Lot 11CLIFF RICHARD - 21 TODAY -1961-FIRST PRESS (MONO) UK-COLUMBIA-NMINT/NMINT

DYLAN, BOB-DESIRE-1976-FIRST UK PRESS-CBS-S86003. Rare British original in top condition. Desire is the seventeenth Studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Released in January 1976 on Columbia Records. The most famous was opening the album is the song "Hurricane". It is a protest against the conviction of the boxer Rubin Carter, nicknamed "Hurricane", accused in the triple murder. The album received good grades and was on the first position on the Billboard Pop Albums chart for five weeks, becoming one of the biggest albums of Dylan (and having the status of double platinum) and rose to third position in the UK. The album entered first position in the list of albums of the year magazine New Musical Express. ...more

WILLY TOKAREV - OVER THE HUDSON-1983-ORIGINAL PRESS 2015 -EU-MIRUMIR-MIR100469. A rare anniversary edition of the iconic album. "Over the Hudson" is the third studio album by Soviet, American and Russian author-performer Willy Tokarev, released in 1983 on the Sava Recording Corporation label in the USA. The producer is Willy Tokarev. At the age of 40, in 1974, Willy Tokarev emigrated to the United States with $100 in his pocket. He was sheltered for 2-3 weeks by the Tolstoy Foundation, whose head was Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter of Leo Tolstoy. There he was a courier, a cleaner in a bakery, sorted through the Russian library of a millionaire, a newspaper deliveryman, became unemployed because he did not know English well, so he began to learn the language by reading American newspapers, graduated from a nurse's course, learned to drive a car, passed a taxi driving test and began working as a taxi driver to earn money for recording records, writing songs in his spare time, he was robbed four times (once, on Christmas Day, he was almost killed by a black man). He played at Carnegie Hall on a balalaika, which he bought at a souvenir shop on Fifth Avenue for $ 50, then played and sang in restaurants and nightclubs.  In 1979, the first record "And life is always beautiful!" was released, which was not particularly noticed. In 1981, the second album "In a noisy booth" was released, which brought Tokarev fame among Russian-speaking emigrants. In the 1980s, he worked at the Russian restaurant Sadko, and then at the restaurants Primorsky and Odessa, accompanied by Irina Ola. He was called the "honorary Jew of Brighton." Willy founded his own label, One Man Band, and recorded about twenty albums there.In 1989, Willy Tokarev flew to the USSR with concerts. A major role in the organization of these tours was played by the famous entrepreneur Viktor Shulman, who himself also performed "Odessa songs" from the repertoire of Leningrad "tape recorder" bards, Boris Sichkin and other veterans of the genre. 70 concerts throughout the Soviet Union were a success. ...more

CLIFF RICHARD AND SHADOWS - SUMMER HOLIDAY -1963-FIRST PRESS (MONO) UK-COLUMBIA-33SX1472.  A rare British original rock beat band. Summer Vacation is an album of soundtracks by Cliff Richard and The Shadows for the film of the same name. This is their second soundtrack album for the film and Richard's eighth album overall. The album topped the UK Albums chart for 14 weeks. Three singles were released from the album. Before the album's release, the songs "The Next Time" and "Bachelor Boy" (on side A and side B respectively) were already hits. It was followed by "Summer Holiday" and finally "Foot Tapper" (performed by The Shadows). All three singles topped the UK singles chart. ...more

VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY -HUNTING WOLVES (2LP'S)-1990-FIRST PRESS USSR-MDSU-17-201090. Hunting Wolves is a collection of songs by Vladimir Vysotsky, released in 1990. The collection includes such songs as "Black Peacoats", "The High Jumper's Song", "The Song of Little Cassandra", "Hunting Wolves" and others. The edition is on double black vinyl in a double-sided laminated envelope. The rotation speed is 45 RPM. The labels are red. Vladimir Vysotsky is a Soviet poet, author and performer of songs, theater and film actor. Laureate of the USSR State Prize ("for creating the image of Zheglov in the television feature film "The Meeting Place cannot be changed" and the author's performance of songs", 1987, posthumously). ...more

OLDFIELD, MIKE-TUBULAR BELLS-1973-THE FIRST UK-VIRGIN PRESS-V2001. A-2U/B-3U matrices. A very rare British original of a cult album. Tubular Bells is the debut studio album by English musician Mike Oldfield, recorded by him at the age of 19 and released in 1973 by the British label Virgin Records. The album was a huge success and sold millions of copies, thereby laying the foundation for the further development of Virgin Records. ...more