Lot 15ABBA-ARRIVAL-1976-FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-POLAR-NMINT/NMINT

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - TRILOGY-1972-FIRST UK PRESS-ISLAND-ILPS-9186 Matrix A-2U/B-2U. Rare original great British prog group. Trilogy is the third Studio album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer , released in July 1972 on the label of Island Records . The artwork depicts the combined bust of 3 members. Trilogy increased ELP worldwide popularity, and included "Hoedown", an arrangement of Aaron Copland , which was one of the most popular songs when playing live. ...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

NAZARETH-SNAZ (2LP'S)-1981- THE FIRST UK- NEMS-NELD102 PRESS. A rare British original of the iconic live concert. The full name of the disc is It's Naz: only part of the inscription "'SNAZ" is depicted on the front side of the record, which many mistakenly indicate as the name of the album; there is an assumption (including due to the lack of a space) that this is a "provocation".The album is a recording of a concert at the Pacific Colisium in Vancouver in May 1981, held as part of a tour of North America. Several more concerts of that tour were recorded on tape, but this one, according to the band, was the best. In 2005, the album at number 430 was included in the list of the 500 greatest rock and metal albums of all time by Rock Hard magazine ...more

YELLO-ONE SECOND-1987-THE FIRST PRESS OF GERMANY MERCURY -890956-1.A rare original of the cult duo. One Second is the fifth studio album by Yello. He reached high places in Switzerland - 5th place and Austria - 6th place.  In the USA and Britain, it hit 100 places.  ...more

ABBA-GREATEST HITS -1975-THE FIRST PRESS OF SWEDEN-POLAR-POLS266. A very rare original collection of the cult group. Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Scandinavia on November 17, 1975 and in other parts of the world in 1976, notably in the UK on April 10 and September 18 in the USA and Canada. The release of Greatest Hits coincided with the beginning of ABBA's huge popularity in the UK in the second half of the 1970s, becoming the first of eight consecutive number one albums for the band. It spent eleven consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart and became the best-selling album of 1976 and the second best-selling album of the 1970s. As of July 2016, it is the 46th best-selling album of all time in the UK, with sales of over 2.6 million Greatest Hits was released in the USA and Canada in September 1976, but record sales peaked only in April 1977, when the song "Dancing Queen" took first place in both countries. "Dancing Queen" was not included in the Greatest Hits, but it was the lead single from the new studio album Arrival, and it aroused interest in the ABBA back catalog. Greatest Hits has been certified platinum in the USA and five times platinum in Canada. ...more