Lot 91ABBA-ABBA-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-EPIC-NMINT/NMINT

HENSLEY, KEN (EX-URIAH HEEP) -EAGER TO PLEASE-1975-THE FIRST UK PRESS-BRONZE-ILPS9307. Matrices A-1/B-1 Rare British original of KEN HENSLEY's (URIAH HEEP) second solo album Eager To Please is the second solo album by Ken Hensley, known as the leader of the English rock band Uriah Heep, released in 1975 on Bronze Records and on Warner Bros. Records. Emboldened by the success of his debut solo album Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf (1973), Ken Hensley recorded his second solo work in 1975, calling it Eager To Please, which means "Trying to please" or "Striving to please." Everyone can judge how much Hensley tried to please the public. But based on the tastes of the average Uriah Heep fan, it's clear that Ken was expected to do something similar. ...more

GENESIS-WIND AND WUTHERING-1976-THE FIRST UK PRESS-CHARISMA - CDS4005. Matrixes A-2/B-3. A rare British original of the cult band.  Wind and Wuthering is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Genesis. It was released on December 17, 1976 on Charisma Records and is their last studio album featuring guitarist Steve Hackett. After the success of their 1976 tour in support of their previous album, A Trick of the Tail, the band moved to Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands to record their next album, their first recorded outside the UK. Writing and recording caused internal friction, as Hackett felt that some of his contributions had been rejected in favor of material by keyboardist Tony Banks. The album received a positive response from critics and boosted the band's popularity in the United States. It reached No. 7 in the UK and No. 26 in the US and sold steadily, eventually receiving Gold Certification from the British Phonographic Institute and the Recording Industry Association of America. The single "Your Own Special Way" became the band's first single on the US charts, peaking at 62nd place. ...more

SINATRA, FRANK - STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT-1966-SECOND PRESS (STEREO) USA-REPRISE- FS1017. Rare American original of the second edition of the cult album. At the 1967 Grammy Awards, Sinatra won two Grammy Awards for his efforts on this album, including Record of the Year for the title track, as well as Best Male Vocal Performance for the same song. (In the same year, he received another Grammy Award - "Album of the Year for a Man and his Music"). Ernie Freeman's arrangement of the title track earned him the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanied by a Vocalist or Instrumentalist. This is the last album Sinatra performed with longtime arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. "Strangers in the Night" went platinum for one million copies sold in the United States. ...more

DEEP PURPLE-BOOK OF TALIESYN -1968-ORIGINAL PRESS 1975 JAPAN-WARNER-P-8377W. The rare Japanese edition of the cult album The Book of Taliesyn is the second studio album by the British band Deep Purple. It was released in the USA in October 1968 on the Tetragrammaton Records label, and in the UK in June 1969 on the EMI label. The musical style of The Book of Taliesyn is a mix of progressive rock, psychedelic rock and hard rock.[1][16][17][18][19]. Many reviewers believe that on this album the band demonstrated greater maturity and complexity of musical compositions than on the previous one. The album received a good rating in the USA, but like the previous one, it went completely unnoticed in the musicians' homeland, in the UK. Five of the seven tracks were placed on the Billboard Hot100 in the middle of the hundred. ...more

ALEXEY RYBNIKOV-ROCK OPERA JUNO AND AVOS-1980-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-MELODIA-C60-18627. "Juno and Avos" is a rock opera by Alexey Rybnikov (music) and Andrey Voznesensky (libretto). The premiere, directed by Mark Zakharov, took place on July 9, 1981 on the stage of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater, where the performance, which has become a kind of business card of Lenkom, took place In parallel with the work on the performance, an audio version of the opera with other performers was recorded in Lenkom in 1980. The first public listening of the recorded work took place on December 9, 1980 in the Church of the Intercession in Fily (Moscow). However, due to censorship obstacles, the album of two stereo records was released by the company" Melody " only in 1982 (number C60 18627-30 (2LP)).  ...more