoming immediately multiplatinovymi. ...more

GILLA-I LIKE SOME COOL ROCK'n'ROLL 1980-FIRST GERMANY PRESS-HANSA - 201406-320. Very rare original one of the best albums in the disco style. Gill and Roelofs 1980 record a new album, preceded by its release of the single We Gotta Get Out Of This Place. The album was called I Like Some Cool Rock'n'roll, and it was produced by himself, Roelofs, and Farian remained in the project as a viewer and a producer, for which, however, had the final word. The album was attended by interesting disco song Go Down Main Street, Tom Cat, as well as a few songs Roelofs, co-written by Fred Jay, including a beautiful lyrical Take Your Time. What prevented this album to be a bestseller, unknown, but, apparently, the role played by the fact that in 1980 disco began to experience hard times. Nevertheless, the album became fairly common in Europe (especially Eastern) and South-East Asia, where Euro-disco was very popular. ...more

QUEEN-THE WORKS-1984-FIRST PRESS USA-CAPITOL ST-12322. Rare American 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