Lot 66FOREIGNER-HEAD GAMES-1979-FIRST PRESS PROMO USA-ATLANTIC-NMINT/NMINT

GABRIEL, PETER-SO-1986-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-VIRGIN-207587-630. Rare European original.So is the most successful album of Gabriel's entire career, it reached the top of the UK chart, and became #2 in the United States. The CD was certified platinum three times in the UK and five times in the USA. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 14th in its list of the "100 Best Albums of the eighties" ...more

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

ALAN PARSONS PROJECT-PYRAMID-1978-First Press UK-ARISTA-SPART1054 matrix A1/B1 Pyramid is the third studio album by the English art rock band "The Alan Parsons Project", released in 1978. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1978 in the category "Best Production Work in the genre of Modern Music". The main theme of the album was the Great Pyramid of Giza and ancient Egyptian culture, which were at the peak of popularity in the USA and Great Britain in those years ...more

DIRE STRAITS-COMMUNIQUE-1979-FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO- 9102031. A rare British original of the cult album.Communiqué is the second studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1979. Communiqué was recorded in November-December 1978, at Compass Point Studios, Nassau and produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett. The album was the first to debut in the German charts at number 1 in the first week of sales (their debut album Dire Straits was still at number 3 in this country). In total, it has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. In Europe, 3,600 thousand copies were sold, and in the USA it reached gold status. ...more

BEATLES-ROCK'N'ROLL MUSIC (2 VINYL)-1976-FIRST PRESS UK-PARLOPHONE- PCSP719 matrix A1/B1/C1/D1 Rock ’n’ Roll Music - compilation album of songs by the British rock band The Beatles, consisting of previously released tracks by The Beatles, which are, according to many, the quintessence of a style of music called "rock and roll". The album was released in the USA on June 7, 1976 by Capitol Records (catalog number SKBO 11537), in the UK on June 10, 1976 by Parlophone (catalog number PCSP 719); at that time, some media suggested that the album was released on the twentieth anniversary of the first meeting of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. If this was indeed the intention, then EMI made a mistake in their calculations, since in reality these two first met in July 1957. The album's title, Rock ’n’ Roll Music, is most likely taken from a Chuck Berry song, a version of which performed by The Beatles was included on the second side of the album. The album mainly consists of cover versions of songs written by such prominent rock and roll authors and performers of the 1950s as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins and Larry Williams, as well as notable original songs by the Lennon-McCartney duo, such as "Drive My Car", "Revolution", "Back in the U.S.S.R." and "Get Back". Rock 'n' Roll Music was The Beatles' first album to include the song "I'm Down", which had previously been available only on the "B" side of the single "Help!". ...more