Lot 76MATIA BAZAR-TANGO-1983-FIRST PRESS ITALY-CDG-NMINT/NMINT

HAWKWIND-CHURCH OF HAWKWIND-1982-THE FIRST UK PRESS-RCA-RCALP9004. A-1U/B-1U matrices. A rare British original by a cult prog band. Church of Hawkwind is the twelfth studio album by the band Hawkwind, released under the name Church of Hawkwind in 1982. The name change reflects the fact that it was a musical experiment for the band, a more experimental electronic album than the usual heavy rock band.  The album "Church of Hawkwind" entered the UK chart and became the finale of a 10-year presence in it. ...more

ABBA-VOYAGE-2021-THE FIRST EU/USA PRESS-POLAR-602438614813. A rare original on black vinyl released after a 40-year hiatus. Voyage is the ninth and final studio album by the Swedish pop band ABBA, released on November 5, 2021. The album includes ten songs written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. This is the band's first album with new material in forty years. Voyage debuted at the top of the charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It also became the band's most popular studio album in Canada and the United States (as well as their first album to reach the top ten in the latter country), debuting at number two on the charts of both countries. The album was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards in 2023, as well as for "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down": the former was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2022. This year (the band's first Grammy nomination), and the second — for "Record of the Year" and "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group" at the Grammy Awards in 2023.[12] The album has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. ...more

ROLLING STONES-SOME GIRLS-1978-FIRST PRESS UK-ROLLING STONES- CUN39108. A5U/B-3U matrices.  A rare British original in the five color version of the cover.  Some Girls is the fourteenth British and sixteenth American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978 on the band's own label. The longplay reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and became one of the band's most successful albums in the United States, with over six million copies sold. The CD received rave reviews from the press, many reviewers called it the Rolling Stones' return to the roots and their best album since Exile on Main St. ...more

TEN YEARS AFTER-CRICKLEWOOD GREEN (+POSTER)-1970-FIRST PRESS UK-DERAM-SML1065. Matrices A-1W/B-1W. A very rare original of blues giants.  Cricklewood Green is the fourth studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1970. Allmusic gave Cricklewood Green an exceptionally positive retrospective review, praising each individual track and summarizing that "the band and engineer Andy Jones mix studio tricks and sound effects, blues-based song structures, a driving rhythm section and Alvin Lee's signature lightning-fast guitar playing into a single album that perfectly blends from start to finish" The album reached in 1970 in the USA -14 place, Australia -19 place. ...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