Lot 23BLUE CHEER - BLUE CHEER- 1970-FIRST PRESS UK-PHILIPS-NMINT/NMINT

SANDRA-LONG PLAY-1985-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-VIRGIN-207356. A rare original of the cult disco album. The Long Play is the debut studio album by German singer Sandra, released on November 11, 1985 by Virgin Records. The album was a great commercial success and spawned Sandra's signature number one single "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena", as well as the international top five single"In the Heat of the Night". ...more

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

ROLLING STONES-BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS) - 1966-FIRST PRESS (MONO) UK-DECCA-TXL101. Matrices XARL-7503-1A, XARL-7504-3A. A very rare British original of the cult ROLLING STONES album. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)is the first compilation album by The Rolling Stones. With various covers and track listings, it was released on March 28, 1966 on London Records in the United States and on November 4, 1966 on Decca Records in the United Kingdom. The American edition focused on the songs of 1964 and 1965 with two new melodies: the recent "19th Nervous Breakdown" and the re-recorded "Time Is on My Side" with a guitar intro. The British version covered a longer period, starting with the band's first A-side single in 1963, "Come On", and ending with several songs from 1966, including the recent hit "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" The album reached number three on the US Billboard 200 chart[1] and number four on the UK albums chart.[2] It remained on the chart for 99 weeks in the United States, where the RIAA certified the album as double platinum, which meant more than two million copies sold. ...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

WAITS, TOM-CLOSING TIME-1973-FIRST PRESS 1979 GERMANY-ASYLUM-ASK53030 A rare German original of the first album from the master of tavern blues. Closing Time is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on March 6, 1973 on the Asylum Records label. Produced and arranged by former Lovin 'Spoonful member Jerry Yester, Closing Time was the first of Waits' seven major releases from Asylum. The album was moderately successful in the United States, and although it did not chart and received little attention from the music press in the UK and other countries too. This explains that the album began to be re-released in Europe in the second half of the 70s when Tom became a super star. The album was certified gold in the UK only in 1979 and has acquired a modern cult significance among rock fans. ...more