Lot 43CARAVAN-THE ALBUM-1980-FIRST PRESS UK-KINGDOM-NMINT/NMINT

VLADIMIR PRESNYAKOV AND THE CAPTAIN-LOVE-1991-FIRST PRESS RUSSIA-ALT-C60 31613-4.  A rare early album by Presnyakov with the band Kapitan.  ...more

ROXETTE-PEARLS OF PASSION-1986-FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-EMI -1362451. A rare Swedish original of the cult band's debut album. The debut album of the Swedish pop-rock band Roxette. Pearls of Passion was recorded at EMI Studios in Stockholm in 1986, and was released only in Scandinavia and Canada. The first edition of the Swedish record has an engraved inscription on the rim: "T'WAS A PLEASURE - CAPTAIN AND KANGAROO". The inscription has a hidden meaning, but Per Gessle does not reveal the secret and wants it to remain a secret. ...more

KALINOV MOST-VYVOROTEN-1991-FIRST PRESS RUSSIA-SNC-R60 00419. A rare original of the first album of the Russian cult prog group. "Vyvoroten" is the debut studio album by the Russian folk-rock band "Kalinov Most". Refers to a total two-year studio cycle consisting of three albums: "Vyvoroten", "Darza", "Uzaren", the material for which was written continuously.The word "Eversion" in Belarus, in rural areas, is called trees that have fallen on the road, after a hurricane or thunderstorm. Example of use: "I took you another way, because on the old one, after yesterday, there were vyvorotni." It did not contain any of the songs that had already brought the band fame. The songs were not just different, but completely different in poetics, completely incomprehensible from where the author (Dmitry Revyakin) came mysterious images, intricacies of words. And a specific melos, in which, in addition to "blues" and "rock" elements, ethnic motifs and shamanic chants were fused.  ...more

COVERDALE-PAGE-COVERDALE - PAGE-1993-FIRST PRESS UK-EMI EMD1041 / 077778140115 Mega rare genius work of two masters-WHITESNAKE vocals and LED ZEPPELIN guitar. Coverdale-Page (styled as Coverdale • Page) is the only studio album by Whitesnake vocalist David Coverdale and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (co-written as Coverdale-Page), released by Geffen Records in North America and EMI internationally on March 15, 1993. The album was recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, Criterion Studios in Miami, Granny's House in Reno, Nevada, and Abbey Road Studios in London. Recording began in the fall of 1991 and ended in early 1992. It was produced by Page, Coverdale, and Canadian record producer Mike Fraser.According to Coverdale, the traffic sign shown on the cover of the album, meant two roads connecting one. Coverdale-Page peaked at number 4 on the UK chart and number 5 on the US Billboard 200 chart, and the album was certified gold by the RIAA for selling over 500,000 copies on record, CD, and cassette, and eventually went platinum. ...more

ARIA - HERO OF ASPHALT (+V. KHOLSTININ AUTOGRAPH) - 1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027413000. A rare original of the cult album. Hero of Asphalt is the third studio album by Aria. This is the first album after the split of the band in early 1987, "Hero of Asphalt" is also the first album officially released by "Melody", the two previous albums at that time existed and were distributed as tape albums only on tape cassettes. The album was a great success, its sales exceeded 1 million copies (which in the United States corresponds to the platinum status), but the exact circulation is unknown even to the company "Melody", although, according to her, at least 1.5 million records were printed.On this album, for the first time, all the lyrics were written by Margarita Pushkina, and Alexander Elin, who wrote the lyrics to previous albums, left for the Master group and did not work with Aria until 2001.In 2008, a concert tour was held in honor of the 20th anniversary of the album, which resulted in the release of a double live album and a concert video "Hero of Asphalt XX years". The original album line-up performed at the concert and all the pieces were performed in the same order. In May 2012, as a result of a vote held on the website openspace.ru, the album "Hero of Asphalt" took the first position in the list of 50 major records of "Melody" and on April 23, 2013 was re-released on vinyl in a limited edition of 500 copies as part of the project "Melody-50", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the company.  ...more