Lot 72BUDGIE-NIGHTFLIGHT-1981-FIRST PRESS UK-RCA-NMINT/NMINT

MADNESS-ABSOLUTELY-1980-THE FIRST UK-STIFF-SEEZ29 PRESS. A rare British original of the cult album.  Absolute is the second album by the British ska band Madness released in 1980. The album reached number 2 in the UK charts. Absolute spawned some of the band's biggest hits, most notably "BaggyPants", which peaked at number 3 in the UK and spent over four months on the singles chart. "Confusion" took 4th place, and the instrumental "The Return of the Los Palmas 7" rose to 7th place. Although reviews of the album, as a rule, were less enthusiastic than those of One Step Beyond... ...more

SUNDAY-SUNDAY-1991-FIRST PRESS RUSSIA-FEE LEE-FL3-001. A very rare original of the cult album. Resurrection is the second studio album by the band Resurrection, recorded in 1981. Until 1991, it existed only as a tape album, distributed by copying. Included in the book by Alexander Kushnir "100 magnetoalbums of Soviet rock" The recording was made on June 7-10, 1981. The sound engineer was Alexander "Artem" Arutyunov. The album was mixed on the spot.  The songs "In life, like in a dark thicket", "Who's to blame?" and "I used to wander alone" were first recorded in 1979 on the first album. A total of 9 songs were recorded. The picture on the cover is drawn by Mikhail Shevyakov. ...more

ROLLING STONES-BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS)-1966-FIRST PRESS (STEREO) UK-DECCA-TXS101. Matrices XZAL-7503-4W, XZAL-7504-3W. A very rare British original of the iconic ROLLING STONES album. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is the first compilation album by The Rolling Stones. With various covers and track listings, it was released on March 28, 1966 on London Records in the US and on November 4, 1966 on Decca Records in the UK. The American edition focused on songs from 1964 and 1965 with two new tunes: the recent "19th Nervous Breakdown" and the re-recorded "Time Is on My Side" with a guitar intro. The British version covered a longer period, starting with the band's first A-side single in 1963, "Come On", and ending with several songs from 1966, including the recent hit "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" The album reached number three on the US Billboard 200 chart.[1] and the fourth place in the UK albums chart.[2] It remained on the chart for 99 weeks in the US, where the RIAA certified the album as double platinum, which meant more than two million copies sold. ...more

T.REX-BOLAN'S ZIP GUN-1974-THE FIRST UK PRESS-EMI -BLNA7752. Matrices A-1/B-2 . 1M/1A stampers (A dream!) A rare British original. Bolan's Zip Gun is the tenth studio album by British and Australian rock band T. Rex, released on February 16, 1975 by EMI. Eight of the album's eleven songs have already been released in the US last year on the label Casablanca Records. Zip Gun was a repackaging with three additional tracks.  However, it was the only T. Rex album that did not chart in the UK, although highly appreciated by critics and fans. ...more

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-BALANCE OF POWER -1986-THE FIRST PRESS OF EU-HOLLAND-JET-26467 is a rare original of the cult album.  Balance of Power is the eleventh studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1986. This is the last album of the band featuring co-founder Bev Bevan on drums, as well as the last album to which keyboardist Richard Tandy made a significant contribution. The album received high marks and placed in the charts of Europe from 3rd place in Sweden to 19th place in Germany. Certified in Britain with silver -60000 copies.  ...more