Lot 29BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS-BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS 3-1970-FIRST PRESS UK-CBS-NMINT/NMINT

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH MAND-NIGHTINGALES AND BOMBERS-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-BRONZE-ILPS 9337. Matrix A-4/B-4 is a very rare British original -the pinnacle of the group's creativity. Nightingales and Bombers is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on August 22, 1975 on the Bronze Records label. The CD rose to #120 on the Billboard 200 of all rock albums hierarchy.      ...more

LITA FORD-OUT FOR BLOOD-1983-TEST PRESS USA-MERCURY-810331-1. A very rare test original of an American heavy star. Out for Blood is the debut solo album by guitarist and vocalist Lita Ford, formerly of the band the Runaways. The original cover of this album showed Lita standing in front of a spider web and holding a broken guitar in her hands, from which blood flows. It was later replaced with a cover of Lita standing in front of a purple background with her guitar. The album cover showed that Ford had adopted a very heavy metal-inspired image, an image that she would maintain for most of the next decade. ...more

ROLLING STONES-STONE AGE-1971-FIRST PRESS (PROMO) GERMANY-DECCA-SLK16702. A rare German promo original. Stone Age is a compilation album by The Rolling Stones, released on the Decca label in 1971. It reached number four in the UK charts. RS were surprised by the release of the album and stated: "We didn't know that this record would be released. In our opinion, it is below the standard that we are trying to keep up with, both in the choice of content and in the design of the cover." These 12 songs, dating from the mid-1960s, were chosen because they never appeared on British studio albums, some of them were originally released only on singles, and some up to that point were released only on American studio albums. ...more

CARAVAN-CARAVAN-1969-THE FIRST PRESS (PROMO) USA-VERVE FORECAST-FTS3066. Mega rare American original of the cult album. Caravan is a British band from the Canterbury scene, formed in 1968 by former members of The Wilde Flowers, Pye Hastings (vocals, guitar), Richard Sinclair (vocals, bass guitar), David Sinclair (keyboards) and Richard Coughlan (drums).The first album of the band Caravan (1968) was a hybrid of pop music, jazz and psychedelia, playing an important role both in the formation of the sound of the band and the formation of the features of the Canterbury music school as a whole. The album included the band's first signature psychedelic jam, "Where But For Caravan Would I" ...more

SWEET-FANNY ADAMS-1974-THE FIRST PRESS OF THE UK-RCA-LPL1 5068 Matrix A-1/B-1. A very rare original of one of the best albums in hard glam rock. Sweet Fanny Adams is Sweet's second album, their first of two released in 1974, as well as their first album simply as Sweet. This album was a turning point and a change in the sound of the band. It had more of a hard rock sound than their previous pop albums. Sweet Fanny Adams reached number 27 on the UK Albums chart in the year of its release by RCA Records in 1974 and number 2 on the West German Albums chart. It was not released in the United States, but five of her tracks appeared on the American version of the album Desolation Boulevard, released in July 1975. ...more