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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER- CATS (2LP'S)-1981-THE FIRST UK PRESS-POLYDOR-CATX001. A very rare British original of a cult rock opera. "Cats" is a musical musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on T. S. Eliot's 1939 collection of poems, The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellykles and the night they make the "Jellykles choice", deciding which cat will rise to the Heaviside layer and return to a new life. As of 2024, "Cats" remains the fifth longest-running Broadway show and the eighth longest-running show in the West End. Lloyd Webber began writing music based on Eliot's poems in 1977, and in 1980 these compositions were first presented as a song cycle. Then producer Cameron Mackintosh invited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynn to turn the songs into a full-fledged musical. "Cats" received positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981, followed by mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982. They have won numerous awards, including the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Musical. Despite the unusual idea, which initially scared off investors, the musical was an unprecedented commercial success: by 2012, its box office worldwide totaled 3.5 billion US dollars. ...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

VISSOTSKI VLADIMIR(VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY)- HAVE A HAPPY MEMORY... SONGS OF 1962-1964-1984-THE FIRST UK PRESS RELEASE-ODEON-VV-002. A very rare British edition . All sound recordings from the collection of Vladimir Ameduri. Only 900 copies were released for sale.  ...more

VLADIMIR VISSOTSKI(VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY)-VLADIMIR/VISSOTSKY-1988-THE FIRST PRESS-FRANCE-LE CHANT DU MONDE-LDX74887. The French original edition of the joint album by Vladimir Vysotsky and his wife Marina Vladi, recorded with the accompaniment of the Melody ensemble, complete with two tabs with Russian and French lyrics. ...more

CLAPTON, ERIC-UNPLUGGED-1992-FIRST PRESS UK/EU GERMANY-REPRISE room 9362-45024-1 Very rare original.One of the most famous albums of Blues-rock musician ERIC CLAPTON, released in 1992. Was recorded at Bray Studios in Windsor, England on 16 January 1992. Part of a series of live albums recorded live for MTV Unplugged. The album includes 14 of your favorite songs Clapton.In 2000 Unplugged occupied 71 place in the list of "100 greatest British albums ever" by the magazine Q. In 2011 — 9th place in the list of "top 10 guitar albums of 1992" by Guitar World. ...more