Lot 79SLADE-SLADE IN FLAME-1974-FIRST PRESS UK-POLYDOR-NMINT/NMINT

BOWIE, DAVID-MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD -1971-ORIGINAL PRESS 1973 UK-RCA-LSP4816. A rare early edition of the cult album complete with a poster.. The third studio album by English musician David Bowie. It was originally released by Mercury Records in the United States on November 4, 1970 and in the United Kingdom on April 10, 1971. The album was produced by Tony Visconti and recorded at Trident and Advision Studios in London in April and May 1970. The album was initially a commercial failure. Pegg writes that by the end of June 1971, only 1,395 copies had been sold in the United States.. That same year, Bowie stated, "[he] sold like hot cakes in Beckenham and nowhere else."However, after the 1972 RCA reissue following Ziggy Stardust's commercial breakthrough, the album peaked at No. 24 in the UK, where it remained for 30 weeks, and number 105 on the Best Records charts, for as long as 23 weeks, the 1990 reissue of the album re-entered the UK album charts, peaking at number 66. ...more

DEEP PURPLE-IN ROCK-1970-THE FIRST PRESS UK-HARVEST number SHVL-777 matrix A1/B1 (Dream!!!!) stamper 2PM/1HG Mega rare original with unique matrices. Deep Purple in Rock is the first studio album by the classic line-up of the band known as "Mark II". On this album, the band's style changed to hard and heavy. ...more

INXS-WELCOME TO WHEREVER YOU ARE-1992-FIRST PRESS EU-HOLLAND-MERCURY-512507-1.  A rare European original of the cult group. Welcome to Wherever You Are is the eighth studio album by Australian rock band INXS, released on August 3, 1992.Taking a course on the grunge and alternative rock that was relevant in the first half of the 90s, INXS tried to find a new direction for themselves, a la U2 (Achtung Baby), the use of a sitar, a 60-string orchestra and a much more "raw" sound. Producer Mark Opitz described the writing process as follows: "There's a lot of Michael, Andrew and me on the album. The opinion of everyone and everyone is not present here, because some of them were busy with significant changes in their personal lives." The mixing was handled by Bob Klimauntin.While working on the album, INXS performed at the Concert for Life in March 1992, performing some of the songs to the accompaniment of the orchestra[8] and presenting two new songs - "Taste It" and "All Around".The CD took 1st place in the UK chart, 16th place in the US Billboard 200 chart and was among the top ten albums of the year according to Q and The Independent magazines. However, due to insufficient promotion of the album by the record company and the lack of a tour in support of the album (after successful tours in support of Kick and X, the band took a vacation with the intention of returning with a tour in support of two albums), the album sold worse than its predecessors - gold in Britain in 1992, platinum in the USA in 1997. The band performed at the 1993 Australian Record Industry Awards (nominated for "Best Band"), performing "Heaven Sent" to the soundtrack of instruments, but with live vocals. ...more

BEATLES-HEY JUDE-1970-(EXPORT) ORIGINAL PRESS 1971 - UK-APPLE-CPCS106. Matrix numbers: Side 1: YEX 981-1; Side 2: YEX 982-1. Stamper 3AR/3AG Second edition for export, printed from 1971 to 1973. Hey Jude or The Beatles Again is a compilation album by The Beatles, released in 1970 in the USA. The collection includes singles previously unreleased on albums; the "B" sides of singles; as well as the songs "I Should Have Known Better" and "Can't Buy Me Love", previously released in singles format by Capitol Records. The album rose to number two on the Billboard 200 chart. ...more

ABBA-VOULEZ-VOUS-1979-THE FIRST PRESS OF SWEDEN-POLAR - POLS282.A rare Swedish original of the cult album.  Voulez-Vous is the sixth studio album by Swedish pop band ABBA, released in 1979. The release is characterized by a large number of dance-oriented tracks, but it is wrong to define the genre of the album as exclusively "disco"; for example, the song "Does Your Mother Know" has quite definite rock motifs. The work on the album went on for more than a year, and during this time the participants had accumulated more material than what they managed to put on the album. Among the works of that period published much later, it is worth mentioning the composition Dream World, included as a bonus track on the 2010 reissue. In 1981, the album "Voulez-Vous" was released in the USSR by the company "Melody" and became the last numbered album "ABBA", released in the Soviet Union. The album, like the previous one, was a huge success, placing in the charts of all countries in the top ten. It became multi-platinum in just one year.  ...more