Lot 40SUPERTRAMP-FREE AS A BIRD-1987-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-A&M-NMINT/NMINT

ZOO-ZOO-1971-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-BACILLUS - 6494006 Mega rare album on a prestigious label. ZOO is a French prog band based on blues and jazz. The debut album of the French band formed in 1968. Starting work in the studio on April 16, 1969, the musicians recorded 8 songs included in the album of the same name in 2 days. In November of the same year, the band took part in the festival in the Belgian city of Amougies together with "Pink Floyd", "Colosseum", "The Nice", "East Of Eden", Frank Zappa, etc. In 1970, before the release of the second album, Joël Daydé and Pierre Fanen left the band due to musical differences, and Englishman Ian Bellamy took the place of the vocalist. The second album was recorded from June 12 to September 9, 1970, later receiving the opportunity to promote on the two largest radio stations in New York - "WOR—FM" and "WABC-FM". Despite participating in many major festivals, they were unable to make an international career, and due to lack of commercial success, the group disbanded at the end of 1972. ...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

GOLDEN EARRING-MOONTAN-1973-THE FIRST PRESS UK-TRACK-2406-112 matrix A1/B1. Moontan is the ninth album by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1973. It contains the radio hit "Radar Love" and was voted the 9th best Dutch pop album by the readers of the music magazine Oor in 2008.. In the special edition of Q -Mojo Classic Story of Prog Rock, the album was ranked 32nd in the list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums". Moontan is the band's most successful album in the United States, the only Golden Earring album to be certified gold by the RIAA. ...more

GRADSKY, ALEXANDER-NOSTALGIA-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027089007. A rare original of the cult album. Nostalgia (vocal suite to poems by Vladimir Nabokov, music by A. Gradsky, recorded in 1984Alexander 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

FRUUPP FUTURE LEGENDS-1973-FIRST PRESS UK-DAWN-DNLS3053. Matrix A-2VG/B-1. (Version with a modified label) Rare first album of the cult British prog band. Future Legends is the debut studio album by Northern Irish progressive rock band Fruupp. Recorded in July 1973 and produced by Denis Taylor, it was released on October 5 in the UK on Dawn Records, a subsidiary of Pye Records for underground and progressive rock music. To promote the album, the band embarked on a two-month tour, which ended on November 29 with a concert at Whitla Hall in Belfast, where they played with the Ulster Youth Orchestra. ...more