Lot 90DIANA ROSS AND SUPREMES - LOVE CHILD- 1968-FIRST PRESS DANMARK-MOTOWN-NMINT/NMINT

LED ZEPPELIN-HOUSES OF THE HOLY-1973-FIRST PRESS USA (CUT RL)-ATLANTIC-SD7255 matrices ST-A-732783-C AT STERLING RL / ST-A-732784-F AT STERLING RL .Richmond Press. A mega rare American original. Mastering was done by Robert Ludwig (label RL) 1st edition in the USA (with the Broadway address of 1841 on the labels), with Robert Ludwig's "hot" mastering on both sides. The first copies went on sale and began to be recalled for production, because the high bass led to poor quality cartridges (heads) malfunctioning, which forced people to return the album, believing that it was defective. Then another sound engineer was hired to redo a much less "hot" version of the album, and this is a common version..Houses of the Holy is the fifth studio album by British rock band Led Zeppelin, released on March 28, 1973 on Atlantic Records. Page described the idea of the cover as "a symbol of innocence, an expression of the idea that we are all beings who aspire to the promised heaven." Six-year-old Samantha Gates and her four-year-old brother Stefan posed. The cover photo is a collage of more than thirty images. The album cover did not contain any information about the artists or the title. In the USA, the headline was written on ribbons that were taped over children's buttocks. Despite this precaution, the record was banned in many states of the "Bible Belt". "They wouldn't let us do anything like that today, they would immediately accuse us of pedophilia propaganda," says Powell. "But we were hippies, walking around naked was completely commonplace for us." In 2011, the album cover was ranked 28th in the list of the best album covers of all time by the online publication Music Radar. In the music ranking, the album immediately took from 1 to 10 places in the charts of countries on all continents, immediately becoming multi-platinum.  ...more

BEATLES-SAME (WHITE ALBUM)- STEREO-1968-FIRST PRESS-UK-APPLE- PCS7068 Matrix Numbers: A-1/B-1/C-1/D-1. Version with the added text “An E. M. I. Recording".  The cover number is N 162495” "The Beatles (also known as the White Album; ) is the tenth studio album by The Beatles and the band's only double release. The album, released in 1968, is better known as the "White Album" because of its white cover, on which there is nothing but the name of the band (the serial number also appears on early editions), and which was designed by artist Richard Hamilton as an antithesis to the motley image of his predecessor. White Album was the first album The Beatles recorded and released after the death of the band's manager Brian Epstein. It was originally planned to be called A Doll's House ("Doll's House"), however, due to the release of the Family group's longplay with a similar name, Music in a Doll's House ("Music in a Doll's House"), it was decided to rename it. The album reached number 1 in the UK and US charts and is now considered one of the greatest albums of all time and a masterpiece of rock music. Thus, he was placed at the 10th position in the "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM, as well as at the 17th place in a similar list of Q magazine. In addition, it reached the 7th place in the poll "100 best British albums of all time" by the same publication. White Album took 11th place in the rating of the "Best albums of all time" according to VH1, and also got into the list of the "100 best albums" according to Time magazine. In addition, the record occupies the 10th position in the list of the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, the 1st in the rating of the L.A. Weekly newspaper "20 greatest double albums", a similar place in the NME list "30 double albums must-listen", as well as the highest line in the rating of The Daily Telegraph newspaper "10 greatest double albums in history". According to the RIAA, the White Album is the band's best-selling album in the United States and ranks 10th among the best-selling albums in history. ...more

DIRE STRAITS-LOVE OVER GOLD-1982-FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO - 6359109 . A rare British original of the cult group. Love over Gold is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on September 20, 1982 on Vertigo Records and Warner Bros. Records in the USA. The presence of detailed musical compositions with long instrumental passages in the album brings it closer in style to progressive rock. This is the last CD of the band recorded with the participation of the original drummer Peak Withers. The singles from the album, "Private Investigations", reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Industrial Disease" reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The album topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and the UK, and peaked at No. 19 in the US. Love over Gold was later certified gold in the US, platinum in France and Germany, and double platinum in Canada and the UK. ...more

SUPERMAX-MEETS THE ALMIGHTY-1981-GERMANY'S FIRST PRESS EXPORT-ELEKTRA- ELK52317. A mega rare original of a cult album.  Meets The Almighty is the fifth studio album by disco-funk classics. Meets the Almighty, released in 1981, was the band's last release to be released by Warner Music Group. Since then, it has never been re-released on vinyl. Despite the fact that the album was a commercial failure at the time of its original release, today Meets the Almighty is considered one of Supermax's best studio works by fans. ...more

PUPO-COME SEI BELLA -1977-ПЕРВЫЙ ПРЕСС ITALY-BABY-LPX013.  Редкий итальянский оригинал культового альбома. Энцо Дзинацци, наиболее известный как Пупо-итальянский певец, автор текстов, телеведущий и писатель. В 1975 году он дебютировал как автор-исполнитель под сценическим псевдонимом Пупо с песней «Ti scriverò» («Я напишу тебе»).  Первый альбом Пупо Come sei bella («Ты такая красивая») вышел в 1977 году. Его второй альбом Gelato al cioccolato стал первым крупным успехом исполнителя. В него вошли хиты «Ciao» и «Gelato al cioccolato», написанные в соавторстве с Кристиано Мальджольо; этот альбом стал первым из 11 золотых альбомов исполнителя. В 1980 году Пупо впервые принял участие в музыкальном фестивале в Сан-Ремо с песней, получившей золотой статус, — "Su di noi" ("Над нами"): песня вошла в его третий альбом Più di prima ("Больше, чем раньше"), который стал самым продаваемым альбомом Пупо, а также включал песню "Firenze Santa Maria Novella" — любовное послание городу Флоренция. В 1981 году он написал свой первый хит для другого исполнителя — Sarà perché ti amo, который в том же году исполнили Ricchi e Poveri на фестивале в Сан-Ремо. Пупо снова принял участие в фестивале в 1983 году с песней "Cieli azzurri" ("Голубое небо"), а в 1984 году — с песней "Un amore grande" ("Большая любовь"), написанной Умберто Тоцци и Джанкарло Бигацци. В 1986 году он выпустил альбом Pupo в СССР, который имел большой успех и принёс ему известность в Восточной Европе. В следующем году он выиграл международный фестиваль детской песни Zecchino d'Oro как автор песни «Canzone amica» («Песня о дружбе»). Пупо много гастролировал по всему миру и в 1991 году выпустил свой первый и на сегодняшний день единственный концертный альбом Canada's Wonderland, записанный в Торонто.В 1992 году он в четвёртый раз принял участие в музыкальном фестивале в Сан-Ремо, на этот раз под своим настоящим именем, с духовной песней «La mia preghiera» («Моя молитва»). ...more