Lot 103COCKER, JOE -LIVE-1990-FIRST PRESS EEC-CAPITOL-NMINT/NMINT

FREE-TONS OF SOBS-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1969 UK-ISLAND ILPS-9089. Matrices +A2/+B2. A very rare original of the second press of the cult album of the British blues prog. Tons of Sobs is the debut studio album by the British rock band Free, released by Island Records on March 14, 1969. One of the first albums in the blues-rock style. The album did not chart in the UK, but reached #197 on the Billboard Hot 200 in the US.At the time of recording the album, all the members of the band Free were very young: none of them had turned twenty yet, and bass guitarist Andy Fraser was sixteen years old at all. They achieved some success through constant touring, and their debut album was composed mainly of compositions performed at concerts. The budget allocated for the recording of the album was only 800 pounds[2]. Most of the album was recorded over a few days in October 1968. The album was originally scheduled for release in November 1968, but then postponed to early 1969 due to the late addition of a cover version of the blues composition "The Hunter" by Albert King ...more

BEATLES-LIVE AT THE BBC-1994-THE FIRST UK PRESS-APPLE number 8317961 Live at the BBC is a compilation album published in 1994, which features performances by The Beatles during various radio programs broadcast by the British radio station BBC Light Program, part of the BBC Corporation, in the period from 1963 to 1965 years. The album was recorded in monophonic sound. The album contains 56 songs and 13 tracks with dialogues; 30 songs featured on the album had never been released on record before. ...more

PET SHOP BOYS-DISCO-1986-THE FIRST UK PRESS-PARLOPHONE-PRG1001. A rare original of the cult group. Disco is the first remix album by the English electronic duo Pet Shop Boys, released on November 17, 1986 by Parlophone Records in the UK and EMI America Records in the USA. Disco consists of remixes of tracks from the band's debut album Please and its respective B-sides. The album includes remixes by Arthur Baker, Shep Pettibone and the Pet Shop Boys themselves. ...more

BLACK SABBATH-BLACK SABBATH -1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 UK-VERTIGO-VO6/847903VTY. Matrices A-1/B-1. A mega rare original of the second press of the first album, which is one of the icons in rock music. Black Sabbath is the debut album by the rock band Black Sabbath, released in the United Kingdom 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, Black Sabbath's debut album is now 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

BEATLES-LET IT BE...NAKED-2003-THE FIRST JAPAN-APPLE-TOJP-601121/22 PRESS. A very rare Japanese original of the cult album. "Let It Be... Naked" is an alternative version of the 1970 album "Let It Be", created from the original recordings of "The Beatles". The CD was released in November 2003. The track list has been changed in the new album, and the new versions of the songs include both digitally corrected errors and new arrangements of some songs. "Maggie Mae" and "Dig It" were replaced by "Don't Let Me Down". The bonus disc "Fly on the Wall" contains a 20-minute recording of working takes and dialogues recorded while working in the studio. The author of the idea was Paul McCartney; George Harrison managed to express his approval of the project ...more