Lot 18CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL-WILLY AND THE POOR BOYS-1969-FIRST PRESS USA-FANTASY-NMINT/NMINT

ARIA-PLAYING WITH FIRE-1990-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6029907000. A rare original of the cult album. Playing with Fire is the fourth studio album by Aria. The first album of the band with the participation of drummer Alexander Manyakin and without a permanent producer Viktor Vekshtein. The album was successful and sold 835,000 copies, although this is much less than the previous album "Hero of Asphalt", which sold at least 1.5 million copies. ...more

URIAH HEEP-FIREFLY-1977-FIRST PRESS UK-BRONZE ILPS9483. matrices A-1/B-1 . A very rare British original of the iconic album. Firefly is the 10th studio album by British rock band Uriah Heep, released in February 1977 on Bronze Records in the United Kingdom and Warner Bros. Records in the United States. It was the band's first album without David Byron, the former lead vocalist and founding member of the band, who was replaced by John Lawton. Bassist Trevor Bolder made his debut with Uriah Heep on this album and, apart from an 18-month hiatus in the early 1980s, he was a member of this band until his death in 2013. The album was successful and placed in the top 20 of the European charts. In the Billboard 200 Rock Albums of All Time, it ranks 166th. ...more

BORIS RUBASCHKIN-RUSSISCHE STRASSEN LIEDER-1969-FIRST PRESS SWITZERLAND-PLPS30087. A very rare original of a famous artist of Russian emigration .   Boris Semyonovich Rubashkin (real name-Chernorubashkin) He began studying vocals and continued to sing in a restaurant in the early 60s, he met with a producer, with whom he signed a contract for the first four records. The first record with Russian songs performed by the singer was released in 1965. In 1967, the artist won the competition and received his first engagement as a baritone at the Salzburg Opera. At this point, his work in the restaurant ended, and he left for the professional opera stage. The singer moves from Vienna to Salzburg. He was already 35 years old when he began his singing career. With the beginning of his solo opera career, the surname Chernorubashkin was shortened to "Rubashkin" - this was more profitable from a commercial point of view, because for a Western listener, his real name sounded too difficult. From 1967 to 1976, Boris Rubashkin worked at the Salzburg Opera (first baritone), and toured extensively. Since the early 70s, the singer began to successfully perform Russian songs and romances in his programs. Russian Russian singer-songwriter Rubashkin made a musical arrangement based on the famous Russian song "Katyusha" in the early 70s, commissioned by a French publisher, and performed his famous Russian modern dance "Kazachok" on stage, which became a worldwide hit and made his performer a millionaire. Records with different versions of "Kazachka" became "gold" and "platinum". More than 10 million CDs have been sold worldwide. European newspapers of that period wrote: "Vienna gave the world two fashionable dances-Strauss 'Waltz' and Rubashkin's 'Kazachok'...".  ...more

DEF LEPPARD-RETRO ACTIVE-1993-FIRST PRESS UK/EU GERMANY-PHONOGRAM-518395-1. A very rare original of the cult album. Retro Active is an album by English rock band Def Leppard, released in 1993. The album includes tweaked versions of the B-sides and previously unreleased recordings from the band's recording sessions from 1984 to 1993. The album peaked at number 9 on the Billboard 200 and number 6 on the UK Albums Chart. ...more

SUGARCUBES (PRE-BJORK) -HERE TODAY, TOMORROW NEXT WEEK! - 1989-FIRST PRESS UK-One Little Indian-TPLP15. A rare British original of the band with the famous singer BJORK. It is the second studio album by the Icelandic alternative rock band the Sugarcubes, released in September 1989 on Elektra Records, and peaked at number 70 on the Billboard 200, number 15 on the UK Albums Chart, and number 1 on the UK Indie Albums Chart.   ...more