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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

ABBA-WATERLOO-1974-THE FIRST DANMARK-POLAR- POLS252 PRESS. A rare Danish original album, after which ABBA became famous all over the world. ...more

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD-SURVIVAL(+3 PHOTO)-1971-THE FIRST USA-CAPITOL-SW-764 PRESS. Los Angeles pressing, matrix f3/f3 Very Rare Original Complete Set (3 photo cards) Survival is the fourth studio album by Grand Funk Railroad, released by Capitol Records in April 1971. In North America, the album was popular and placed in the top ten. ...more

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER- CATS (2LP'S)-1981-THE FIRST UK PRESS-POLYDOR-CATX001. A very rare British original of a cult rock opera. "Cats" is a musical musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on T. S. Eliot's 1939 collection of poems, The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellykles and the night they make the "Jellykles choice", deciding which cat will rise to the Heaviside layer and return to a new life. As of 2024, "Cats" remains the fifth longest-running Broadway show and the eighth longest-running show in the West End. Lloyd Webber began writing music based on Eliot's poems in 1977, and in 1980 these compositions were first presented as a song cycle. Then producer Cameron Mackintosh invited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynn to turn the songs into a full-fledged musical. "Cats" received positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981, followed by mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982. They have won numerous awards, including the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Musical. Despite the unusual idea, which initially scared off investors, the musical was an unprecedented commercial success: by 2012, its box office worldwide totaled 3.5 billion US dollars. ...more

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