Lot 44BEATLES-REEL MUSIC-1982-FIRST PRESS USA-CAPITOL-NMINT/NMINT

STREISAND, BARBRA - ONE VOICE-1987-FIRST PRESS USA- COLUMBIA-OC40788. A rare American original pop diva of the 60s. One Voice is the third live album released by Barbra Streisand. Her first full-fledged concert in twenty years, One Voice, began as a charity performance at Streisand's house in Malibu, California on September 6, 1986. The concert was broadcast on HBO in December of the same year, and the album was released in April 1987. The album includes Streisand's only recordings of two Harold Arlen classics, Over the Rainbow and It's a New World, as well as her version of America the Beautiful. The concert and the release of the album raised millions for Democratic Party candidates and charities involved in anti-nuclear activities and environmental protection, civil liberties and human rights. ...more

MATIA BAZAR-MELANCHOLIA-1985-THE FIRST PRESS OF ITALY-CDG-ARLP12426. A rare Italian original by a cult rock-pop band. The ninth album by the Italian band. The first album with the new keyboardist Sergio Cossu. The album's title is inspired by Jean Paul Sartre's novel Nausea, as Sartre wanted to call it Melancholia. "Melancholia" becomes an extremely successful album. The song "Souvenir", this time dedicated to the French capital, although it takes only 10th place in Sanremo, but again receives the "Critics Award", reaches 8th place in the national charts. The song "I Feel You" ("Ti sento"), reached number 1 in Italian and Belgian, number 2 in Dutch and number 11 in German charts in 1986, and became a worldwide hit, including in English-speaking countries, recorded in English ("I Feel You"). The English version of Ti sento is I Feel You, a single that was also released successfully in Italy. Thanks to the new electronic sound, Ti sento became a classic of the band and one of the most famous songs of the 80s. In 1985, the band made a long tour of Japan, France, Germany, other European and Latin American countries, and also visited the USSR for the first time. ...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

JOHN, ELTON-GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (2LP)-1973-THE FIRST UK PRESS-DJM - DJLPD1001 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has become the most commercially successful album of the singer's career. He took first place in the charts of the USA and Great Britain and received a platinum disc certificate from the British Phonogram Producers Association and platinum seven times from the American Recording Industry Association. Its worldwide circulation is over 30 million copies. ...more

SONNY ROLLINS-REEL LIFE-1982-THE FIRST USA PRESS-MILESTONE-M9108. A rare American original by an iconic saxophonist. Reel Life is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1982. It includes performances by Rollins with Bobby Broome, Yoshiaki Masuo, Bob Crenshaw and Jack DeJohnette. In the Allmusic review by Michael J. Nastosa says: "As Rollins' career gained momentum, his love of hard bop, Caribbean music, and funk styles continued to attract loyal fans and urban audiences. Rollins, who has an incomparably melodious tenor saxophone, continued in the same spirit." ...more