Lot 108MINGUS, CHARLES-RIGHT NOW-1966-FIRST PRESS FRANCE -AMERICA-NMINT/NMINT

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

ABBA-VOULEZ-VOUS-1979-THE FIRST PRESS OF SWEDEN-POLAR - POLS282.A rare Swedish original of the cult album.  Voulez-Vous is the sixth studio album by Swedish pop band ABBA, released in 1979. The release is characterized by a large number of dance-oriented tracks, but it is wrong to define the genre of the album as exclusively "disco"; for example, the song "Does Your Mother Know" has quite definite rock motifs. The work on the album went on for more than a year, and during this time the participants had accumulated more material than what they managed to put on the album. Among the works of that period published much later, it is worth mentioning the composition Dream World, included as a bonus track on the 2010 reissue. In 1981, the album "Voulez-Vous" was released in the USSR by the company "Melody" and became the last numbered album "ABBA", released in the Soviet Union. The album, like the previous one, was a huge success, placing in the charts of all countries in the top ten. It became multi-platinum in just one year.  ...more

FORTUNES- SAME -1965-THE FIRST UK PRESS-DECCA-LK4736 is a rare original of the cult beat group. he Fortunes is an English harmony-beat band. Formed in Birmingham, the Fortunes first gained fame and international recognition in 1965, when "You've Got Your Troubles" broke into the Top 10 of the USA, Canada and the UK. They subsequently had a string of hits, including "Here It Comes Again" and "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again", and in the 1970s they released even more internationally successful songs such as "Storm in a Teacup" and "Freedom Come, Freedom Go". In 1966, their manager Reginald Calvert was shot dead in a dispute over pirate radio stations. ...more

LENNON, JOHN-IMAGINE-1971-FIRST PRESS UK-APPLE- PAS10004. YEX 865-1U/YEX 866-1U -RORKY/PESCO matrices. A rare British original . Imagine is the second studio album by English musician John Lennon, released on September 9, 1971 by Apple Records. Co-produced by Lennon, his wife Yoko Ono and Phil Spector, the album's mellow sound contrasts with the basic arrangements of his first album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970),[1] while the opening title track is widely considered his signature song.Imagine it was a critical and commercial success, peaking at number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. Along with John Lennon's band/Plastic Ono, it is considered one of Lennon's best solo albums. In 2012, the album was ranked 80th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time. ...more

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