Lot 28BEATLES-ABBEY ROAD-1969-FIRST PRESS UK-APPLE-NMINT/NMINT

GRADSKY, ALEXANDER-THE MAN (2LP) - 1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027515000. A rare original of the cult album. The Man (rock ballet, music by A. Gradsky, recorded in 1987).Alexander Borisovich Gradsky (born Fradkin; b. November 3, 1949, Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet and Russian singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, poet, composer. One of the founders of Russian rock. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997). Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1999). People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2014). Artistic Director of the Gradsky Hall Theater. ...more

THIN LIZZY-CHINATOWN-1980-FIRST PRESS UK-VERTIGO-6359030. A rare British original by British hard rockers.  Chinatown is the tenth studio album by the Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1980. He introduced guitarist Snowy White, who would also perform on the next album, and also toured with Thin Lizzy between 1980 and 1982; he replaced Gary Moore as the permanent guitarist. White has previously worked with Cliff Richard, Peter Green, and Pink Floyd. Eighteen-year-old Darren Wharton also played keyboards in Chinatown, and later that year he joined Thin Lizzy as a permanent member.  The album reached high positions in the charts, although according to critics it was weaker than Black rose, UK Albums Chart-7 place, Billboard 200 (USA) - 120 place.  ...more

AGATHA CHRISTIE-GUILE AND LOVE-1990-FIRST PRESS USSR-SINTEZ-1-004-C-6. A rare original of the cult album. Treachery and Love is the second studio album by the Soviet rock band Agatha Christie, released in 1989. There are two versions: the first of them was mixed at the "Studio NP" and distributed as a tape album. Soon, the album was re-recorded for the record and released in 1991 under the label "Sintez Records". The band gained some fame and successfully performed at several rock festivals, in particular, at the 3rd festival of the Sverdlovsk Rock Club. Two songs from the album were included in the audio application of the literary-musical and socio-political magazine "Krugozor" The album is highly appreciated by critics and enjoys wide demand and popularity. ...more

ABBA-VOULEZ-VOUS-1979-THE FIRST PRESS OF SWEDEN-POLAR - POLS282.A rare Swedish original of the cult album.  Voulez-Vous is the sixth studio album by Swedish pop band ABBA, released in 1979. The release is characterized by a large number of dance-oriented tracks, but it is wrong to define the genre of the album as exclusively "disco"; for example, the song "Does Your Mother Know" has quite definite rock motifs. The work on the album went on for more than a year, and during this time the participants had accumulated more material than what they managed to put on the album. Among the works of that period published much later, it is worth mentioning the composition Dream World, included as a bonus track on the 2010 reissue. In 1981, the album "Voulez-Vous" was released in the USSR by the company "Melody" and became the last numbered album "ABBA", released in the Soviet Union. The album, like the previous one, was a huge success, placing in the charts of all countries in the top ten. It became multi-platinum in just one year.  ...more

PINK FLOYD-FINAL CUT-1983-FIRST PRESS HOLLAND-HARVEST-1C064-65042 Matrix A-E2/B-E2. This is the last Pink Floyd album to feature Roger Waters, and is dedicated to Roger Waters ' father who died in World War II. The Final Cut was released in the UK on 21 March 1983, and in the US on 2 April, it reached number one in the UK, surpassing The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. It was less successful in America, peaking at number six on the Billboard album charts. With over 1,000,000 units shipped in the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America certified Final Cut Platinum in May 1983. It was certified double platinum in 1997. ...more