Lot 34DOORS-MORRISON HOTEL-1970-FIRST PRESS USA-ELEKTRA-NMINT/NMINT

SINATRA, FRANK-STRANGERS IN the NIGHT-1966-FIRST PRESS (MONO) USA-REPRISE-F1017. Rare American original of the cult album. At the 1967 Grammy awards, Sinatra won two Grammy awards for his efforts on this album, including Record of the year for the title track, and best male vocal performance for the same song. (In the same year, he won another Grammy award - "Album of the year for a man and his music"). Ernie Freeman's arrangement of the title track earned him a Grammy award for best arrangement accompanied by a vocalist or instrumentalist.this is the last album Sinatra performed with longtime arranger / conductor Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. "Strangers in the Night" went platinum for one million copies sold in the United States. ...more

TWISTED SISTER-COME OUT AND PLAY-1985-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY-ATLANTIC-781275-1. A rare European original of the cult album. Come Out and Play is the fourth album by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released by Atlantic Records on November 9, 1985. The album was significantly less successful than its predecessor Stay Hungry (1984), both critically and commercially, although it received Gold status, selling more than 500,000 copies.  ...more

CAMEL-MIRAGE-1974-THE FIRST PRESS OF the UK-DERAM-SML1107 Matrix A-P2W/B-P2W. A rare British original of the cult prog group. Mirage is the second studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel, released on March 1, 1974. It includes songs such as "The White Rider", "Lady Fantasy" and "Supertwister", which include a demonstration of Andrew Latimer's flute. The album was ranked No. 51 in the Top 100 prog Albums of All Time by readers of Prog magazine in 2014. Prog Sphere considered Mirage to be the band's best album, writing that it is a prog classic that everyone who is a fan of progressive rock should own. ...more

STEWART, ROD - AN OLD RAINCOAT WON'T EVER LET YOU DOWN-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 UK-VERTIGO(SWIRL) - VO4/847200VTY. A very rare second press of the debut album of the legend of the British scene. An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down is the debut solo album by British singer Rod Stewart, released in the UK in February 1970. In the United States, the CD was released in November 1969 under the name The Rod Stewart Album and reached number 139 on the Billboard 200 chart. As guest musicians on this record, the following were noted: some members of the band The Faces, the drummer of The Jeff Beck Group — Mickey Waller, Keith Emerson and the guitarists of the band Steamhammerruen-Martin Pug and Martin Quittenton. ...more

URIAH HEEP -WAKE THE SLEEPER-2008-FIRST PRESS UK/EU -SANCTUARY-1767594. Mega rare original of the cult group.  Wake The Sleeper is the 21st Studio album by rock band Uriah Heep, released on June 2, 2008 in Europe and August 26, 2008 in the United States. The announced release in September 2007 was postponed (initially to March 2008) as a result of the purchase of Sanctuary Records by Universal Music. This was to ensure that the album was properly promoted, not that it was "lost" during the shift, and although this was unpleasant for them, the band members supported it. This is their first Studio album since 1998's Sonic Origami. It is also their first album since 1980's Conquest without long-time drummer Lee Kerslake, who was forced to leave the band due to ill health in 2007, ending the band's longest-running line-up of 21 years. Wake The Sleeper was nominated by the British Classic Rock magazine as Album of the year. ...more