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

GENTLE GIANT-FREE HAND-1975-THE FIRST PRESS UK-CHRYSALIS-CHR1093. The A-1U/B-1U matrices are a rare British original . Free Hand is the seventh album by the British progressive rock band Gentle Giant. It was released in 1975. It was Gentle Giant's first album with their new label Chrysalis Records in the UK. The album turned out to be high-quality and less dissonant, more accessible feeling than their previous album The Power and the Glory. It was their highest charting album in the US and the only one to reach the Top 50 on the Billboard chart. ...more

ALEXEY RYBNIKOV-ROCK OPERA JUNO AND AVOS-1980-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-MELODIA-C60-18627. "Juno and Avos" is a rock opera by Alexey Rybnikov (music) and Andrey Voznesensky (libretto). The premiere, directed by Mark Zakharov, took place on July 9, 1981 on the stage of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater, where the performance, which has become a kind of business card of Lenkom, took place In parallel with the work on the performance, an audio version of the opera with other performers was recorded in Lenkom in 1980. The first public listening of the recorded work took place on December 9, 1980 in the Church of the Intercession in Fily (Moscow). However, due to censorship obstacles, the album of two stereo records was released by the company" Melody " only in 1982 (number C60 18627-30 (2LP)).  ...more

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

SAXON-SAXON-1979-THE FIRST PRESS GERMANY-CARRERA-2934110. A rare original of the cult British band. Saxon is the debut studio album by the English heavy metal band Saxon, released in 1979. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic gave the album three stars out of five and in his mixed review described it as "the silence before the storm" in terms of the band's subsequent success and the growing New Wave of British heavy metal. ...more

TIME MACHINE AND FRIENDS-TIME MACHINE XX !(2LP) - 1991-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-MELODY-C6031127006. A rare original of the 20th anniversary concert.   "The Time Machine-XX!" is a music album, a recording of the anniversary concert on May 27, 1989 at the Luzhniki Sports Palace. A double vinyl album with recordings of excerpts from a 6-hour concert. It has not been reissued, partly because it is the only record featuring "Time Machine" that Sintez Records does not have the right to reissue. On the records, in addition to the anniversaries, the group Shanghai, Buffoons, Gradsky, SV, Secret are recorded.  ...more