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BON JOVI-SLIPPERY WHEN WET-1986-UK FIRST PRESS-VERTIGO-VERH38. Rare original British cult rockers. Slippery When Wet is the third Studio album by Bon Jovi, released in August 1986 on Vertigo Records. The album includes songs that are now considered the most famous Bon Jovi songs, such as "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead Or Alive". The album spent eight weeks at No. 1 The Billboard 200. Slippery When Wet is the best-selling album. The U.S. has sold 12 million copies worldwide — more than 28 million. The album received a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. He was named the best selling album of 1987 by Billboard, and is currently 21st all-time. The album also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. ...more

KINGDOM COME-IN YOUR FACE-1989-First press EU-GERMANY-POLYDOR number 83912-1. A very rare European original of the cult album.. The second album by the German-American hard rock band Kingdom Come. Singles from the album charted in the UK. ...more

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

BECK, JEFF-TRUTH-1968-FIRST PRESS UK-COLUMBIA- SCX6293. Matrices A-1/B-1 . 1H/1O Stamper (A dream!) A very rare British original of the blues rock grandee. Truth is the debut album by Jeff Beck, released in 1968 in the UK on Columbia Records and in the USA on Epic Records. He introduced the talents of his backing band The Jeff Beck Group, in particular Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, to a wider audience and reached number 15 on the Billboard 200 . ...more

ABBA-THE ALBUM-1977-FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-POLAR - POLS282. Rare original Swedish cult band. The Album is the fifth Studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, released in 1977. It is considered to be more "Americanized" compared to previous, as evidenced by the confessions of the group members and, indirectly, the success of the singles from the album in the American charts. ...more