Lot 16ABBA-ALBUM-1977-FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-POLAR-NMINT/NMINT

AGNETHA FALTSKOG (EX-ABBA)-WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND ME-1983-ПЕРВЫЙ ПРЕСС SWEDEN-POLAR-POLS363. Редкий скандинавский оригинал сольного альбома Agnetha. Wrap Your Arms Around Me — седьмой студийный  После распада группы ABBA в конце 1982 года она встретилась в Лондоне с продюсером Майком Чепменом, известным по работе с Blondie. Он начал сотрудничать с Фелтског, придумав название для альбома, и выступил его продюсером. Запись Wrap Your Arms Around Me проходила в Polar Music Studios в Стокгольме, Швеция, где Фелтског работала с авторами песен и студийными музыкантами, которые ранее сотрудничали с ABBA, и завершила работу над альбомом за три месяца. Альбом стал важным этапом в сольной карьере Бьортни Фелтсхог и ознаменовал переход от поп-ориентированного звучания ABBA к более современной музыке для взрослых и софт-року, которые стали характерными для Фелтсхог вплоть до выхода ее последнего сольного альбома I Stand Alone. Wrap Your Arms Around Me — это баллада в энергичном, интроспективном стиле dance, сочетающая в себе различные формы поп-музыки, пост-диско, европоп, синти-поп, калипсо, а также предвосхищающая альбомно-ориентированный рок на протяжении большей части альбома.  После выхода альбом стал коммерчески успешным в континентальной Европе, возглавив чарты в Швеции и Норвегии. Однако за пределами Европы он имел лишь скромный успех в американском чарте Billboard 200, заняв 102-е место. ...more

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND-THE ROARING SILENCE-1976-FIRST PRESS UK-BRONZE -ILPS9357 matrix A1/B1 . A rare British original. The Roaring Silence is the seventh studio album by the rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on August 27, 1976 by Bronze Records in the UK and Warner Bros. Records" in the USA. The album rose to #10 on the Billboard 200 and is the most commercially successful of the band's entire existence. ...more

GUNS N' ROSES - USE YOUR ILLUSION -2 - FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GEFFEN-GEF24420. Very rare original cult album. Use Your Illusion II is the fourth Studio album by American rock band Guns N’ Roses, released in 1991. Drive the first of two albums released in conjunction with the tour Use Your Illusion Tour. The second album titled Use Your Illusion II. The disc climbed to the second place of the Billboard. For the first week, it sold 685, 000 copies, Use Your Illusion II was the slightly more successful (770 000 for the first week). Use Your Illusion I in the United States has sold 5 502 000, says Nielsen SoundScan..Each of the albums Use Your Illusion became seven-times platinum (RIAA). The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1992 ...more

COLOSSEUM-THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE SALUTE YOU-1969-FIRST PRESS UK-FONTANA-STL5510. A very rare British original of the cult album.The debut album of Colosseum, released in 1969 by Fontana label. This is one of the innovative albums in the style of jazz fusion. The name is a translation of the Latin phrase morituri te salutant, which, according to popular belief (but not academic agreement), gladiators addressed to the emperor before the start of a gladiatorial duel. The original vinyl album had the name "Colosseum" on the record label and on the spine of the cover, but the album is better known as "Those Who are About to Die Greet You". The album reached number 15 on the UK Albums Chart. ...more

URIAH HEEP-...VERY 'EAVY VERY 'UMBLE-1970-FIRST PRESS (STANDARD VERSION) UK- VERTIGO SWIRL-6360006. A-1/B-1 Stamper matrices 420-1-1-4./ 420-1-1-5   An earlier version with an error on the label (songwriters and publishing are not specified) has been corrected to this version of the label. At the same time, the matrices and stamps remained the same, as well as the error in the track list on the inside of the cover.   A mega rare British original of a cult album. The album was released in June 1970 by Vertigo Records in the UK. The original vinyl release was a spread-out envelope with frontman David Byron depicted on the front sleeve, almost unrecognizable under the cobwebs. It was released in August 1970 by Mercury Records in the United States under the name just Uriah Heep with a different cover design (a centipede-type monster) and with the track "Bird of Prey" instead of "Lucy Blues". The album was re-released by Bronze Records in 1971 after the band signed a contract with that label. The album shows how the band tries different genres – a mix of heavy metal and progressive rock, rather than hard rock, which they became known for on later albums. Tracks 3 and 8 were recorded as Spice songs before the band's renaming to Uriah Heep, and featured session musician Colin Wood on keyboards. When Ken Hensley joined Spice in early 1970, the tracks were not re-recorded. ...more