Lot 66QUEEN-A KIND OF MAGIC-1986-FIRST PRESS UK-EMI-NMINT/NMINT

MAROUANI,DIDIER & PARIS-FRANCE-TRANSIT-CONCERT USSR-1983-FIRST PRESS FRANCE-VOGUE-406507, Mega rare album is the founder of the group SPACE. Concerts en URSS (Concerts in the USSR) is the first live album Didier Marouani and ensemble Paris-France-Transit concerts, which took place in 1983 in the Soviet Union — in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. Album on two discs includes both tracks from the album in 1982, and an earlier recording Space. The album was released on "vinyl", audio - and videotapes. 2 years before arriving in the USSR with a group of musicians Dominique Perrier and Roger Rizzitelli visited in the socialist camp, and in 1981 they, along with Jean-Michel Jarom came to China with a series of 5 concerts. In 1980, the 1st Deputy Minister of culture of the USSR Yury Barabash while in France met with the composer Didier Marouani and asked him to hold a series of concerts in the USSR, and in the summer of 1983, Didier Marouani, together with his team gave a tour of 21 concerts. The presentation was attended by approximately 600.000 spectators. After the concerts Marouani dubbed "the little Prince synthesizer". After a tour in the firm "Melody" with a delay of 6 years was released the album "Magic flight". ...more

ROUSSOS,DEMIS-HAPPY TO BE-1976-FIRST UK PRESS-PHILIPS-9101027. Matrix A-4/B-2. Rare British original. Roussos has achieved great success in the UK in November 1975 with the song Happy To Be On An Island In The Sun. In June 1976 came the album which reached the first place in British hit-parade. ...more

GORKY PARK (GORKY PARK) GORKY PARK (GORKY PARK)- 1989 - FIRST PRESS (PROMO) USA-MERCURY-838628-1. Gorky Park is the debut album by Soviet glam metal band Gorky Park. Was released in August 1989. In August 1989 Gorky Park release their debut self-titled album. His support in new York was filmed for the song "My Generation" and "Bang". The single "Bang" hit the "top 15" on American MTV and stayed there for two months, reaching 3 lines. The single "Try to Find Me" made it to position 81 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Gorky Park the first Russian band, caught in the American national chart. The album itself got to 80 on the Billboard 200 for three weeks from the start of sales which has a circulation more than 300 thousand copies. ...more

KING CRIMSON - IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1975-HOLLAND-ISLAND-88166XAT. In the Court of the Crimson King is the debut Studio album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1969. The album ranked fifth in the list of Top 25 best albums of progressive rock version Progarchives.com. This drive has had a big and unusually strong influence on the development of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and heavy metal. The album was recorded with exceptional musicality, the poetics of texts. While some rock groups (e.g., Pink Floyd) were prone to writing long songs, while others tried to hold in a rock song freedom jazz forms (Frank Zappa), in the Court of the Crimson King group used a bizarre poetry blakowski nightmares, visions, and premonitions. The group is always attributed to so-called genre of "intelligent heavy metal", and their very first album, created this genre, and also advanced music idea forward on several fronts. The album opens with the song "21st Century Schizoid Man", which is characterized by the use of heavily distorted vocals, deliberately monotonous, mechanical rhythm and piercingly loud saxophone and guitar. The rhythm is specified as the first song, suddenly gives way to a soft melodic calm "I Talk to the Wind". Air psychedelic piece "Moonchild" is completed with free form improvisation. In "Epitaph" and the title "The Court of The Crimson King" " the group used in the orchestration of the Mellotron. ...more

QUEEN-THE WORKS + PROMO TOUR BOOK-1984-FIRST UK PRESS-EMI-EMC2400141. Of The Matrix A-3-1-1-1/B-1-1-1-1. Rare British original. The Works is the eleventh Studio album by British rock band Queen, released on 27 February 1984. The album became a kind of return to roots. After a failed attempt to release a dance album, the group understands that people want the old Queen with a powerful hard fast numbers (Now I'm Here, Dead On Time, Tie Your Mother Down), lyrical ballads (Love Of My Life, Jealousy), hard-rock ballads in the spirit of "waving flag" (We Are The Champions, In The Lap Of The Gods), Opera mnogogolovy (The Prothet''s Song, Somebody To Love) and metal quick strikes (Stone Cold Crazy Let Me Entertain You). As mentioned Brian may, The Works is "A Night At The Opera" with several strokes from The Game. The Works gave the world two great hit songs: "Radio Ga Ga" and "I Want to Break Free". The album went double platinum and was sold over five million copies. ...more