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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

PLANT, ROBERT-PRINCIPLE OF MOMENTS-1983-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY-ATLANTIC- 7-0101-1 Rare only edition in Europe. Principle of Moments album of lead singer of Led Zeppelin. The disc entered the Top 10 in the US and the UK. The album includes his first solo hit the Plant in the Top 40 -"Big Log". The most popular track on AOR radio in the US was "Other Arms", which reached the first position in the Top Tracks chart of Billboard magazine. Genesis drummer Phil Collins played in six of the eight songs of the album. In the other two tracks played by the former Jethro Tull drummer Barrie Barlow. ...more

KINKS- KONTROVERSY-1965-THE FIRST PRESS (STEREO)UK-PYE-NSPL18131359 Matrix A-2/B-2 . A very rare original of the iconic album  The Kink Kontroversy is the third studio album by English rock band The Kinks. It was released in the United Kingdom on November 26, 1965 by Pye Records. Released in the United States on March 30, 1966 by Reprise Records, it became The Kinks' first American album with the same track list as its British counterpart. This is a transitional album containing elements of both earlier Kinks styles (songs with strong blues influences such as "Milk Cow Blues" and variations on the themes of the band's hits from 1964 to 1965 based on power chords such as "Until the End of the Day") and early indications of the future direction of Ray Davis' songwriting styles ("The World Keeps Going Round" and "I'm on an Island"). The title notes were written by Michael Aldred. The single "Till the End of the Day" became a real hit, peaking at number 8 in the UK and number 50 in the US, staying on each chart for eight weeks or more. ...more

SILVERHEAD-SAME-1973-THE FIRST UK-PURPLE-TPSA7506 PRESS. Matrices A-1U/B-1U. Stamper 1G./1G (A Dream!)  A rare British original. Silverhead is a British glam rock band founded in early 1972, led by singer and actor Michael Des Barres. The other band members were: Robbie Blunt (guitar), Rod Rook Davis (guitar, percussion, vocals), Nigel Harrison (bass guitar) and Pete Thompson (drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals). They signed with Deep Purple's Purple Records label and recorded two studio albums, Silverhead (1972) and 16 and Savaged (1973), and were part of the 1970s glam rock music scene. In the UK, they have opened for bands such as Nazareth at Finsbury Park and Osibisa at Brixton Sandown, and have also headlined at Dagenham Roundhouse. Work on the third studio album (working title "Brutiful") began in 1974, but the band broke up in July 1974 before it was finished. ...more

BEACH BOYS - BEST OF-1966-THE FIRST UK-CAPITOL-ST20856 Matrix A-1G/B-1G PRESS.  A very rare British original of the iconic album. Best of the Beach Boys is the first compilation album released by the American rock band The Beach Boys on the Capitol Records label in 1966. The first version was released in the United States on July 5, 1966, two months after Pet Sounds. Another version of Best of The Beach Boys was released in the UK on November 11, 1966 with a different track listing. Best of The Beach Boys includes a selection of 12 songs in Britain, 14 recorded by the band from 1962 to 1965, many of which were singles or B-sides. The album reached number eight on the US charts and was certified gold by the RIAA on April 12, 1967, and double platinum on December 1, 1991. ...more