Lot 30BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS-NUCLEAR BLUES-1980-FIRST PRESS USA-MCA-NMINT/NMINT

ROLLING STONES-OUT OF OUR HEADS-1965-ORIGINAL PRESS 1969 (STEREO) UK-DECCA-SKL4733 matrix ZAL6973-1W/ZAL6974-1W stamper 1UK/1BA. A rare early British edition of the cult album.Out of Our Heads is a studio album by the British rock band The Rolling Stones. It is the band's fourth album released in the US and the third in the UK. The versions of the album released in the US and in the UK differ in the covers and the list of songs. The American version of the album was released on July 30, 1965 by London Records, and the British version was released on September 24, 1965, by Decca Records. The album was originally released in the United States. The album cover shows a photo taken during the same photo shoot as the photos that appeared on the covers of the albums 12 X 5 and The Rolling Stones No. 2. The album was the result of six months of work by the band. It includes songs that later became hits, such as "The Last Time" and, which became world famous, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", previously released only on the band's live EP Got Live If You Want It!. The album became the first edition of the band to reach the top of the Billboard 200 chart, and subsequently received platinum status in the United States. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine included the album in the list of the 500 greatest albums of all time at number 114.  ...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

PRESLEY, ELVIS-LOVE LETTERS FROM ELVIS-1971-FIRST PRESS UK-RCA-SF8202. A rare British original of the King of rock and roll. Love Letters from Elvis is the fourteenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1971. The album was critically panned upon release and failed to break into the top 20 of the Billboard charts, but reached #12 on the US Top Albums Chart and #7 on the UK Bestseller Chart. ...more

OSCAR PETERSON TRIO-THE TRIO-1974-FIRST GERMANY PRESS-PABLO-2310701. Rare original cult album. Trio is a live album by Oscar Peterson, Joe pass and Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen, who was released in 1974. The album received a Grammy award for best jazz group in 1975. In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanov praised the game a pass and Pedersen, but wrote: "the reason to acquire this set is for the remarkable Oscar Peterson. The pianist brilliantly investigates several jazz styles...Peterson really flourished during his years with the label Pablo Norman Granz, and it was one of his best records of that period. ...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