Lot 22T.REX-GREATEST HITS (+BIG POSTER)-1972-FIRST PRESS UK-EMI-NMINT/NMINT

QUEEN-A NIGHT AT THE OPERA-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-EMI - EMTC103.Matrices A-4/B-4. 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 — "A 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

BEATLES-HEY JUDE-1970- FIRST PRESS GERMANY - UK-APPLE-1C062-04348. Hey Jude or The Beatles Again is a compilation album by The Beatles, released in 1970 in the USA. The collection includes singles previously unreleased on albums; the B-sides of singles; as well as the songs "I Should Have Known Better" and "Can't Buy Me Love", previously released as singles by Capitol Records. The album rose to number two on the Billboard 200 chart. ...more

SMOKIE-CHANGING ALL THE TIME-1975-THE FIRST UK-RAK PRESS number SRAK517. A-1/B-1 matrices. A very rare British original of the legendary band. On this day in 1975, the band Smokie releases their second album, called ‘Changing All The Time'. This album is a testament to the changes. After its release, the band had to slightly change the spelling of its name to avoid being nagged by lawyers for American soul singer Smokey Robinson. However, only the last two letters have changed. But the Smokie sound has undergone significant changes. The band's curators, hit makers, Chinn and Chapman tried to give it more softness with echoes of country rock, which was supposed to turn Smokie into the British answer to the Eagles. And they succeeded. The album entered the top ten of all European charts. ...more

ARMY OF LOVERS-MASSIVE LUXURY OVERDOSE-1991-SWEDEN'S FIRST PRESS-TON SON TON-ARMYLP-2. A very rare original of the cult album of the pop disc Swedish band. Massive Luxury Overdose is the second studio album by the Swedish pop band Army of Lovers, released in 1991, Massive Luxury Overdose includes a number of the band's most famous songs, including Obsession and Crucified, which became a No. 1 hit on the charts of Finland, Belgium and 11 other countries[1]. The album also includes a new version of the song Ride The Bullet, which had previously been released on the 1990 album Disco Extravaganza. In March 1992, the first Army Of Lovers tour took place. The tour began in Sweden, and subsequently covered a number of European countries. By that time, more than 500,000 copies had already been sold worldwide, and the final circulation of the album was at least 2 million copies; of these, about 70 thousand were sold in Sweden. ...more

BYRDS- TURN! TURN! TURN!-1966-THE FIRST UK PRESS-CBS-SBPG62652 Rare original of the cult album.  TURN! TURN! TURN! is the second studio album by the American rock band the Byrds, released on December 6, 1965 on Columbia Records. Like its predecessor, Mr. Tambourine Man, the album continued the band's successful combination of vocal harmony and rattling twelve-string guitar. The album reached number 17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and climbed to number 11 in the United Kingdom. "Turn! Turn around! Turn Around!" the single beat the album by two months and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Another single from the album, "Set You Free This Time", was less successful and did not reach the top 50 in the United States. In Turn! Turn! Turn! McGinn's songwriting contributions increased, and rhythm guitarist David Crosby first gained recognition as a songwriter on The Byrds album, but most of the original material was still written by prolific songwriter Gene Clark. The album included two Bob Dylan cover versions.: "Times are Changing" and the unreleased song "Lay down your Tired Melody" at that time.  This was the last Byrds album to feature Gene Clark in its entirety, before the release of the reunited original 1973 Byrds quintet album. ...more