Lot 87DONNA SUMMER - ONCE UPON A TIME.. (2LP)-1977-FIRST PRESS USA-CASABLANCA-NMINT/NMINT

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

ABBA-ABBA-1975-THE FIRST UK PRESS-EPIC-EPC80835. A rare British original. ABBA is the third studio album by the Swedish pop band ABBA, released in 1975. The song "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", which topped the charts in Australia, marking the beginning of "abbamania" on the Green Continent, "SOS" and "Mamma Mia", respectively, became No. 6 and No. 1 hits in the UK — a rare success for musicians at that time. from continental Europe. ...more

MILES DAVIS-FOUR AND MORE RECORDED LIVE IN CONCERT-1966-FIRST UK PRESS-CBS-SBPG62655 . A-3/B-1 matrices. A very rare British original of the iconic jazz album is a live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded at the Lincoln Center Philharmonic Hall on February 12, 1964 and released two years later. ...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

W.A.S.P.-HEADLESS CHILDREN-1989-THE FIRST PRESS OF EU-CAPITOL -064748942-1 A rare original of famous American heavy rockers.The sound of this album has significantly moved away from the shock rock of W.A.S.P.'s early works towards more classic melodic heavy metal. The lyrics have become more diverse. On the cover. On the cover of this record, political figures are depicted against the background of a giant skull: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Heinrich Himmler; criminals Al Capone and Charles Manson, as well as members of the Ku Klux Klan in their traditional garb. The Headless Children became one of W.A.S.P.'s most commercially successful albums and retains this status to this day. It is worth noting that KEN HENSLEY (URIAH HEEP) was invited as a keyboardist, who contributed to the creation of the album. ...more