Lot 98MILES DAVIS-FOUR AND MORE RECORDED LIVE IN CONCERT-1966-FIRST PRESS UK-CBS-NMINT/NMINT

QUEEN-SHEER HEART ATTACK-1974-FIRST PRESS UK-EMI-EMC3061. Of the matrix A-4U/B-1U. Stamper 1HO/1OO (Dream!) Mega rare British copy of the original with a unique b-1U second-side matrix. Cover of the first thousand copies of the print ( without TRIDENT LOGO and CREST LOGO). Research leads to the idea that most likely on this combination of matrices was launched the first edition of 300 pieces and only then moved to the combinations 3/3, 3/4, 4/4. About the album: The first fame, as well as commercial success, came to the group with this record, and the song "Killer Queen" became their first big hit, reaching number two in England. The album itself also reached number two in the UK and number 12 on the 1975 Billboard charts. ...more

SUPERTRAMP-CRISIS! WHAT CRISIS?-1975-FIRST PRESS UK-AM- number AMLH68347 is a rare British original of the cult group. Crisis? What Crisis? is the fourth studio album by the prog rock band Supertramp, released in 1975. Crisis? What Crisis? the band's first CD recorded in the USA (Los Angeles). The title of the album is taken from Fred Zinnerman's feature film "The Day of the Jackal", released in 1973. Allmusic fully praised the album in their retrospective review, praising Rick Davis' keyboard work, Roger Hodgson's vocals, and John Helliwell's saxophone. They especially noted the emotionally powerful songwriting, which, in their opinion, gave the album "a warm personality and a charmingly subtle mood" The album received platinum in the USA and Canada, gold in Europe and Britain. ...more

DIRE STRAITS-COMMUNIQUE (2LP'S 45RPM)-1979-ORIGINAL PRESS 2019 USA-MOFI-MFSL 2-467. A rare audiophile edition of the iconic album on two records recorded at 45 speed. .Communiqué is the second studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released in 1979. Communiqué was recorded in November-December 1978, at Compass Point Studios, Nassau and produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett. The album became the first to debut on the German charts at number 1 in the first week of sales (their debut album Dire Straits was still at number 3 in that country). It has sold over 7 million copies worldwide. It sold 3,600,000 copies in Europe, and reached gold status in the United States. ...more

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