Lot 32COLOSSEUM-VALENTYNE SUITE-1969-FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO-NMINT/NMINT

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND-THE ROARING SILENCE-1976-SECOND PRESS 1978 JAPAN-BRONZE-WBS-71020 . A rare Japanese edition of the iconic album. The Roaring Silence is the seventh studio album by the rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on August 27, 1976 by Bronze Records in the United Kingdom and Warner Bros. Records" in the USA. The album rose to #10 on the Billboard 200 and is the most commercially successful album of the band's existence. ...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

BEATLES-RUBBER SOUL (STEREO)-1965-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 JAPAN-APPLE-AP8156. A very rare Japanese early edition in a complete package. Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by The Beatles, released on December 3, 1965. The album was recorded in just four weeks, and the rush was driven by the desire to release the album in time for the Christmas holidays. According to many musicologists, it was with the Rubber Soul album that fundamental changes began in the band's work, which led to the development of many unusual sub-trends in rock music.  ...more

ROBERT CALVERT - CAPTAIN LOCKHEED AND THE STARFIGHTERS -1974- FIRST PRESS RELEASE UK-UNITED ARTISTS- UAG29507. A-1U/B-1U matrices. A rare British original of a cult album. The first solo album by Robert Calvert, an eccentric character who was still a full-time Hawkwind poet at that time and had not yet managed to become their full-time frontman. This is a very peculiar story album - the real story of the American Lockheed F-104 Starfighter fighter, which in the 60s was, it turns out, purchased by the West German Air Force in terrible quantities with such modifications that made the aircraft terribly emergency, as a result of which it earned the nickname "Widowmaker". Calvert is drawn here on two counts at once: firstly, he expresses his love and knowledge of military history; secondly, he demonstrates colorful sarcasm and a sense of humor. His targets, of course, are German generals (banter against Germans, as you know, is a traditional genre of British humor). The album actually resembles a radio play, in which song numbers alternate with comic skits brilliantly played by characters such as Vivian Stanshall from Bonzo Dog Band and, of course, Calvert himself. For music lovers, it is valuable here that Calvert was supported by almost the entire Hawkwind line-up at that time. ...more

URIAH HEEP-BEST OF-1975-THE FIRST UK PRESS-BRONZE-ILPS9375. Matrixes A-2/B-2 is a very rare British original of the cult collection of the best tracks. The Best of Uriah Heep (also known as The Best of...) is the title of the most successful compilation album by the British rock band Uriah Heep. It was released by Bronze Records and Mercury Records in three different editions with approximately the same set of songs, but with different covers and track listings. The first edition was released in 1974 in Canada, the second in 1975 in Europe, and the third the following year in the United States. In some European editions, the song "Lady in Black" was replaced by "Suicidal Man". The collection went gold in Germany. ...more