Lot 41PLANT, ROBERT-MANIC NIRVANA-1990-FIRST PRESS UK/EU GERMANY-ES PARANZA-NMINT/NMINT

DIRE STRAITS-MAKING MOVIES-1980-FIRST PRESS CANADA-MERCURY-SRM1-8857 . A rare American original.  Making Movies is the third studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 17 October 1980 by Vertigo Records International, Warner Bros. in the United States and Mercury in Canada. The album includes the single "Romeo and Juliet", which reached number 8 on the UK singles chart, the album reached number one on the album charts in Italy and Norway, number 19 in the United States, and number 4 in the United Kingdom. It was later certified platinum in the United States and double platinum in the United Kingdom. It is considered one of the best Dire Straits albums. ...more

WARM DUST-PEACE FOR OUR TIME-1970-THE FIRST UK-TREND PRESS-6480001. A very rare British original of the iconic album. Peace For Our Time is the second album by the English progressive jazz-rock band Warm Dust, released in 1971 on an obscure label Trend in the UK. In 1971, the album was also released in the USA (UNI Records 73109), Italy (Stateside, EMI Italiana S.p.A 3C 062-92228) - everywhere in the same envelope with a spread, and in Italy also on white vinyl (probably because in April 1971 Warm Dust was awarded a reception by the Pope at the Vatican). This is a concept album, the idea of which is expressed in the title itself, as the cover suggests to us. Under the title Peace For Our Time (Peace for Our Time) attributed to: Neville Chamberlain, September 30, 1938. The story is as follows. On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London after signing the ill-fated Munich Agreement, according to which Germany ate a good piece of Czechoslovakia in the form of the Sudetenland. Chamberlain stood with this document outside the Foreign Office in Downing Street and spoke complacently: "Dear friends, for the second time in our history, an honorable peace returns from Germany to Downing Street. I believe this is the world for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts, and I recommend that you go home and sleep peacefully in your beds." And the next day, Hitler's troops occupied Czechoslovakia, and a year later the Second World War began. Since then, this phrase has been ironic or sarcastic, if you will. ...more

QUEEN-A NIGHT AT THE OPERA-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-EMI - EMTC103.Matrices A-6/B-5.MR. BLAIR'S CUT . 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 in the UK charts it held the first position 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 considered 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 anthem of Great Britain arranged by Brian May; it was this composition that invariably completed each concert of the band. The album was ranked 230th on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and 128th on the 2020 list. ...more

SINATRA, FRANK-CLOSE TO YOU-1957(STEREO)-SECOND PRESS 1965 UK-CAPITOL -SREG1058. Close to You is the eleventh studio album by American musician Frank Sinatra accompanied by the Hollywood String Quartet. The album was recorded over eight months and five different sessions, arranged by Nelson Riddle.Nelson Riddle commented that the structure of popular songs did not lend itself to an arrangement in the style of a classical string quartet, and felt that he had not actually achieved what he had hoped for. However, when the album was released, it was highly praised by critics, and as Riddle remarked, "Sinatra loved it!". ...more

STATUS QUO-IN THE ARMY NOW-1986-THE FIRST EU/HOLLAND-VERTIGO PRESS-830049-1.A rare European original of the iconic album.  In the army now is the seventeenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo, released on August 29, 1986 on the Vertigo label. Recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Oxfordshire and Jacobs Studios in Surrey, it was the first album with a post-Live Aid lineup that included bassist Reno Edwards and drummer Jeff Rich, both joined in March 1986. The album has reached high places in the charts of many countries. Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)- 12th place, Dutch albums (Top 100 albums)- 50th place, French albums (SNEP) - 16th place, German albums (Offizielle Top 100) -14th place, Swiss albums (Schweizer Hitparade)- 1st place, UK Albums (OCC) - 7th place. ...more