Lot 4JULIE LONDON - BEST OF JULIE-1962-FIRST PRESS UK-LIBERTY-NMINT/NMINT

URIAH HEEP-...VERY 'EAVY VERY 'UMBLE-1970-THE FIRST PRESS OF GERMANY- VERTIGO SWIRL-6360006. A very rare German original of the cult album. The album was released in June 1970 by Vertigo Records in the UK. The original vinyl release was a spread-out envelope with frontman David Byron depicted on the front sleeve, almost unrecognizable under the cobwebs. It was released in August 1970 by Mercury Records in the United States under the name just Uriah Heep with a different cover design (a centipede-type monster) and with the track "Bird of Prey" instead of "Lucy Blues". The album was re-released by Bronze Records in 1971 after the band signed a contract with that label. The album shows how the band tries different genres – a mix of heavy metal and progressive rock, rather than hard rock, which they became known for on later albums. Tracks 3 and 8 were recorded as Spice songs before the band's renaming to Uriah Heep, and featured session musician Colin Wood on keyboards. When Ken Hensley joined Spice in early 1970, the tracks were not re-recorded. ...more

PINK FLOYD-ANIMALS-1977-THE FIRST PRESS UK-HARVEST - SHVL815 matrix A-2U/B-3U. A very rare British original. Animals is the tenth studio album by 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 UK on January 23, 1977 on Harvest Records, then on Columbia Records in the USA on February 2, 1977.The album is ranked 14th on PopMatters' list of the "25 Best Classic Progressive Rock Albums." ...more

URIAH HEEP-FIREFLY-1977-THE FIRST JAPAN-BRONZE P-10312B PRESS. A very rare Japanese original of a cult album. Firefly is the 10th studio album by the British rock band Uriah Heep, released in February 1977 on Bronze Records in the UK and Warner Bros. Records in the USA. It was the band's first album without David Byron, the former lead vocalist and also one of the band's founding members, replaced by John Lawton. Bassist Trevor Boulder made his debut with Uriah Heep on this album and, apart from an 18-month hiatus in the early 1980s, he was a member of this band until his death in 2013. The album was successful and placed in the top 20 charts in Europe. It ranks 166th in the Billboard 200 rock Albums of All Time. ...more

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

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - SAME-1971-The first press UK-HARVEST-SHVL797 matrix A-1U/B-1U Stamper 1RG/2RL (Very early!!!) The first album of the famous band, a rare British original. The Electric Light Orchestra is the debut studio album by the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in December 1971 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records. In the United States, the album was released in March 1972 under the title "No Answer" after a United Artists Records employee misunderstood a phone call and asked for the album's name; the caller, unable to contact ELO, wrote "no answer" in his notes, and this was misinterpreted as the album's title. The album is dedicated to the main trio of Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan, who were the remaining members of the rock band The Move. The Move continued to release singles in the UK at the same time that the project was launched, but interest in Wood's former band soon waned. In fact, The Move's latest album, Message from the Country, was recorded simultaneously with The Electric Light Orchestra. ...more