Lot 29HENDRIX, JIMI-WAR HEROES-1972-FIRST PRESS UK - POLYDOR-NMINT/NMINT

ALEXANDER LYAPIN (EX-DDT, AQUARIUM) - ANASHA-1992-FIRST PRESS LATVIA-RITONIS-8824. A rare original of the iconic guitarist.Alexander Sergeyevich Lyapin (born June 1, 1956, Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian musician, virtuoso guitarist. In 2013, he emigrated to the United States  In the late 70s, life forced Lyapin to go on the professional stage, where he played in several VIA, toured a lot in the most remote corners of the country, but in January 1982 he returned to rock and roll as the guitarist of "Aquarium" and quickly became an integral part of their sound palette and stage show. The band's repertoire includes several of his instrumental pieces. The famous blues "Cold Beer", a version of the song by Boris Grebenshchikov and the future "mitka" Vladimir Shinkarev, interpreted by Alexander based on the music of Jimi Hendrix, for a long time became a real calling card of the guitarist. In 1988-1990, "EXPERIMENTS" regularly performed in St. Petersburg halls, while Lyapin himself simultaneously recorded with Yuri Morozov, and played with "DDT". In general, Lyapin's collaboration with DDT has always been distinguished by originality: the guitarist was not in the permanent composition of the group, but took part in its work if he was interested in a particular program of the group. Since 1988 — he has been a regular member of Sergey Kuryokhin's POP MECHANICS, with which he played until Kuryokhin's death in July 1996. He was a permanent creative partner of Sergey, engaged in the Rock sector of the project, from the experience of working with which the now existing "ROCKMECHANIKA" grew. At the end of 1990, Lyapin, who had just returned from a long trip to the United States, organized a new group "Turkish Tea", in which the cellist Vsevolod Gakkel (ex-" Aquarium") and the drummer Alexander Yemelyanov (ex-" Gezy","Resurrection") played. The group began to give concerts, performed at the Tenth Anniversary of the Leningrad Rock Club (March 1991), changed its composition a couple of times and disbanded by the summer of the same year. Meanwhile, in February 1991, Lyapin unexpectedly appeared with "Aquarium" on the stage of the Palace of Youth, and a month later took part in the sensational Last Concert of the group during the same Decade of the Leningrad Rock Club in the DS  In August 1991, at the Leningrad Recording Studio, Yuri Morozov finished almost two years of work on Lyapin's album "Anasha", in the recording of which the musicians" DDT", the famous jazz saxophonist Mikhail Kosciushkin and the sisters Marina and Tatiana Kapuro took part. ...more

OVERLANDERS-MICHELLE-1965-FIRST PRESS UK-PYE-NPL18138. A rare British original beat band. They released twelve singles on the Pye Record label between 1963 and 1966, but only one major LP. The Overlanders 'only UK hit was a cover of The Beatles' "Michelle". In January 1966, it reached number 1 on the Record Retailers chart (later the UK Singles Chart). In doing so, the single beat off a rival recording of David and Jonathan's "Michelle", whose version was produced by George Martin and featured arrangements by Tony Hatch.  ...more

FREEDOM-THROUGH THE YEARS-1971-FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO-6360049. Mega rare original of the cult album of the British prog-hard-blues band. Freedom was formed with two former Procol Harum members, guitarist Ray Royer and drummer Bobby Harrison. Freedom were a legendary British psychedelic hard rock band. It is their fourth album, originally released for the Vertigo collector's label in 1971. Powerful hard rock / blues sound with loud wah / distorted guitars, long tracks, bright vocals. Although the roots of” Through the Years “lie in hard rock, most of the songs have a lot of blues influences (especially in the guitar solos), and in addition to acoustic guitars, they use very” catchy " vocal harmonies in their songs.  ...more

BEE GEES-ODESSA-1969-FIRST PRESS (MONO) - UK-POLYDOR-582049. Matrix A1/B1/C3/D1 / A very rare mono original of the cult album. Odessa is the sixth studio album by The Bee Gees, a double vinyl album released on March 30, 1969, originally in a deluxe red flocked cover with gold lettering. Despite reaching the top ten in the UK and the top twenty in the US, the album was not particularly well received, although it is now considered by many to be the band's most significant album of the sixties. An ambitious project, originally conceived as a concept album about the loss of a fictional ship in 1899, it created tension and disagreement within the band over the direction of work; finally, a dispute over which song to release as a single led to Robin Gibb temporarily leaving the band.Released by Polydor Records in the UK and Atco Records in the US, Odessa was the band's fourth album to be released internationally, and their only double album of original music. This will be the last album, which will be presented the original incarnation of the group, and the last in which will participate guitarist Vince Meloni. The album includes the 1969 hit single "First of May" (UK No. 6 / US No. 37) and well-known tracks such as "Lamplight", "Marley Purt Drive" and " Melody Fair", ...more

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND-GLORIFIED MAGNIFIED-1972-FIRST PRESS UK-PHILIPS-6308125. Matrix A-1/B-1 is a very rare British original of the cult album. Glorified Magnified is the 2nd studio album by English prog rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Recorded in the summer of 1972 in London at the studio "Maximum". It was released on September 29, 1972, via Philips Records in the United Kingdom and Polydor Records in the United States. For the first time, the band's corporate logo appears on the cover, which will now be shown in a reduced form or color version on all Manfred Mann's Earth Band albums. "Glorified Magnified" was released a little more than six months after the debut album of the band "Manfred Mann's Earth Band". In general, he continued the line outlined by the first album-compositions in the style of heavy progressive rock of the early 1970s with elements of blues and folk, dominated by electric guitar and keyboards. According to music critic Bruce Eder, this is a" hard rock "album of its era, which, due to the mixture of rock, synthesizer and chorus, sometimes achieves the sound characteristic of "King Crimson" of the mid-1970s. Most of the songs are written by the band members, but there are a few cover versions of songs by other musicians, including a treatment of the popular song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" by Bob Dylan from the 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. ...more