Lot 83JOHN LEE HOOKER-THE HEALER-1989-FIRST PRESS UK/EU -SILVERTONE-NMINT/NMINT

STEVE VAI- PASSION AND WARFARE - 1990- FIRST PRESS UK-FFT- GRUB17. A rare British original. Passion and Warfare is the second studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released on May 22, 1990 on Relativity and Epic Records. He received a gold certificate from the RIAA. Passion and Warfare was written based on a series of episodes of dreams that Vai had when he was younger, and in the album's guitar notes book Vai summarizes it this way: "Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur arranged for Mel Blanc." It was all recorded at Mothership Studios in his Hollywood Hills home, a 1,600-square-foot (150 m2) building that also recorded his guitar parts for Whitesnake's 1989 album Slip of the Tongue. Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale has small spoken parts on the album; Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg and Rudy Sarzo are credited with backing vocals. Vai claims that planning for the album began back in 1982, but was postponed after joining David Lee Roth's band and was not resumed until the breakup with Roth in 1989. ...more

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EAGLES-GREATEST HITS (1971-1975)-1976-FIRST PRESS USA-ASYLUM-7E1052 . PRC PRESS . A rare American original of the cult collection . The first compilation album by the American rock band the Eagles, released on February 17, 1976 by Asylum Records. The album contains a selection of songs from the first four Eagles albums released between the formation of the Eagles in 1971 and 1975. Their greatest hits (1971-1975) reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, where they remained for five weeks. "One of These Nights" and "The Best of My Love" topped the Billboard Hot 100. The album is notable for being the first album to receive platinum certification by the RIAA, which was introduced in 1976 to recognize albums sold a million copies in the United States. It peaked at number four on the Billboard year-end Albums chart in 1976 and spent a total of 239 weeks on the Billboard 200 as of August 2018. Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) was the best-selling album of the 20th century in the United States, and it remained so for several years until it was surpassed by Michael Jackson's thriller after the artist's death in 2009.. But he regained this title in August 2018. In 2017, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Register of Records as "culturally, historically, or artistically significant." ...more

VAYA CON DIOS-NIGHT OWLS-1990-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-BMG-210600. A rare original of a popular rock band. Night Owls is the second studio album by the Belgian blues-rock band Vaya Con Dios, released on the Ariola Records label in 1990. Vaya Con Dios have been working on this album for three years. The songs "Nah Neh Nah", "What's a Woman?", "Night Owls" were released as singles. "Nah Neh Nah" became a hit not only in Belgium, but also in Europe, remaining a popular hit for a long time. To this day, this composition is considered one of the best in the work of the collective, as well as the most famous song of the group. Night Owls has sold 2 million copies. For successful sales, the disc received a gold certificate in Sweden and Finland, and in Germany it was awarded platinum status ...more

QUEEN - THE GAME-1980-FIRST UK PRESS-EMI-EMA795 of the Matrix A-3U/B-7U MASTERED AT ALLEN ZENTZ L. A., CALIF. Very rare British original. The Game ("Game") is the eighth Studio album by British rock band Queen released 30 June 1980. The album was recorded in Studio "Musicland" in Munich (Germany) from June 1979 to may 1980. The album was well received: it became five times platinum in Canada alone. This is the only album of Queen, took first place in the charts in the UK and USA. ...more