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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

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

THE BEATLES-1962-1966- THE FIRST PRESS -1973-UK-APPLE-PCSP717/OC192o05307-8. Matrices A-1/B-3/C-2/D-1. Collection of the best songs of the group of 1962-66. The first edition was on black vinyl, later it was released on red colored vinyl. 1962-1966 (also known as the "Red Album") is a collection of hits by the English rock band The Beatles, covering the years indicated in the title. Released together with its 1967-1970 counterpart (The Blue Album) in 1973, the double album reached number 3 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it topped the Cash Box Albums chart and reached number 3 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.  Tape, while in 1967-1970 it took the first place. The album was re-released in September 1993 on CD, reaching number 3 in the UK. ...more

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VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY -VYSOTSKY BEGAN LIKE THIS-1984-THE FIRST PRESS USA-SIGN-S003. To say that this is a mega rare original is certainly not enough. This is a uniquely rare original, and we can safely say that it is already a museum exhibit. 100 copies of rare recordings of street songs were printed. ...more