Lot 81SADE-DIAMOND LIFE1984-FIRST PRESS HOLLAND-EPIC-NMINT/NMINT

SPOOKY TOOTH-THE LAST PUFF-1970-FIRST UK PRESS-ISLAND - ILPS9117 Matrix A//1/B//1 Stamper 1 1/1 2(the Dream!) .Very rare original British cult band. The Last Puff album by the British rock group Spooky Tooth, released in 1970. For the first time in its history, the group was billed as"Spooky Tooth featuring Mike Harrison". The album was released after the departure of lead singer and main songwriter Gary Wright . Wright left the band in early 1970, after the release Ceremony in December 1969."Something To Say" was co-written by Joe Cocker and later appear on his album 1972 Joe Cocker . The Grease band members Henry McCullough, Chris Stainton and Alan Spenner joined the original members of Spooky Tooth Harrison, Grosvenor and Kelly to finalize the album. The band Grease has reached international fame a year earlier, supporting Joe Cocker at Woodstock. the album was produced jointly by Stantom and Chris Blackwell. The album is highly acclaimed by Allmusic - 5 stars, 46 spot on the Billboard 200. ...more

MCCARTNEY, PAUL-RAM-1971-UK FIRST PRESS-APPLE - PAS10003 matrix A1/B1. Stamper 1MA/2AA. Ram album by Paul and Linda McCartney, released in may 1971. The disc rose to #1 on the UK Albums Chart and to #2 on the Billboard 200. On 9 June, the album received in Britain "gold" status. If the first album McCartney wrote and recorded independently, then work on the second album, in addition to Linda took part guitarists Dave Spinoza (two years later played with John Lennon in Mind Games) and Hugh Douglas, and drummer Danny seiwell, who later became the party Wings. From the album came three singles. August 2 in the United States — "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" ("Too Many People" on the back; two days later, after release it climbed to the top of the lists, and on September 21 went gold), 8 August in the UK — "The Back Seat Of My Car" ("Heart Of The Country", #39), in August in France — "Eat At Home" ("Smile Away") ...more

DEEP PURPLE-IN ROCK-1970 - UK FIRST PRESS-HARVEST room SHVL777. Matrix A-2/B-1. Rare British original . Deep Purple in Rock the first Studio album by the classic lineup known as "Mark II". On this album the band's style changed to a hard-and-heavy. ...more

CAPTAIN BEYOND-SAME-1972-FIRST PRESS USA-CAPRICORN-CP0105. Very rare American original cult album. Captain Beyond is the debut album by Captain Beyond, was released in 1972 , which was attended by former members of Iron Butterfly , Deep Purple , Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer . Album cover for the U.S. release included 3-D artwork (using lenticular printing). Captain Beyond is unique among guitar hard rock albums because it contains a wide variety of influences, including Latin and jazz, often with various time signatures and a wide range of dynamics within the same song. Most of the album consists of three a medley of tightly spaced interconnected songs. The first begins with "mad dance backwards (on a sea of air) "and ends with"myopic void". The second begins with "Thousand days of yesterday (Intro) "and ends with"thousand days of yesterday (time since come and leave)". The third begins with the song "I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 1) " and closes the album. The songs flow directly into each other without any delay between samples, which is characteristic of other more progressive groups of the era such as the Moody Blues and Jethro Tull . ...more

ROXY MUSIC-ROXY MUSIC 1972-FIRST UK PRESS-ISLAND - ILPS-9200. Matrix A-1U/B2U, Stamper 1T/1MG. Rare British original. Roxy Music is the debut Studio album by the English group. In 2003, Rolling Stone chose the album as number 62 in its list of the best debut albums of all time. ...more