Lot 37OLDFIELD, MIKE-TUBULAR BELLS-1973-FIRST PRESS UK-VIRGIN-NMINT/NMINT

CARAVAN-CUNNING STUNTS-1975-THE FIRST PRESS UK-DECCA-SKL-R-5210 . Matrices A-P2W/B-P2W, a rare British original of the cult prog band. The sixth studio album by the progressive rock band Caravan, released in 1975. It was their first album with bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Mike Wedgwood. The album's title is a spoonerism for "Stunning Cunts", which is characteristic of their bold use of language. The three previous Caravan albums with titles that are also sexual word games, If I Could Do It Again, I Would Do It Again With You (1970), In the Land of Gray and Pink (1971) and For Girls Who Plump at Night (1973). ...more

BLACK SABBATH-BLACK SABBATH -1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 UK-VERTIGO-VO6/847903VTY. Matrices A-1/B-1. A mega rare original of the second press of the first album, which is one of the icons in rock music. Black Sabbath is the debut album by the rock band Black Sabbath, released in the United Kingdom on February 13, 1970. On March 7, 1970, the album rose to #8 on the UK Albums Chart and to #23 on the Billboard 200. Recorded in just three days (8 hours of studio work) and costing the band only 1,200 pounds, Black Sabbath's debut album is now considered a heavy metal classic. In the IGN Music list (Top 25 Metal Albums), he is in 13th place (the band's second album, Paranoid, is second here, behind Master of Puppets (Metallica)).  ...more

DEEP PURPLE-STORMBRINGER-1974-The first DANMARK press-PURPLE RECORDS -TPS3508 . A rare Danish original.Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by English hard rock band Deep Purple, released in November 1974, and the second studio album to feature the Mk III lineup, including vocalist David Coverdale and bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes. ...more

DIDIER MAROUANI-SPACE OPERA-1987-THE FIRST PRESS OF FRANCE-TREMA number 310248. A mega rare album by the leader of the SPACE group, recorded with the orchestra of the "Red Army" of the USSR.  ...more

KATE BUSH- HOUNDS OF LOVE-1985-FIRST PRESS EU-EMI-0622403841. A very rare European original of a cult album. Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by British singer and songwriter Kate Bush, released on September 16, 1985 by EMI Records. Recorded during 1983-1985, the album became the second in the singer's discography, which she produced independently. The album was accompanied by four singles: "Running Up That Hill", "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love" and "The Big Sky". "Running Up That Hill" has become one of Kate Bush's most popular songs. Hounds of Love was the singer's most commercially successful studio album. It became Bush's second album to top the UK national chart, after Never for Ever, and also reached the top ten of the charts in Australia, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Sweden. The album became the first in Bush's career to reach the top thirty of the US Billboard 200. The album was certified double platinum for 600,000 copies sold in the UK, platinum for 500,000 copies in Germany and platinum for 100,000 copies in Canada. The total worldwide circulation of Hounds of Love was 3 million copies. The album was nominated at the 1986 BRIT Awards in the Best British Album category, and Bush was nominated in the Best British Artist and Best British Single categories for the song "Running Up That Hill". In 2022, the album became popular again, entered many charts around the world and topped the American Billboard Top Alternative Albums chart, after the song "Running Up That Hill" appeared in the Netflix series "Very Strange Things". ...more