Lot 62URIAH HEEP FALLEN ANGEL-1978-FIRST PRESS UK-BRONZE-NMINT/NMINT

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

DOORS-MORRISON HOTEL-1970-THE FIRST PRESS USA-ELEKTRA-EKS75007. Matrices A-1CP/B-1CP PITMAN PRESS.  A rare American original of the cult album.. Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Doors. On the front side of the album cover is a photo of the band through the glass in the lobby of the Morrison Hotel, which really existed in Los Angeles at 1246 South Hope Street, on the back-a photo of a diner called "Hard Rock Cafe" The album reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and performed better abroad than the previous album (it was the highest charting studio album of the band in the UK, where it peaked at No. 12). ...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

FITZGERALD, ELLA-THE COLE PORTER SONG BOOK-1956-FIRST PRESS UK-HIS MASTER'S VOICE-CLP1083.A rare British original of the cult album. .Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book is a 1956 studio album by American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, dedicated to the songs of Cole Porter. It was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly formed Verve Records (and the first album released by the label). Fitzgerald's time on the Verve label allowed her to release her most famous recordings at the peak of her vocal abilities. This album marked the beginning of a series of Fitzgerald songs, each of the eight albums in the series focuses on a different composer's canon, known as the Great American Songbook. The album was recorded on February 7-9 and March 27, 1956 in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Fitzgerald's manager and producer of many of her albums, Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldorf-Astoria and played him the entire album. Afterwards, Porter simply remarked: "God, what a wonderful diction this girl has." ...more

ASTRUD GILBERTO-BRAZILIAN MOOD-1972-THE FIRST PRESS OF GERMANY-METRO-2356113 A rare original of the mixed sessions of the 60s jazz singer. ASTRUD is from Brazil, born on March 30, 1940 in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. She became famous in the early 1960s thanks to the recording of the Bossa Nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema", who performed together with Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto (whom she was married to).  ...more