Lot 100MULLIGAN, GERRY/BAKER CHET-CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT VOL.1-1975-FIRST PRESS USA-CTI-NMINT/NMINT

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY-DOMINATION-1965-FIRST PRESS USA-CAPITOL-ST2203. A rare original of the cult album.  Domination is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, released on the Capitol label and featuring performances by Adderley with an orchestra conducted by Oliver Nelson.  The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album 3½ stars, stating: "Both Adderleys feature in Oliver Nelson's monumental sound chart series, which go through exemplary remastering - on very adventurous material"  ...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

DIRE STRAITS-LOVE OVER GOLD-1982-FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO - 6359109 . A rare British original of the cult group. Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on September 20, 1982 on Vertigo Records and Warner Bros. Records in the USA. The presence of detailed musical compositions with long instrumental passages in the album brings it closer in style to progressive rock. This is the last CD of the band recorded with the participation of the original drummer Peak Withers. The singles from the album, "Private Investigations", reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Industrial Disease" reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The album topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the UK, and peaked at No. 19 in the US. Love over Gold was later certified gold in the US, platinum in France and Germany, and double platinum in Canada and the UK. ...more

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

WINGS-VENUS AND MARS-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-CAPITOL-PCTC254 - a-2U/B - 1U PORKY/ROOM . Venus and Mars is the fourth Studio album by Wings, released in 1975. The CD was released after the extraordinary success of Band on the Run and also became very popular. Paul McCartney's first album with Capitol Records. After the release of Band on the Run, Wings also included Jimmy McCulloch (lead guitarist) and Jeff Britton (drummer) in 1974. After McCartney wrote several new songs for the upcoming album, the band flew to New Orleans in January 1975 to record Venus and Mars.Britton, after an argument with McCulloch, left the band, having managed to participate in the recording of only three songs of the album. He was urgently picked up a replacement-American Joe English, with whom the recording was continued. McCartney made the songs in Venus and Mars flow smoothly into each other, and the album in this sense became similar to the Beatles ' Abbey Road album. The album was received very warmly, and in all countries of the continent it reaches the Top 10 of the charts. According to the results, album of the year, places are also high, in the UK 5 place, USA-1 place according to the Billboard 200. ...more