Lot 39PINK FLOYD-OBSCURED BY CLOUDS-1972-FIRST PRESS UK-HARVEST-NMINT/NMINT

IGOR TALKOV-CONCERT 23.02.1991 IN LUZHNIKI (2LP) - 1992-FIRST PRESS RUSSIA-MOROZ-M-0018. A very rare original of the famous concert of 1991. From February to August 1991, Talkov and his musical group "Lifebuoy Krug" demonstrated the author's concert program " Sud " at many concert venues in the USSR, which included the most acute social songs of the musician and his most famous lyrical songs. According to the author, the program was a trial of the organizers of the October Revolution of 1917 and all the subsequent rulers of the Soviet state, who, according to the author, turned Russia into one of the most backward countries on the planet and the raw material base of developed capitalist countries .  ...more

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD-ON TIME-1969-FIRST PRESS USA-CAPITOL-ST-307. Matrix A-H3*1/B-H3*1. A very rare original of the cult first album. On Time is the debut studio album by the hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad, released in August 1969 on Capitol Records. The band's first single from this album, "Time Machine", barely managed to break into the top 50 singles chart, reaching number 48, but after the success of their second album, Grund Funkruen (also known as The Red Album), in 1970, the record On Time received gold status — this is one of four gold certificates awarded to the band that year by the Recording Industry Association of America. ...more

BEE GEES-SPIRITS HAVING FLOWN-1979-FIRST PRESS-UK-RSO-RSBG001. A rare British original of the iconic album. Spirits Having Flown is the fifteenth studio album by the British trio Bee Gees. Recorded in March-November 1978 (at the same time, the band members were filming the film "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Orchestra"). It was released in February 1979 and sold a total of 30 million copies. Topping the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as in Australia, it became one of the most successful albums in the Bee Gees ' discography, a kind of quintessence of their work. ...more

AARDVARK-AARDVARK-1970-FIRST PRESS UK (PROMO) - DERAM NOVA-SDN17. Mega rare British original hard-prog-blues cult band. Aardvark ‎– (1970) The one-album English band took as their name a term denoting a representative of the tropical fauna-the African anteater. In the late 60s and early 70s, during the musical rock boom, a huge number of bands released one or two albums. Many of these groups often imitated already known artists, a number of groups tried to experiment with sound, but due to the lack of professionalism and talent, their music was of little interest to anyone... But still, many were not deservedly forgotten, as the material released by these teams was sometimes very interesting, and often did not concede or even surpass in quality, the then monsters from rock... One of these teams was the Aardvark group. On July 11, 1969, Aardvark, Blodwyn Pig and The Good Earth, along with THE Soft Machine, participated in Midnight Rave No. 3 at the Classic Theatre.  Prior to recording the only album produced by David Hitchcock, the band featured keyboardist Paddy Coulter, who was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Steve Milliner. Around the same time, Milliner helped create the album Barbed Wire Sandwich (1970 Nova) by Simon Kirke and Paul Kossoff's Black Cat Bones.The main burden in the band, which worked without a guitarist, fell on the shoulders of keyboardist Steve Milliner. His inventive playing with bassist Stan Aldous is one of the obvious advantages of the disc, which was released in March 1970 on the branch of Deram Records Nova. The combination of organ, bass guitar and percussion evokes the Aardvark band Egg and anticipates the future compositions of Emerson, Lake , Palmer - The Greencap. On the disc, Copper Sunset stands out with a great, wrong bass part and the epic blues thing Many Things To Do, as if it came here from the Cream storerooms, but the best is the old-fashioned Once Upon A Hill with spectacular celesta parts.Subsequently, vocalist Dave Skillin discovered another talent. He took up writing the lyrics, and from his pen came the lyrics of the album Alchemist - 1973 CBS band Home. The further fate of the musician is covered with the darkness of time. ...more

STING-MERCURY FALLING-1996-FIRST PRESS UK-AM-540 486-1. Mega rare original of one of the best works of STING. Mercury Falling is the fifth studio album by British rock musician Sting, released on 8 March 1996. It marked Sting's transition to adult-oriented music. So, the second single was released ballad - "You Still Touch Me", characteristic of this genre. The album begins and ends with the words "Mercury Falling" The success of the album was not long in coming, two Grammy Awards in 1997 - best pop album and best male performance. In the same year, it became multi-platinum. ...more