Lot 10CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL-GREEN RIVER-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 USA-FANTASY-NMINT/NMINT

TEN YEARS AFTER-CRICKLEWOOD GREEN (+POSTER)-1970-FIRST PRESS UK-DERAM-SML1065. Matrices A-1W/B-1W. A very rare original of blues giants.  Cricklewood Green is the fourth studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1970. Allmusic gave Cricklewood Green an exceptionally positive retrospective review, praising each individual track and summarizing that "the band and engineer Andy Jones mix studio tricks and sound effects, blues-based song structures, a driving rhythm section and Alvin Lee's signature lightning-fast guitar playing into a single album that perfectly blends from start to finish" The album reached in 1970 in the USA -14 place, Australia -19 place. ...more

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

JOURNEY-DEPARTURE-1980-FIRST PRESS (PROMO) USA-COLUMBIA-AL36339. A rare American original of the cult album.  Departure is the sixth studio album by American rock band Journey. It was released on February 29, 1980 by Columbia Records. Department became Journey's highest-paid album at that time, which allowed them to appear in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album charts for the first time, peaking at number 8. The album includes "Any Way You Want It", the lead track and the top 25 single. ...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

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