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DIRE STRAITS-DIRE STRAITS (2LP'S 45RPM)-1978-ORIGINAL PRESS 2019 USA-MOFI-MFSL 2-466. A rare audiophile edition of the iconic album on two records recorded at 45 speed.   Dire Straits is the debut studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released in October 1978. On October 7, 1978, the Dire Straits album was officially released on the Phonogram label. Since 1979, the album has been released under the Vertigo label. The album's sales results are quite impressive, with four million copies sold in Europe and two million copies sold in the United States. The fate of the singles is diametrically different — Sultans of Swing was accepted by the public, reached the 8th position in the UK chart. Water of Love was released in some countries and the best achievement was the 54th position in the Australian chart. ...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

SADE-LOVE DELUXE-1992-FIRST UK-EPIC PRESS number 4726261. A very rare British original of SADE's best album (the black diamond of the British scene). Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by the English band Sade, released by Epic Records in October 1992 in the United Kingdom and in November 1992 in the United States. It differs from Sade's previous three albums by using modern recording and production techniques. Love Deluxe features a "luxurious" aesthetic and lyrics about the complexities of love and loss. Love Deluxe reached the top ten albums in several countries and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its performance, sound and subject matter. It is included in several lists of the best albums of the 1990s and all time, including Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list and Apple Music's "100 Best Albums" list. ...more

DIRE STRAITS-ALCHEMY LIVE-1984-First UK Press-VERTIGO-issue VERYC 11. A rare British original of an iconic concert. Alchemy: Dire Straits Live is the debut live album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on March 14, 1984. The album was recorded during two shows (July 22-23, 1983) at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, the band performed their most famous and fan-favorite hits, many of the compositions were performed with a revised arrangement and contained improvisational segments. ...more

SANTANA-SHAPE SHIIFTER-2012-FIRST UK/EU PRESS-MUSIC ON VINYL- MOVLP573 is a rare European original by the legendary guitarist. Shape Shifter is the twenty—second studio album (thirty-sixth album overall) by Santana. It was released on May 14, 2012. This album is the first released by his new label Starfaith Records, which is distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, the owners of all of Santana's albums (except those recorded for Polydor Records, which are owned by Universal Music Group). This is also the first album since 1992 by Milagro, in which none of the songs have guest vocalists. This style was typical of Santana's Supernatural albums. There is only one song with vocals in the album ("Eres La Luz"). The track "Mr. Szabo" is a tribute to Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo, one of Carlos Santana's early idols, who released a series of 8 albums for Impulse Records between 1966 and 1967; the rhythmic and harmonic structure of the track is similar to "Gypsy Queen", Szabo's 1966 recording, covered by Santana in 1970 this year, as a medley with Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman". ...more