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SUPERTRAMP-FREE AS A BIRD-1987-FIRST GERMANY PRESS-A&M-395181-1. Rare German original album from legendary group. Free as a Bird is the ninth Studio album English rock band Supertramp, released in 1987 . The album was a kind of turn directions, and most of the songs retreated from its progressive rock sound with synthesized dance beats and rhythms. Chief songwriter Rick Davies later recalled "Free as a Bird was an experiment to try to be a modern album. ...more

SAVOY BROWN-LOOKING IN-1970-THE FIRST UK-DECCA-SKL5066 Matrix A-1W/B-1W PRESS. A rare British original of the cult blues-rock band. Looking In is the sixth album by British blues band Savoy Brown. The album featured "Lonesome" Dave Peverett on vocals after Chris Yulden left the band last spring. Leader/guitarist Kim Simmonds will be the only band member to continue working with the band after this album, as all the other band members left to form Foghat next year. It was released by Decca in 1970 (SKL 5066). For release in the USA and Canada, the cassettes were leased to Parrot Records (PAS 71042). The album spent a week in the official UK charts and reached number 50. It performed significantly better in the US, where it spent 19 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 39, their second-highest album on the US charts. ...more

EAGLES-GREATEST HITS (1971-1975)-1976-FIRST PRESS USA-ASYLUM-7E1052 . PRC PRESS . A rare American original of the cult collection . The first compilation album by the American rock band the Eagles, released on February 17, 1976 by Asylum Records. The album contains a selection of songs from the first four Eagles albums released between the formation of the Eagles in 1971 and 1975. Their greatest hits (1971-1975) reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, where they remained for five weeks. "One of These Nights" and "The Best of My Love" topped the Billboard Hot 100. The album is notable for being the first album to receive platinum certification by the RIAA, which was introduced in 1976 to recognize albums sold a million copies in the United States. It peaked at number four on the Billboard year-end Albums chart in 1976 and spent a total of 239 weeks on the Billboard 200 as of August 2018. Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) was the best-selling album of the 20th century in the United States, and it remained so for several years until it was surpassed by Michael Jackson's thriller after the artist's death in 2009.. But he regained this title in August 2018. In 2017, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Register of Records as "culturally, historically, or artistically significant." ...more

DIRE STRAITS-DIRE STRAITS-1978--FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO - 9102021.Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released in October 1978. On October 7, 1978, the album "Dire Straits" was officially released on the Phonogram label. Since 1979, the album has been released under the Vertigo label. The album's sales results are quite impressive — four million copies were sold in Europe, two million copies in the USA. The fate of singles is diametrically different — Sultans of Swing was accepted by the public, reached the 8th position in the UK chart. Water of Love was released in some countries and the best achievement was the 54th position in the Australian chart. ...more

LENNON, JOHN AND YOKO ONO-YOKO ONO/PLASTIC ONO BAND-1970-THE FIRST PRESS DANISH-APPLE- PCS7124. Matrix A-1U/B-1U It is worth noting that the de jure Danish press was completely made in Britain with Made in Denmark on the label. The first solo album by LENNON and ONO in the LENNON JOHN version.John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is John Lennon's first official solo album, released in 1970.The album cover is almost identical to the cover of Yoko Ono's album "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band". The difference is that on the album "Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band" Yoko lies on Lennon's body, and on the album "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" on the contrary.On the back of the cover in the original edition, the track list of the album was not put, instead, on the back of the album, a photograph of John Lennon at school age, circa 1946, was placed.Plastic Ono Band is a supergroup formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969. Among the various members of the band were Eric Clapton, two former members of The Beatles, old friend Klaus Wurmann, future drummer of Yes Alan White, Delaney and Bonnie, drummer of The Who Keith Moon, New York band Elephant's Memory, Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins, Phil Spector, and drummer Jim Keltner ...more