Lot 42BEATLES-1962-1966-1973-FIRST PRESS UK-APLLE-NMINT/NMINT

ROLLING STONES-IT'S ONLY ROCK'N ROLL-1974-FIRST PRESS USA-ROLLING STONES-COC 79101. Rare American original. It’s Only Rock 'n Roll (Rus." It's just rock and roll") is the twelfth British and fourteenth American studio album by The Rolling Stones, was released in 1974 on the band's own label. It became the last album of the band with guitarist Mick Taylor, the title song of the record indirectly hinted at Taylor's replacement, Ronnie Wood[source not specified 464 days]. The album has a more pronounced rock sound than the band's previous work, funky and soul-inspired-Goats Head Soup. The album reached the first line in the US national chart and became the second in the UK charts. ...more

FITZGERALD, ELLA AND ARMSTRONG, LOUIS-ELLA AND LOUIS-1956-THE FIRST PRESS USA-VERVE-MGV-4003.A rare American original of the cult album. .Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet, released in October 1956. Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s on the Decca label, it was the first of three albums that Fitzgerald and Armstrong were to record together for Inspirational recordings, later followed in 1957 by It's Ella and Louis Again, and in 1959 by "Porgy and Bess". In 2000, it was ranked 636th on Colin Larkin's list of the 1000 best albums of all time. ...more

GABRIEL, PETER-PASSION (2LP)-1989-FIRST UK PRESS-REAL WORLD - RWLP1. Rare British original. It was originally written as the soundtrack to the film "The Last Temptation of Christ" , but Gabriel spent several months after the release of the film, developing the music, finally releasing it as a full album instead of a soundtrack. It is considered a milestone in the popularization of world music and received a Grammy award for best New Age album in 1990. ...more

HARRISON, GEORGE-DARK HORSE-1974-FIRST PRESS UK-APPLE-PAS10008. matrix YEX 941-2U/YEX 942-2U. Dark Horse is the fifth studio album by English rock musician George Harrison. It was released on the Apple Records label in December 1974.Dark Horse has many guest musicians, including Tom Scott, Billy Preston, Willie Weeks, Andy Newmark, Jim Keltner, Ringo Starr, Gary Wright and Ron Wood. This showed that Harrison was moving towards the funk and soul genres[2] and released the hit singles "Dark Horse" and "Ding-Dong, Ding-Dong". It reached number 4 on the Billboard 200 in the US charts and entered the top ten in some European countries, but became Harrison's first solo album after the Beatles not to hit the UK charts. ...more

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND-THE ROARING SILENCE-1976-CONTRACT PRESS UK-BRONZE -ILPS9357 matrix A1/B1 . A rare British original. CBS contract press. The Roaring Silence is the seventh studio album by the rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on August 27, 1976 by Bronze Records in the UK and Warner Bros. Records" in the USA. The album rose to #10 on the Billboard 200 and is the most commercially successful of the band's entire existence. ...more