Lot 69MARK KNOPFLER and DIRE STRAITS - BEST OF (PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS) -2005-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-MERCURY-NMINT/NMINT

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

SANDRA-LONG PLAY-1985-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-VIRGIN-207356. A rare original of the cult disco album. The Long Play is the debut studio album by German singer Sandra, released on November 11, 1985 by Virgin Records. The album was a great commercial success and spawned Sandra's signature number one single "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena", as well as the international top five single"In the Heat of the Night". ...more

MOORE GARY-CORRIDORS OF POWER-1982-THE FIRST UK PRESS-VIRGIN-V2245. A rare British original by a great guitarist. Corridors of Power is the second solo studio album by Northern Irish guitarist Gary Moore, released in October 1982.  The album contains a cover version of the Free song "Wishing Well". In the track "End of the World", Jack Bruce from Cream performs the lead vocals along with Moore. Later, in 1993, Moore joined Bruce again in the Bruce-Baker-Moore project. The album also featured former Deep Purple drummer Ian Pace, former Whitesnake bassist Neil Murray, and former Uriah Heep vocalist John Sloane as backing vocalists, as well as keyboardists Tommy Eyre and Don Airey, drummer Bobby Chouinard, and bassist Mo Foster. In October 1982, "Corridors of Power" hit the UK album charts and stayed there for several weeks. Moore also achieved great success in Japan, and in the United States the album stayed on the charts for a total of thirteen weeks the following year. ...more

BLACK SABBATH-BLACK SABBATH VOL 4 -1972- FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO-6360071. 1Y-1/2Y-1 matrices. Stamper 1-1-20 PORKY/1-1-19 PESKO. A very rare original of a cult album . The album reached 8 on the UK Albums Chart and 13 on the Billboard 200. Kerrang Magazine! He ranked the album 48th in the list of "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time."In 2000, Q magazine put Vol.Ranked No. 4 on the 60th place in the list of "100 Greatest British Albums". ...more

PINK FLOYD-THE WALL (2VINYL)-1979-THE FIRST UK HARVEST PRESS - SHDW411 Matrices A-2U/B-3U/C-1U/D-2U (Very early!!!!)  The Wall is the eleventh studio album by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on November 30, 1979 on two discs. This is the last release of the band, recorded in a classic line-up.: David Gilmour (guitar), Roger Waters (bass), Nick Mason (drums) and Richard Wright (keyboards). The Wall was one of the most commercially successful albums of 1980, reaching the top of several charts, including Billboard; by 1999, it had sold over 23 million copies in the United States, making The Wall one of the three best-selling albums in the United States. Rolling Stone magazine ranked this record 87th in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." ...more