Lot 20ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-OUT OF THE BLUE (VERSION -TOUR OBI)-1977-FIRST PRESS JAPAN-JET-NMINT/NMINT

ENIGMA-MCMXC a.D.-1990-THE FIRST UK/EU GERMANY-VIRGIN PRESS number 211-209. A mega rare original of the iconic album. MCMXC a.D. is the debut and most popular album of the Enigma project, released in 1990. Reaching the No. 1 position in 41 countries, it garnered 57 platinum awards, including triple platinum in the United States, where it remained on the Billboard 200 album chart for five years. ...more

STEVE VAI- PASSION AND WARFARE - 1990- FIRST PRESS UK-FFT- GRUB17. A rare British original. Passion and Warfare is the second studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released on May 22, 1990 on Relativity and Epic Records. He received a gold certificate from the RIAA. Passion and Warfare was written based on a series of episodes of dreams that Vai had when he was younger, and in the album's guitar notes book Vai summarizes it this way: "Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur arranged for Mel Blanc." It was all recorded at Mothership Studios in his Hollywood Hills home, a 1,600-square-foot (150 m2) building that also recorded his guitar parts for Whitesnake's 1989 album Slip of the Tongue. Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale has small spoken parts on the album; Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg and Rudy Sarzo are credited with backing vocals. Vai claims that planning for the album began back in 1982, but was postponed after joining David Lee Roth's band and was not resumed until the breakup with Roth in 1989. ...more

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH MAND-NIGHTINGALES AND BOMBERS-1975-THE FIRST PRESS (CONTRACT) UK-BRONZE- ILPS 9337. A-3/B-3 matrices, A rare British original from the CBS contract factory. The pinnacle of the band's creativity. Nightingales AND Bombers is the sixth studio album by British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on August 22, 1975 on the Bronze Records label. The CD rose to #120 on the Billboard 200 of all rock albums.      ...more

REA, CHRIS-NEW LIGHT THROUGH OLD WINDOWS...-1989-THE FIRST PRESS OF USA-GEFFEN-GHS24232. A rare American original compilation of the best tracks over a 10-year period.  The first compilation album by British singer and songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1988. The album consists mainly of re-recorded songs from Ri's previous albums, as well as the new track "Working on It", which reached number 73 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and became Ri's only hit to reach number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song "On the Beach" reached number 9 on the US Adult Contemporary Singles Chart and number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. The album reached number five on the UK Albums Chart, staying there for over a year, and was triple platinum by the BPI until 1992. He entered the top 10 in New Zealand, Australia and West Germany. ...more

CERRONE-GOLDEN TOUCH-1978-THE FIRST USA-COTILLION-SD5208 press. A rare American original of a cult album. Cerrone IV - The Golden Touch is the fourth studio album by French disco musician and producer Jean-Marc Cerrone, released in 1978 on Malligator (773,807) in France, on Atlantic branch Cotillion (SD 5208) in the USA, on CBS - in European countries. Having gained the huge popularity of his previous album, Supernatural - Cerrone III (1977), Cerrone decided to consolidate his success by signing important contracts. First of all, he signed an agreement with the Machat brothers: producer Steven Machat and show business lawyer Martin Machat. They became Cerron's managers in order to promote it internationally. Steven Machat signed Cerron to Atlantic Records in the USA and Canada, and to CBS everywhere except the USA, Canada and France. In France, he was given the right to publish on his own Malligator label. While waiting for the fourth album, Cerrone's fans were wondering where it would turn. Will this project be as conceptual and ambitious as the previous Supernatural, or will Cerrone return to the lingering, pleasant to forget and party style of the first albums Love in C Minor (1976) and Cerrone's Paradise (1977)? Making something amazing again after Supernature was, of course, not an easy task. Cerrone didn't repeat himself, but he made the fourth album no worse than the third. Cerrone IV: The Golden Touch was met with rave reviews in the United States, and Atlantic threw a huge party in New York in October 1978, one of the largest parties ever held for artists at that time. The album's envelope was decorated with appropriate pomp, where Cerron is represented in a laurel crown, and the Roman numeral in the title emphasizes his "crowned" status in disco culture. The Golden Touch in the title - The Golden Touch - proudly emphasizes the gold-bearing nature of Cerron's albums, which bring him "golden" discs, one after another. ...more