Lot 4BEATLES 1967-1970 -1973-FIRST PRESS UK-APPLE-NMINT/NMINT

JOPLIN, JANIS-IN CONCERT (2LP'S)-1972- FIRST PRESS USA-COLUMBIA-AL31162.  A rare American original of the cult album. In Concert is a live album by Janis Joplin. It was released in 1972, after Joplin's death, as a double album. The first record contains performances with Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the second with the Full Tilt Boogie Band, recorded in different locations in 1968 and 1970. There are no live recordings from her first solo work with the Kozmic Blues band on the album, although the songs produced with this group were performed in Full Tilt Boogie Band recordings. The photographs used for the gatefold album were taken by photographer David Gar in New York in 1969 and 1970. The album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 in the US. ...more

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

GABRIEL, PETER-PASSION-1989-THE FIRST EU-GERMANY-REAL WORLD PRESS number RWLP1. A rare European original. It was originally written as the soundtrack to the film "The Last Temptation of Christ", but Gabriel spent several months after the film's release developing the music, finally releasing it as a full-fledged album instead of the soundtrack to the film. It is considered a milestone in the popularization of world music and won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in 1990. ...more

BEATLES-ABBEY ROAD-1969-FIFTH PRESS 1976 UK-APPLE -PCS7088 Matrixyex 749-4/YEX 750-3. Fifth Press, summer 1976-1980. Light green label apple.Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the British rock band The Beatles. Work on Abbey Road took place from February to August 1969 and became the last joint project of all four members of the ensemble (the last numbered album of the group Let It Be, released in 1970, was mostly recorded in January 1969). The record was produced by George Martin, who had worked with the band since 1962. Abbey Road sales totaled four million copies in the first two months. In the UK, the album debuted at the top of the national chart, where it remained for 11 weeks, after which it was supplanted by The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed for one week. Then he returned to the 1st place again (in the Christmas week) and stayed there for another six weeks (17 weeks in total), until he was displaced by the second Led Zeppelin record - Led Zeppelin II. Abbey Road spent a total of 81 weeks on the UK Albums chart. There was a similar situation abroad. The record occupied the top spot of the Billboard Top LP chart for 11 weeks, becoming the best-selling album of 1969 according to the National Association of Recording Companies, as well as one of the record holders of the Japanese chart, appearing in its Top 100 for 298 weeks throughout the 1970s. ...more

MADONNA-IMMACULATE COLLECTION (2LP'S) - 1990-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY-SIRE/WARNER-WX370/7599264401. A very rare original of the queen of pop.  The Immaculate Collection is Madonna's first greatest hits compilation, released on November 9, 1990. It is considered the best and most commercially successful collection of the singer's hits. The first single released was "Justify My Love", which was released the day before the compilation was released. The Immaculate Collection ranked second among the albums on the Billboard charts. More than 30 million copies were sold worldwide, including nine million in the US and five million in the UK. ...more