Lot 66SLADE-ROGUES GALLERY-1984-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY-RCA-NMINT/NMINT

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

JIMMY GIUFFRE-WESTERN SUITE-1960-FIRST PRESS USA-ATLANTIC-1330. A rare original of the cult album. Western Suite is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre, released on the Atlantic label in 1960.. Allmusic rated the album 4 stars  ...more

ERIC BURDON AND WAR-ERIC BURDON DECLARES "WAR" - 1970-FIRST PRESS USA-MGM number SE4663.A rare original in top condition.  It is the first of two original albums by the funk band Eric Burdon and The War, released on MGM in April 1970. It reached number 18 on the record charts in the US, number 50 in the UK and number 7 in Australia. On the back cover there is a statement: "We, the People, have declared war on the People for the right to love each other." The album received gold gold status in the United States and Europe.  ...more

DEEP PURPLE-DEEP PURPLE-1969-THE FIRST PRESS UK-HARVEST-SHVL759 Matrix A-1/B-1 Stamper 1G/1G (Dream!) A very rare British original of the cult group. Deep Purple (also known as April) is the third studio album by the British band Deep Purple. The last album created by the original line-up of the band, known as "Mark I". Recorded between January and March 1969) at De Lane Lea Studios in London. It was released in the US in June on the Tetragrammaton Records label, and in the UK in September 1969 on the Harvest Records label. The most famous composition of the album (after which the entire album is often called) is the final 12-minute piece "April", recorded with the participation of specially hired musicians playing wind and string instruments. ...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