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SIMON, PAUL -GRACELAND-1986-FIRST PRESS (PROMO) JAPAN-WARNER-P-13311. Rare Japanese original of the cult album. Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by American singer—songwriter Paul Simon. It was produced by Simon, mixed by Roy Haley, and released on August 25, 1986, by Warner Bros. Records. It includes genres such as pop, rock, a cappella, zydeco, and South African styles such as Isichatamiya and mbakanga. "Graceland" became Simon's most successful studio album and his most popular album in over a decade. It is estimated to have sold over 16 million copies worldwide. It received acclaim, won the 1987 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and is often cited as one of the best albums in history. In 2006, it was listed on the U.S. National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." ...more

AMII STEWART- KNOCK ON WOOD- 1979-THE FIRST USA PRESS- ARIOLA-SW-50054. A rare original from a famous disco band. Knock on Wood is a studio album by Amy Stewart, released in February 1979. The album contained two successful singles: "Knock on Wood" (#1 in the US in the pop genre, #6 in the US in the RB genre, #5 in the US in the club music genre, #6 in the UK, #13 in Germany) and "Light My Fire / 137 Disco Heaven" (#69 in the US in the pop genre, #36 in the US in the RB genre, #5 in the UK, #26 in Germany). In 1985, a double single with remixed versions of "Knock on Wood" and "Light My Fire" reached number 7 in the UK charts, followed by the re-release of "You Really Touched My Heart" (number 89 in the UK). ...more

ROBERT PLANT / JIMMY PAGE-NO QUARTER (2LP'S+PROMO PHOTO TOUR)-1994-FIRST PRESS USA-ATLANTIC 82706-1.  A mega rare original by two musicians from LED ZEPPELIN. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, who became famous as members of the English rock band Led Zeppelin, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s as Page and Plant. Together with session musicians, they gave several concerts in 1994, the recordings of which made up their first album in a new capacity, "No Quarter", which was a significant success, after which they went on a world tour. They then recorded their second album, Walking into Clarksdale, and played another world tour, before disbanding the project at the end of 1998. The album NO QUARTER went double platinum in the USA and the UK.  ...more

SPACE-DELIVERANCE-1977-THE FIRST PRESS OF GERMANY-HANSA-25797 OT. A rare German original . Deliverance is the second studio album by the band Space, released in 1977.The CD was recorded at Sydney Bechett Studio in 1977. Ray Cooper, Elton John's drummer, took part in the recording. The song "Deliverance" was recorded at the Abbey Road Studio. In addition to Madeline Bell, it was performed by Jan Lozette (at the 1983 concert) and Eric Bami (2002 concert). Deliverance is designed in the styles of spacesynth, disco, synthpop. Starting with this album, "the disco component of the band's music gradually began to prevail over the electronic" ...more

ARABESQUE-ARABESQUE-1978-THE FIRST SCANDINAVIA-TALENT-TLS3051 PRESS.  A very rare Scandinavian original of the first album of disco giants. Arabesque I (Friday Night) is the debut studio album by the West German disco band Arabesque. It was released in 1978 on EMI Electrola in Germany and on Victor Record in Japan. The Arabesque disco group was founded in 1977 (registered in the German city of Offenbach in a recording studio owned by legendary producer Frank Farian). At that time, there was a fashion in Europe for "girl groups” in which female vocals were dominant: Baccara, ABBA, Boney M. The debut album of the Arabesque trio was recorded with the following line-up: Karen Ann Tepperis, Michaela Rose and Mary Ann Nagel. After recording the first record, Tepperis and Nagel left the band, and Jasmin Vetter and Heike Rimbeau became new members of the trio. In 1979, Arabesque joined the seventeen-year-old and still unknown Sandra Lauer, who replaced vocalist Heike Rimbeau. Sandra immediately became an informal leader in the band - in the vast majority of songs, the main vocals belonged to her. Arabesque were very popular in Japan; in Europe, however, until the release of "Marigot Bay" in 1980, the band could not boast of "frenzied" success. After that, they gained real popularity, but they never rose to the "Japanese" level. I must say that the girls from the group complemented each other surprisingly precisely: they seemed to represent "three elements", three different types - dark-skinned Southerner Michaela, blonde Northerner Jasmine and, finally, Sandra with her "Japanese" cut of the eyes.In 1984, Sandra's five-year contract to work at Arabesque expired. She, with the support of her future husband Michael Cretu, decides to start a solo career, and the band, which rose due to Sandra's talent, ceases to exist. In the same year, the band's last album "Time To Say Good Bye" was released. Michaela Rose and Jasmine Vetter, trying not to miss their chance, create a new band called Rouge, but it was not successful. Rouge disbanded in 1988. Popularity in the USSR. Despite the lack of popularization of disco in the Soviet media, it had a lot of fans in the USSR. Arabesque were one of the favorite bands in Soviet discos. The popularity of the band was so great that in 1984 the Melodiya company released a record with ten songs from different albums. The record quickly became, as they said at the time, "scarce", and it could only be bought with a huge overpayment. Most of the band's songs were distributed across the country in tape recordings. In 1989, in the wake of Perestroika, Sandra was invited to Moscow, where she was greeted by a full house of enthusiastic fans. Arabesque songs are still often heard on Russian radio in retro programs dedicated to the 1980s. ...more