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SUNDAY-SUNDAY-1991-FIRST PRESS RUSSIA-FEE LEE-FL3-001. A very rare original of the cult album. Resurrection is the second studio album by the band Resurrection, recorded in 1981. Until 1991, it existed only as a tape album, distributed by copying. Included in the book by Alexander Kushnir "100 magnetoalbums of Soviet rock" The recording was made on June 7-10, 1981. The sound engineer was Alexander "Artem" Arutyunov. The album was mixed on the spot.  The songs "In life, like in a dark thicket", "Who's to blame?" and "I used to wander alone" were first recorded in 1979 on the first album. A total of 9 songs were recorded. The picture on the cover is drawn by Mikhail Shevyakov. ...more

COLLINS, PHIL-NO JACKET REQUIRED-1985-UK FIRST PRESS-VIRGIN-V2345. Rare British original. No Jacket Required is the third Studio album by British singer-songwriter Phil Collins. Released 25 Jan 1985. The album was attended by such musicians as Helen Terry, Peter Gabriel and sting. The drive was very successful, was positively accepted by critics and listeners, which was reflected in the awarding of No Jacket Required by the award "Grammy" in the category "album of the year" and "Best male pop vocal performance". Stephen Holden (eng. Stephen Holden) from The New York Times said that Collins "has made a quiet revolution, and expanded the role of a shock when you create pop music." A columnist for Rolling Stone magazine, David Fricke noted that "Like his early albums Face Value and I Must Be Going!, the album No Jacket Required is not an album that waits to be liked".The album became the most commercially successful Phil Collins topped the charts in many countries including the USA (where it topped the charts for seven weeks), UK and Canada. The album No Jacket Required received the Diamond certificate of the American recording industry Association of America", has sold over two million copies in the UK, he became the six-time platinum. ...more

GRADSKY, ALEXANDER-NOSTALGIA-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027089007. A rare original of the cult album. Nostalgia (vocal suite to poems by Vladimir Nabokov, music by A. Gradsky, recorded in 1984Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (born Fradkin; b. November 3, 1949, Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet and Russian singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, poet, composer. One of the founders of Russian rock. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997). Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1999). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2014). Artistic Director of the Gradsky Hall Theater. ...more

SUPERTRAMP-SUPERTRAMP-1970-REISSUE 1974 UK-A/M AMLS981. Matrix A-1/B-1. A rare British early edition of the cult band's first album. The album was met with good reviews and peaked at number 158 on the Billboard 200. ...more

ARIA-HERO OF ASPHALT-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027413000. A rare original of the cult album. Hero of Asphalt is the third studio album by Aria. This is the first album after the split of the band in early 1987, "Hero of Asphalt" is also the first album officially released by "Melody", the two previous albums at that time existed and were distributed as tape albums only on tape cassettes. The album was a great success, its sales exceeded 1 million copies (which in the United States corresponds to the platinum status), but the exact circulation is unknown even to the company "Melody", although, according to her, at least 1.5 million records were printed.On this album, for the first time, all the lyrics were written by Margarita Pushkina, and Alexander Elin, who wrote the lyrics to previous albums, left for the Master group and did not work with Aria until 2001.In 2008, a concert tour was held in honor of the 20th anniversary of the album, which resulted in the release of a double live album and a concert video "Hero of Asphalt XX years". The original album line-up performed at the concert and all the pieces were performed in the same order. In May 2012, as a result of a vote held on the website openspace.ru, the album "Hero of Asphalt" took the first position in the list of 50 major records of "Melody" and on April 23, 2013 was re-released on vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies as part of the project "Melody-50", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the company.  ...more