Lot 55SMOKIE-BRIGHT LIGHTS & BACK ALLEYS-1977-FIRST PRESS UK-RAK-NMINT/NMINT

SADE-PROMISE-1985-FIRST HOLLAND PRESS-EPIC- EPC86318. Rare European original. Promise is the second Studio album by Sade. Almost every second song on the album took the top of the billboards ("Is It a Crime" and "Fear"), several songs became hit singles ("Never as Good as the First Time" and "The Sweetest Taboo"). Promise became four times platinum in U.S., double platinum in the UK and Canada and platinum in Germany. ...more

MOVIE- NIGHT-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C9026795003. A rare original of the cult album. Night is the fifth studio album by the Soviet rock band Kino, recorded in 1985 and released in January 1986. The album was recorded at the studio "AnTrop". Initially, it was released on compact cassettes, and in 1988 it was released on records by the record company "Melody". It is the band's first officially released album. The album took the 12th place in the list of "50 best Russian albums of all time", compiled by the magazine "Afisha" according to the results of a survey of young Russian musicians. ...more

IRON BUTTERFLY-BALL-1969-THE FIRST PRESS UK-ATCO-228011. Matrix A-1/B-1 is a rare British original of the cult album. Ball is the third studio album by the rock band Iron Butterfly, released on January 17, 1969. After the huge success of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly slightly changed its acid-rock sound and experimented with more melodic compositions. However, the band's signature heavy guitars are still noticeable on tracks such as "In the Time of Our Lives" and "It Must Be Love". The album reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 charts, making Ball more successful than In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Ball was certified Gold in March 1969. ...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

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