Lot 17MC5-HIGH TIME-1971-FIRST PRESS USA-ATLANTIC-NMINT/NMINT

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD-GRAND FUNK-1969-THE SECOND PRESS OF USA -SKAO-406 is a very rare second press of the cult album.  Grand Funk (also known as The Red Album) is the second studio album by American rock band Grand Funk Railroad, released in December 1969 on Capitol Records four months after their debut On Time. The producer was Terry Knight and the sound engineer was Ken Hamann. It became the band's first album to be awarded gold status by the RIAA. It included a cover of The Animals' song "Inside Looking Out", which is performed at the band's concerts to this day. ...more

PINK FLOYD-ANIMALS-1977-THE FIRST UK-HARVEST PRESS - SHVL815 matrix A-2U/B-2U. A very rare original with the first matrices. Animals is the tenth studio album by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on January 23, 1977. Recorded at Britannia Row Studios (London). It reached number two in the UK charts and number three in the USA. The album was originally released in the United Kingdom on January 23, 1977 on Harvest Records, then on Columbia Records in the United States on February 2, 1977.The album is ranked 14th on PopMatters' list of the "25 Best Classic Progressive Rock Albums". ...more

ROLLING STONES-ROLLING STONES (MONO)-1964-THE FIRST UK PRESS-DECCA-LK4605.  Matrices A-2A/B-5A. 1I/1DM Stamper (Very early!) A very rare original of the first RS album. The Rolling Stones is the debut studio album by the British rock band The Rolling Stones. The album held the first position in the UK Albums Chart from May 2 to July 25, 1964 and in the Australian Kent Music Report from January 16 to February 5, 1965. However, the album reached only the 11th position on the US Billboard 200. ...more

CHUCK BERRY -ON STAGE-1963-THE FIRST UK-PYE-NPL28027 Matrix A-1P/B-1P PRESS.  A very rare British original of the iconic album. Chuck Berry on Stage is Chuck Berry's first live album, [a] released in 1963 by Chess Records. Despite being positioned as a live album, it is a collection of previously released studio recordings (with the exception of "All Aboard", "Trick or Treat", "I Just Want To Make Love To You", "Still Got The Blues" and a previously unreleased alternative version of "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man") with superimposed audience sounds to simulate a concert recording. One of the album's tracks, titled "Surfin' USA", is "Sweet Little Sixteen", originally released in 1958, the melody of which was used in The Beach Boys' 1963 hit "Surfin' USA". A cover version of "I Just Want To Make Love To You" by Willie Dixon performed by Chuck. ...more

GROUNDHOGS-BLACK DIAMOND-1976-FIRST PRESS UK-UA-UAS29994. Matrix A-1U/B-1U is a very rare British original of the cult prog blues band.Black Diamond is the ninth studio album by the British rock band The Groundhogs. Recorded in July-August 1976 at T.S. Studios in Haverhill, England, it was released in the fall by United Artists. This album differs from its predecessors with a much richer sound and a finely honed technique of execution. Tony McPhee tried to make the music of the album even more uncompromising, which he wanted to emphasize with a tougher sound of guitars and amplification of keyboards (synthesizers), which, of course, he played himself. A very big influence on him during this period was exerted by "King Crimson", who later, in turn, themselves learned a lot from the album "Black Diamond", when they were once again revived at the turn of the millennium. Nevertheless, the departure from a purely bluesy sound was not very liked by the fans of "The Groundhogs", which did not slow down to affect the contract with the record company. Black Diamond is the last studio album of the "Golden Age" of the band, after which the band ceased to exist and was revived with a new line-up only in 1985 (the year of the release of the new album). ...more