Lot 96SPACE-MAGIC FLY-1977-FIRST PRESS USA-UA-NMINT/NMINT

STREISAND, BARBRA - GUILTY-1980-THE FIRST JAPAN PRESS- CBS-25AP1930. A rare Japanese original by a 60s pop diva. Guilty is the twenty—second studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on September 23, 1980 on Columbia Records. The album was produced by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and his permanent team Alby Galuten and Carl Richardson. The album received positive reviews from music critics. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote that this album is one of the singer's "least distinctive" albums and that "it sounds like a Bee Gees album after Streisand's 'Saturday Night Fever.'"  ...more

MCCARTNEY, PAUL-TUG OF WAR-1982-THE FIRST JAPAN PRESS-ODEON-EPS-81485. A rare Japanese original of a cult album.  Tug of War is the third solo studio album by English musician Paul McCartney, released on April 26, 1982. This is his 11th album since the breakup of The Beatles in 1970, his first album released since the breakup of his band Wings last year, and his first album since the assassination of his former collaborator John Lennon.  Rolling Stone music critic Stephen Holden called Tug of War "a masterpiece that everyone always knew Paul McCartney could create," and particularly admired his vibrant music and consistent songwriting. The album restored McCartney's reputation in the eyes of critics after what was considered a difficult period for him. Tug of War was nominated for the Grammy Album of the Year Award in 1983. ...more

LED ZEPPELIN-SAME-1969-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-ATLANTIC-SD8216 One of the icons in rock music, a mega rare German original with the matrix ST-A-681461-A-AT / ST-A-681462-A-AT. Led Zeppelin is the debut studio album by the British rock band Led Zeppelin, Recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released by Atlantic Records on January 12, 1969. Initially, the album garnered mostly negative press reviews, but was a great commercial success and was subsequently highly praised by rock critics. Album release date, January 12, 1969, Kerrang magazine! In a special issue, I celebrated it as the birthday of heavy metal In total, the band spent 1,782 pounds on recording the album, and collected about 3.5 million pounds in 1969-70, thereby exceeding the amount paid by 2,000 times. The album also kept up with the charts, placing from 1st to 20th place in different countries. In Britain, he reached a maximum of 6th place in two years.  ...more

WHAM (GEORGE MICHAEL AND ANDREW RIDGELEY) - MAKE IT BIG-1984-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-HOLLAND -EPIC-EPC86311. Make It Big is the second studio album by English pop duo Wham!, released in 1984. Compared to their previous works, Wham! (George Michael and Andrew Ridgely) were given more control over the production of the album, and Michael was also listed as a producer. The album was a commercial success, reaching number one on the US and UK charts and spawning four singles that reached the top three in the US and UK. Make It Big became a 4x platinum album in the USA at the time of its release and has since become a 6x platinum album in the USA ...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