Lot 115LAID BACK-KEEP SMILING-1983-FIRST PRESS DANISH / HOLLAND - MEDLEY-NMINT/NMINT

WAITS, TOM-BLUE VALENTINE-1978-THE ORIGINAL PRESS 1983  OF GERMANY-ASYLUM-AS53088 is a rare German original of the sixth album from the master of tavern blues. Blue Valentine is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 5, 1978 on the Asylum Records label. It was recorded over six sessions from July to August 1978 with producer Bones Howe. Rickie Lee Jones is pictured with Waits on the back cover. ...more

NAZARETH-CLOSE ENOUGH FOR ROCK'N'ROLL-1976-First press (PROMO) ITALY-VERTIGO SWIRL -6370 412A . A very rare Italian original is the only edition on VERTIGO-SWIRL . Close Enough for Rock ' n ' Roll is the seventh studio album by the Scottish rock band Nazareth, released in 1976. The album was released in March 1976. The album was produced, as well as the previous one, by Manny Charlton. The highlight of the album is the composition Telegram, which is a four-part work describing the difficult touring life of rock musicians. Dan McCafferty: "The first album we recorded in Canada at Le Studio. And since then, Telegram has always opened concerts." In Britain, the album enjoyed modest success, but in Canada, Close Enough for Rock ' n ' Roll was able to rise to the 12th position of the national chart ...more

ZOO-COUNTY TOWN N-1983-FIRST PRESS 1994 RUSSIA-ZOO-M0054. A very rare original of the cult group. "County Town N" is the first studio album by the band "Zoo", recorded in 1983. The title track is one of the longest songs sung in Russian. One of the tribute albums to the memory of Mike and the band, released in 2005, was called "County Town N 20 years later". The album was recorded in the spring of 1983 on equipment in the building of the "House of the Young Technician" in Leningrad under the direction of Andrey Tropillo. A tape recorder of the Studer brand at the 38th speed and a Basf LR-56 film were used. The recording is characterized by a fairly high sound quality.All the songs included in the album were written by Mike Naumenko, with the exception of the song "Bells", which was written and performed by Alexander Khrabunov, the band's lead guitarist. ...more

RAINBOW-DOWN TO EARTH-1979-FIRST PRESS UK-POLYDOR-POLD5023. Matrices A-5/B-5. A rare British limited edition original of the cult album. Down to Earth is the fourth studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow. This is their last album with drummer Cozy Powell and the only album with vocalist Graham Bonnet. Released in 1979, it contains Rainbow's first hit single "Since You've Been Gone", marking the more commercial direction of the band's sound. In 2005, Down to Earth was ranked 431st in the list of the 500 greatest rock and metal albums of all time by Rock Hard Magazine  ...more

BRAVO-MOSCOW BIT-1992-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-SINTEZ-SP02-0018. A rare original album of the cult band. Moscow Beat is the seventh official album of the band Bravo. It was released in 1992. The soloist is Valery Syutkin. After the success of the previous album "Dudes from Moscow", the group "Bravo" became one of the first most successful groups of the post-Soviet space and the nascent Russian show business. And if the previous work was rather an edition of previously recorded material with small additions, then the new one was rather the result of the joint work of Khavtan and Syutkin. According to the memories of both, new songs were born exactly during the tour, the lyrics of new songs were often written on trains and planes. The album "Moscow Beat" expanded the audience of "Bravo" — it gained more and more fans in the cities of the former USSR, and the movement of stylists acquired another birth. ...more