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SINATRA, FRANK -LONDON BY NIGHT -1962-THE SECOND PRESS (MONO) UK-CAPITOL-T-20389.  A rare British original of a cult album. The Frank Sinatra Album is a 1962 studio album released upon Sinatra's arrival in Britain.  On May 30, 1962, Frank Sinatra's private plane, the Christina, landed at London Heathrow Airport. It was the first time that the singer appeared in the capital of Great Britain since 1953. On June 1, Sinatra was scheduled to perform a charity concert at midnight at the Royal Festival Hall in London in front of an audience that included many British celebrities and dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret. The press fueled the excitement, tickets quickly sold out, and Sinatra's concert became the most anticipated event of the year in the city. ...more

GEORDIE-NO GOOD WOMAN-1978-THE FIRST PRESS OF FRANCE-RED BUS-2S068.60773.  A very rare European original of a hard rock style icon in top condition. No Good Woman is the fourth studio album by the British glam rock band Geordie. It includes tracks recorded by previous line-ups, as well as several new tracks. This is the band's last album with original vocalist Brian Johnson, who left the band to join AC/DC in 1980. ...more

WILLY TOKAREV - GOLD-1983-ORIGINAL PRESS 2015 -EU-MIRUMIR-MIR100470. A rare anniversary edition of the iconic album. "Gold" is the fourth 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, headed by 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 organizing 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

STEELY DAN-CAN'T BUY A THRILL -1972- SECOND PRESS 1974 UK-ABC-ABCL5024 Matrix A-1U/B-1. Rare British early edition of the cult album.  Can't Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972 on ABC Records. It was written by band members Walter Becker and Donald Feigen and recorded in August 1972 at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz. This album is one of the most stylistically eclectic in Steely Dan's work, combining the sounds of soft rock, pop rock and jazz rock, as well as philosophical, mysterious lyrics. The commercially successful album Can't Buy a Thrill reached 17th place on the US Billboard Top LPs chart.  Tape, which was promoted by the popular singles Do It Again and Reelin' In the Years, and eventually received a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It also received positive reviews and was included in many retrospective lists of "greatest albums", including Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list (2003). ...more

CLAPTON, ERIC-461 OCEAN BOULEVARD-1974-FIRST UK PRESS-RSO 2479-118 One of the most famous, critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums. It took place in 409 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time by the magazine Rolling Stone. Rare  ...more