Lot 88ABBA-ALBUM-1977-FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-POLAR-NMINT/NMINT

KAYAK-MERLIN-1981-THE FIRST PRESS HOLLAND-VERTIGO-6423432. A rare Dutch original of the cult album. The eighth studio album by Dutch band Kayak. The first half of the original LP (tracks 1 to 5) is a conceptual story about the wizard Merlin. The second half of the LP is a collection of individual songs. The album received very high marks, and many call it the best album of the band's creativity. In 2003, KAYAK released a revised and longer version of Merlin's story called Merlin - Bard of the Unseen. ...more

SAVOY BROWN-A STEP FUTHER-1969-THE FIRST PRESS UK-DECCA-SKL5013 Matrix A-1W/B-1W. A rare British original of the cult blues-rock band. A Step Further is the fourth album by Savoy Brown. It was released by Decca in the UK and Parrot in the US in September 1969. This is the last album recorded with longtime pianist Bob Hall. The album track "Made Up My Mind" first appeared as the B-side of an American single on Parrot Records 45-40039 (released in June 1969), accompanied by "Train to Nowhere" from their album Blue Matter. The track "Waiting in the Bamboo Grove" would later be released as the B-side of the British Decca single F 13019 (released in May 1970) "A Hard Way To Go" from their album. Raw siena. Side Two was recorded live at Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton, London, on May 12, 1969. It performed significantly better in the United States, where it spent 10 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 71. ...more

MADONNA-I'M BREATHLESS-1990-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-SIRE/WARNER-7599-26209-1 . A rare European original of the Queen of pop music. I'm Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy is a soundtrack by American singer Madonna, released on May 22, 1990, recorded for the purposes of promoting the film Dick Tracy, released in the summer of 1990. The disc mixes numbered soundtracks and songs inspired by the film. This album was commercially successful, it reached the top ten on the Billboard 200 in the United States, as well as in several other countries. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) designated it gold, platinum and double platinum on July 30, 1990, after two million sales in the United States: it has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. ...more

ALICE COOPER-LACE AND WHISKEY -1977-FIRST PRESS UK-WARNER-K56365. Matrix A-1/B-1 is a rare British original of the cult album. Lace and Whiskey is the third solo and tenth studio album by American singer Alice Cooper, released on April 29, 1977 by Warner Bros.The album reached number 42 in the US and number 33 in the UK Albums chart ...more

GRADSKY, ALEXANDER-FLUTE AND PIANO-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027091005. A rare original of the cult album. Flute and piano (vocal suite to poems by V. Mayakovsky and B. Pasternak, music by A. Gradsky, recorded in 1983 by Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (born Fradkin; b. November 3, 1949, Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet and Russian singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, poet, composer. One of the founders of Russian rock. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997). Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1999). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2014). Artistic Director of the Gradsky Hall Theater. ...more