Lot 70GEORDIE-NO GOOD WOMAN-1978-FIRST PRESS FRANCE-RED BUS-NMINT/NMINT

ALICE - THE BLOCK OF HELL -1987-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6028425006. A rare original of a cult album. "Block of Hell" (also "Blockade") is the second studio album by the rock band Alice. It was recorded in 1987. The recording took place in the mobile studio "Tonwagen" (Melodiya company) for three days in May 1987 in the village of Shushary near Leningrad. Two sides of the album were named "Red" and "Black". "Block of Hell" was released as a magnetoalbum in 1987, and two years later it was released on vinyl simultaneously with the album "The Sixth Forester". According to official data, the circulation of the records exceeded 1,000,000 copies, which corresponds to platinum status in the USA. According to Konstantin Kinchev, the album's name has a double meaning and can be written in one or two words, since there is no established version. ...more

DONNA SUMMER - ONCE UPON A TIME.. (2LP)-1977-THE FIRST PRESS USA-CASABLANCA-NBLP7078CALD5003-1. A rare American original by the queen of soul disco. Once Upon a Time is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer. It was released on October 31, 1977 and reached number 26 on the US Billboard 200 chart, number thirteen on the Top R/B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart and number 24 on the UK Albums Chart. Placed at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart. Once Upon a Time includes the singles "I Love You", "Fairy Tale High", "Once Upon a Time" and "Rumour Has It". ...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

DEF LEPPARD-HYSTERIA-1987-FIRST PRESS EU-HOLLAND-MERCURY-830675-1. Rare original European released for all of Europe. Hysteria (Rus. "Hysteria") is the fourth Studio album by the band Def Leppard, released in 1987. Made available in both formats, LP and CD. Today it is the most popular album reached the charts Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, released 6 singles became hits and sold 20 million copies. Hysteria is on the 21st position in the rating "100 best rock albums of all time" by the magazine Classic Rock and 464 th place in the list of 500 best albums of all time by the magazine Rolling Stone. ...more

DEREK AND THE DOMINOS (ERIC CLAPTON) -IN CONCERT (2LP'S) -1973 - FIRST PRESS UK -RSO- 2659020 matrices disc one-A1/B1 disc two- A2/B2. A very rare British original of Clapton's iconic concert.  n Concert is a double live album recorded by Derek and the Dominos in October 1970 at the Fillmore East and released in January 1973. Six of the album's nine tracks were later included on the 1994 album Live at the Fillmore. The three songs that were not included in it are "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad", "Let It Rain" and "Tell the Truth". Live at the Fillmore also includes these songs, although they are from other sets rather than the ones featured here. The album received gold status in the USA. ...more