Lot 26ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND-WIN,LOSE OR DRAW-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-CAPRICORN-NMINT/NMINT

ARKTIS-ARKTIS TAPES-1975-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-BON BON-BBR7502. Mega rare short-run original of one of the key prog albums of the 70s. Arktis - Arktis Tapes 1975. The second album of the band from Bonn. Unfortunately, the first album did not find a "buyer", and in 1974, with the assistance of Konrad Planck, Arktis recorded a second demo album, released in may 1975 with a circulation of 500 copies-again for promotion purposes. The music here is somewhat restrained, but no less attractive and covering. In this music, you can feel not only a craving for art-rock (prolonged instrumental pieces), but also the sprouts of guitar technique, characteristic of what in the next decade was called "heavy metal". One critic wrote a scathing note: If such an album had been released in 1969 or 1970, they would have been at the top with Black Sabbath and LED ZEPPELIN , and now the time is gone. "Tapes" suffered the fate of the first Arktis album, and Blahut disbanded the band.  ...more

LED ZEPPELIN-SAME-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1969 UK-ATLANTIC-588171. One of the icons in rock music, mega rare second pressing with the matrix of the original A-1/B-1. Led Zeppelin is the debut Studio album by the British rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded in October 1968 at London's Olympic Studios and released by Atlantic Records on January 12, 1969. The album initially garnered mostly negative press reviews, but was a great commercial success and was subsequently highly acclaimed by rock critics. Album release date, January 12, 1969, Kerrang magazine! in a special issue marked as the birthday of heavy metal In total, the band spent 1,782 pounds on recording the album, and collected about 3.5 million pounds in total for 1969-70, thereby exceeding the amount paid by 2,000 times. In the charts, the album also did not lag behind, placing from 1 to 20 places in different countries. In Britain, it reached a maximum of 6th place in two years. ...more

SADE-PROMISE-1985-FIRST HOLLAND PRESS-EPIC- EPC86318. Rare European original. Promise is the second Studio album by Sade. Almost every second song on the album took the top of the billboards ("Is It a Crime" and "Fear"), several songs became hit singles ("Never as Good as the First Time" and "The Sweetest Taboo"). Promise became four times platinum in U.S., double platinum in the UK and Canada and platinum in Germany. ...more

BACK STREET CRAWLER-2ND STREET-1976-FIRST PRESS UK-ATLANTIC K50267. A rare British original by the guitarist of the band FREE. 2nd Street is a 1976 album by Back Street Crawler, released on Atco Records. It was released after the death of Paul Kossoff in March 1976 and is dedicated to him. ...more

SINATRA, FRANK-STRANGERS IN the NIGHT-1966-FIRST PRESS (MONO) USA-REPRISE-F1017. Rare American original of the cult album. At the 1967 Grammy awards, Sinatra won two Grammy awards for his efforts on this album, including Record of the year for the title track, and best male vocal performance for the same song. (In the same year, he won another Grammy award - "Album of the year for a man and his music"). Ernie Freeman's arrangement of the title track earned him a Grammy award for best arrangement accompanied by a vocalist or instrumentalist.this is the last album Sinatra performed with longtime arranger / conductor Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. "Strangers in the Night" went platinum for one million copies sold in the United States. ...more