Lot 22HUMBLE PIE-PERFORMANCE ROCKIN' THE FILMORE-1971-FIRST PRESS UK -AM-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

PRINCE -LOVE SYMBOL(2LP'S)-1992-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY-WARNER-WX490/936245037-1. A very rare original of the cult album. Love Symbol Album is the fourteenth studio album by American singer Prince, released on October 13, 1992 on the Warner Bros. label. Records. Prince logo.svg reached number one on the UK chart (for the 4th time in his career), Austria and Australia and number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, received platinum status in the UK and in the USA ...more

BLACK SABBATH-BLACK SABBATH -1970-ORIGINAL PRESS 1974 USA-WARNER-WS1871. Winchester pressing. A rare early American edition of the first album being one of the icons in rock music. Black Sabbath is the debut album by the rock band Black Sabbath, released in the UK on February 13, 1970. On March 7, 1970, the album rose to #8 on the UK Albums Chart and to #23 on the Billboard 200. Recorded in just three days (8 hours of studio work) and costing the band only 1,200 pounds, today Black Sabbath's debut album is considered a heavy metal classic. In the IGN Music list (Top 25 Metal Albums), he is in 13th place (the band's second album, Paranoid, is second here, behind Master of Puppets (Metallica)).  ...more

NUCLEUS-ELASTIC ROCK-1970-THE FIRST UK PRESS-VERTIGO SWIRL-6360008. Mega rare original of the cult jazz-rock progressive British band. Elastic Rock is the first album by Nucleus band. Recorded in January 1970, it became a groundbreaking work in the emerging genre of jazz-rock fusion. Band leader Ian Carr (later a jazz journalist and published expert on Miles Davis) was probably inspired by Davis' "going electric" in 1969, but the original song Bitches Brew had not yet been released at the time of Elastic Rock recording, and according to Carr, they had not even heard Davis' 1969 electric release. less influenced by rock, In a Silent Way. In July 1970, the band presented compositions from the LP at the Montreux Jazz Festival, receiving the first prize. Subsequently, they performed both at the Newport Jazz Festival and at the Village Gate Jazz Club. ...more

PINK FLOYD-FINAL CUT-1983-FIRST PRESS USA-COLUMBIA - QC38243 Matrix A-G1A/B-G1A. A rare American original of the cult album. This is the last Pink Floyd album that Roger Waters participated in. The album is dedicated to Roger Waters' father who died in World War II. The Final Cut was released in the UK on March 21, 1983, and in the US on April 2, it reached number one in the UK, surpassing The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. It was less successful in America, peaking at number six on the Billboard album charts. With over 1,000,000 units shipped in the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America certified Final Cut Platinum in May 1983. In 1997, he received a double platinum certification. ...more