Lot 45VANGELIS - BEST OF-1978-FIRST PRESS UK - RCA-NMINT/NMINT

QUEEN-SHEER HEART ATTACK-1974-FIRST UK PRESS-EMI -EMC3061. Matrix A-4U/B-3U. Rare British original. First fame, and commercial success came to the band with this album, and the song "Killer Queen" was their first big hit, reaching second place in England. The album itself also reached second place in the UK and 12th in the charts of Billboard 1975. ...more

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

JOHN, ELTON - ROCK OF THE WESTIES-1975-THE FIRST UK PRESS-DJM-DJM-DJLPH464. A rare British original by the master of the British stage. Rock of the Westies is the tenth studio album by English musician Elton John, released in October 1975. Like the previous album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, it reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. In the UK, Rock of the Westies rose to fifth place on the UK Albums sales list. ...more

RAY CHARLES-INVITES YOU TO LISTEN- 1967-ПЕРВЫЙ ПРЕСС UK-HMV-CSD3630. Редкий британский оригинал культового альбома.  После выхода в 1967 году альбома с лучшими хитами Рэя Чарльза A Man and His Soul он вернулся в студию звукозаписи, чтобы начать работу над Ray Charles Invites You to Listen. Продюсером альбома был Джо Адамс. Чарльз использовал фальцет в альбоме «исключительно ради собственного удовольствия». Ray Charles Invites You to Listen состоит в основном из стандартов. Сид Феллер выбрал для альбома десять песен и написал к ним аранжировки. В двух песнях использовался биг-бэнд, а в остальных — четырнадцать струнных инструментов, восемь медных духовых инструментов, гитара, бас-гитара и ударные; Феллер дирижировал струнными, а Адамс сводил запись. Рэй Чарльз приглашает вас послушать кавер-версию The Beatles «Yesterday»; Чарльз намеренно записал песню хриплым голосом, чтобы название звучало как «даш-тердаи». Чарльз также перезаписал «People» Джула Стайна с тромбоном вампом ...more

ENNIO MORRICONE- FILM MUSIC 1966-1987 (2LP'S) -1987- ПЕРВЫЙ ПРЕСС UK-VIRGIN-VD2516. Редкий  двойной британский оригинал  компиляций короля саундтреков.  ...more