Lot 32ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER & TIM RICE-JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR-1970-FIRST PRESS(STANDART) UK-MCA-NMINT/NMINT

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL-COSMO'S FACTORY-1970-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 USA-FANTASY-F8402 Rare early edition of the cult album. Cosmo's Factory is the fifth studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in July 1970 on Fantasy Records. The CD was recorded at Wally Heider's San Francisco studio. The album was named after the building where the band set up a working residence, as well as drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford, who for the first time called this building a "Factory". Cosmo's Factory became Creedence Clearwater Revival's most commercially successful album (topping the charts of the USA, UK, Australia) and marked (according to many rock critics) the peak of the band's creativity[1]. The singles from it were "Lookin' Out My Back Door" (#2 USA, #20 UK), "Travelin' Band" (#2 USA, #8 UK), "Up Around the Bend" (#4, USA, #3 UK) ...more

RAINBOW-LONG LIVE ROCK 'N' ROLL-1978-FIRST PRESS UK-POLYDOR- POLD5002.  Matrix A-1/B-1 is a rare British original of the cult album. In 2002, the album took the 40th position in the ranking of the "100 best rock albums of all time" according to Classic Rock magazine.  ...more

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-BLESS ITS POINTED LITTLE HEAD+ POSTER-1969- FIRST PRESS USA-RCA-LSP4133. A very rare original of the cult album. Bless It Pointed Little Head is a Jefferson Airplane album recorded live at Fillmore East and West in the fall of 1968 and released in 1969 as RCA Victor LSP-4133. Five songs from the album did not appear on any of the band's previous studio recordings. Many of the Airplane's recordings on the album were longer than their studio performances. The performance emphasized their vocal harmony and showed a tougher rock band. Guitar and bass parts were deeper in their construction, revealing complex instrumental parts.  The album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200. ...more

GRADSKY, ALEXANDER-FLUTE AND PIANO-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027091005. A rare original of the cult album. Flute and piano (vocal suite to poems by V. Mayakovsky and B. Pasternak, music by A. Gradsky, recorded in 1983 by Alexander 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

ROLLING STONES-BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS)-1966-ORIGINAL PRESS 1968 UK-DECCA -TXS101. Matrices XZAL-7503-4W, XZAL-7504-3W. A rare stereo British original press of the iconic ROLLING STONES album.  ROLLING STONES. 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