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.
Vinyl in clean condition - NMINT/ARCHIVE Matt Cover is in excellent condition with minimal traces of storage - NMINT. Labels are in top condition - NMINT/ARCHIVE
Lot sold: 2000 ₽
RAINBOW-RISING-1976-UK FIRST PRESS-OYSTER-2490137. Matrix A-2/B-3 . Rare original press which followed the matrices A-1/B-1. Cover marked with gold stamp ( Limited edition, special price). The album Rising (also known as Rainbow Rising) is the second Studio album by Rainbow, released in 1976. Most critics say this is the best album among all the albums released by the group. The album went on sale in may of the same year, rising to 48th place in The Billboard 200 and up to 11th place in the UK. Over the next few years Rising has become a classic in hard rock. In 1981 Rising topped the reader's list of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time, compiled by the magazine Kerrang!. In 2002, the album was ranked 22nd position in the ranking "100 best rock albums of all time" by the magazine Classic Rock ...more
Lot sold: 5600 ₽
Estimate: 5500—7000 ₽
MERCURY, FREDDIE/CABALLE, MONTSERRAT BARCELONA 1988-FIRST UK PRESS-POLYDOR-POLH44. Barcelona is the second Studio album by Freddie Mercury, released 10 October 1988. Recorded with Opera singer Montserrat Caballe. The second and last lifetime solo album Freddie Mercury. The disc is recorded in 1987-1988, the Studio Mountain Studios. The idea of Freddie Mercury with the involvement of the Symphony orchestra was not implemented because of lack of time, and in the end the album was partially arranged synths and drum machine. The song "Barcelona", which gave the name to the album, became the anthem of the city hosting the Summer Olympics in 1992 in Spain. ...more
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Estimate: 9000—11000 ₽
MALMSTEEN, YNGWIE-FIRE & ICE-1992-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY-ELEKTRA 7559-61137-1. Rare original virtuoso guitar. Fire & Ice is the sixth Studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen , released on 7 February 1992 on Elektra Records . The album took first place in the Japanese albums chart , reached # 121 on the us Billboard 200 and charted in the top 90 in the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. ...more
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Estimate: 4500—6000 ₽
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
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Estimate: 5000—6000 ₽
