Lot 42RARE EARTH-BACK TO EARTH-1975-FIRST PRESS USA-RARE EARTH-NMINT/NMINT

STYX-PIECES OF EIGHT-1978-FIRST UK PRESS-A&M-AMLH64724. Rare British original. Pieces Of Eight is the eighth Studio album by Styx , released September 1, 1978. The album reached the top # 6 in the Billboard album chart, and like its predecessor, would be triple platinum. ...more

WATERS, ROGER-RADIO K. A. O. S.-1987-FIRST PRESS USA-COLUMBIA FC40795. Rare American original. K. A. O. S. Is the second solo Studio album by English rock musician and former Pink Floyd member Roger waters . Released on 15 June 1987 in the UK and 16 June in the United States, it was the first solo album waters after his official split with Pink Floyd in 1985. Like his previous and future Studio albums and many of his works during his work with Pink Floyd, the album is a concept album, based on a number of key topical issues in the late 1980-ies, including monetarism and its impact on citizens, the popular culture of the time, as well as events and consequences of the cold war ...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

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

CLAPTON, ERIC-E. C. WAS HERE-1975-FIRST UK PRESS-RSO-2394160. Of The Matrix A-1/B-3. Very rare original live album from a Blues master. E. C. Was Here — live album by Blues-rock musician Eric Clapton, released in August 1975 the label of RSO. The album was recorded during a concert tour of Clapton in the US and UK, 19-20 July 1974 (The Long Beach Arena, California, USA) 4 December 1974 (The Hammersmith Odeon, London) – 25 June 1975 (The Providence Civic Center, Providence, USA).In this tour along with Clapton took part vocalist Yvonne Elliman. The list of songs selected for the album includes four cover versions of songs by well-known American Blues artists, and two, written in the period Clapton in the band Blind Faith. ...more