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OSBOURNE, OZZY-BLIZZARD OF OZZ-1980-THE FIRST EU-HOLLAND-EPIC/JET-JETLP234 PRESS. A very rare European original of the cult album.Blizzard of Ozz is the debut studio album by British rock musician Ozzy Osbourne, which was recorded in Surrey, UK and released on September 20, 1980 in the UK and March 27, 1981 in the USA. To this day, Blizzard of Ozz remains Ozzy Osbourne's best-selling album; more than five million copies have been sold in the US alone  ...more

BEATLES-1 (2 LP)-2000-FIRST UK/EU PRESS-APPLE number 724352932511."1" is a compilation album of Beatles songs, an attempt by Capitol Records to release the best—selling album of all time. The CD contains 27 Beatles singles, which at one time (1962-1970) reached the first line of the British or American charts. "1" was released on November 13, 2000 on the Apple/Parlophone label. ...more

INXS-WELCOME TO WHEREVER YOU ARE-1992-FIRST PRESS EU-HOLLAND-MERCURY-512507-1.  A rare European original of the cult group. Welcome to Wherever You Are is the eighth studio album by Australian rock band INXS, released on August 3, 1992.Taking a course on the grunge and alternative rock that was relevant in the first half of the 90s, INXS tried to find a new direction for themselves, a la U2 (Achtung Baby), the use of a sitar, a 60-string orchestra and a much more "raw" sound. Producer Mark Opitz described the writing process as follows: "There's a lot of Michael, Andrew and me on the album. The opinion of everyone and everyone is not present here, because some of them were busy with significant changes in their personal lives." The mixing was handled by Bob Klimauntin.While working on the album, INXS performed at the Concert for Life in March 1992, performing some of the songs to the accompaniment of the orchestra[8] and presenting two new songs - "Taste It" and "All Around".The CD took 1st place in the UK chart, 16th place in the US Billboard 200 chart and was among the top ten albums of the year according to Q and The Independent magazines. However, due to insufficient promotion of the album by the record company and the lack of a tour in support of the album (after successful tours in support of Kick and X, the band took a vacation with the intention of returning with a tour in support of two albums), the album sold worse than its predecessors - gold in Britain in 1992, platinum in the USA in 1997. The band performed at the 1993 Australian Record Industry Awards (nominated for "Best Band"), performing "Heaven Sent" to the soundtrack of instruments, but with live vocals. ...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

DEEP PURPLE & THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, MALCOLM ARNOLD-CONCERTO FOR GROUP AND ORCHESTRA-1970-FIRST UK PRESS-HARVEST - SHVL767. of the matrix A-1/B-1 Stamper 2AR/1AA (Very early!) Concerto for Group and Orchestra (in translation from English. — "Concerto for group and orchestra") is a live album by British rock band Deep Purple, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic orchestra. One of the first attempts to blend classical music and rock music in one work. Was released in the U.S. in December 1969, and in the UK in January 1970. At the time of formation of the second Deep Purple line in the group, there was a confrontation between art-rock ambitions of Lord John and the hard-rock of Ritchie Blackmore. The Lord considered the possibility of creating works which will combine the features of classical and rock music. Deep Purple Manager Tony Edwards decides to go for broke and reserves albert Hall on 24 September, leaving John Lord about six months to write the score. Ritchie Blackmore subsequently terribly envious of the Lord, that idea came to mind not to him ...more