Lot 118SECRET SERVICE-AUX DEUX MAGOTS-1987-FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-SONET-NMINT/NMINT

QUEEN-A NIGHT AT THE OPERA-1975-THE FIRST UK PRESS-EMI - EMTC103.Matrices A-2/B. (on the second side, the matrix is Scandinavian without a digit.) A rare British original. A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the rock band Queen, released on December 2, 1975. The record was a great success: its sales reached three million, and it held the top position in the UK charts for four inconsistent weeks. The title of the album — "Night at the Opera" — as well as the subsequent one, is taken from the repertoire of American comedians of the 1930s by the Marx brothers, namely from the film of the same name. At each Queen concert, several songs from A Night at the Opera were necessarily performed (while "Love of My Life" was never performed in the album version). It is generally believed that the song "Death on Two Legs" is dedicated to the former producer of the band. "Bohemian Rhapsody" brought the band a resounding success and in 2000 was recognized in Britain as the "song of the millennium". The final album, "God Save the Queen", is the British national anthem arranged by Brian May; it was this composition that invariably ended each concert of the band. The album was ranked number 230 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and number 128 on the 2020 list. ...more

DIRE STRAITS-ON EVERY STREET-1991-First HOLLAND press-VERTIGO - 510160-1 On Every Street is the sixth and final Studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1991. Reached the highest positions in the UK charts becoming double-platinum. It is worth noting that the album was kept in 20 countries to 44 weeks everywhere received platinum or double platinum, and in France received a diamond status. ...more

VAUGHAN,STEVIE RAY AND DOUBLE TROUBLE-COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER-1984-ORIGINAL PRESS 1986 UK/EU-HOLLAND-EPIC-EPC25940. Couldn't Stand the Weather is the second studio album by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble . It was released on May 15 , 1984 by Epic Records as a follow - up to the band 's critically and commercially successful 1983 album Texas Flood . The recordings took place in January 1984 at a power plant in New York . Stevie Ray Vaughan wrote half of the tracks, unable to withstand the weather. The album reached number 31 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the video for the song "Couldn't Stand the Weather" received regular rotation on MTV. The album received mostly positive reviews, with AllMusic giving it four out of five stars. ...more

QUEEN-NEWS OF THE WORLD-1977-FIRST UK PRESS-EMI room EMA784. Matrix A-3/B-2. Rare British original in fantastic condition. News of the World was sold in the amount of ten million copies. His fame is mainly provided by the first two songs: "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions". Latest eventually became a sports anthem. ...more

ABBA-VISITORS-1981 - FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-POLAR - - POLS342 Rare Swedish original in top condition. The Visitors is the eighth and final studio album by Swedish band ABBA. It was released on November 30, 1981 on the Swedish record label Polar. Recording for the album began in March and ended in November 1981 at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm. Like the previous albums, it went multi-platinum in all European countries and gold in the United States, Canada, and Australia. ...more