Lot 12DOORS-SOFT PARADE-1969-FIRST PRESS (PROMO) USA-ELEKTRA-NMINT/NMINT

GENESIS-DUKE-1980-THE FIRST UK-CHARISMA -CBR101 PRESS. Matrices A-2/B-2. A rare British original in top condition. Duke is the tenth studio album by the British progrock band Genesis, and the second recorded by her as a trio, released on March 31, 1980. The recording of the album took place at Phil Collins' house, who was simultaneously working on his solo debut Face Value. According to Collins, he was "kind of obsessed with Duke." The compositions "Behind The Lines", "Duchess", "Guide Vocal", "Turn It On Again", "Duke's Travels" and "Duke's End" were originally a whole piece called "Duke Suite" with the central character Albert, but the band decided to split it up to avoid comparisons with 23-minute "Supper's Ready" from the album Foxtrot. This simplification reflected the group's departure from complex compositions, its desire to become more straightforward and well suited to the era of the 80s.  Duke became the band's first album to reach number one in the UK charts. In the same year, Duke received platinum status at home, and in 1988 — in the USA In support of the album, a tour of Britain and North America was arranged from April to June 1980, which began with a tour of 40 concerts in the UK, where all 106,000 tickets were sold within a few hours of going on sale ...more

ALEXEY RYBNIKOV-ROCK OPERA JUNO AND AVOS-1980-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-MELODIA-C60-18627. "Juno and Avos" is a rock opera by Alexey Rybnikov (music) and Andrey Voznesensky (libretto). The premiere, directed by Mark Zakharov, took place on July 9, 1981 on the stage of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater, where the performance, which has become a kind of business card of Lenkom, took place In parallel with the work on the performance, an audio version of the opera with other performers was recorded in Lenkom in 1980. The first public listening of the recorded work took place on December 9, 1980 in the Church of the Intercession in Fily (Moscow). However, due to censorship obstacles, the album of two stereo records was released by the company" Melody " only in 1982 (number C60 18627-30 (2LP)).  ...more

ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA-SAME-1968-THE FIRST PRESS OF UK-DIRECTION-S8-63300. A very rare original of the cult album of the British psycho-prog band.  Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, at various times also known as "Velvet Opera", was a British rock band that operated in the late 1960s. The band members, Richard Hudson, John Ford and Paul Brett, disbanded after two albums in 1970. Later they became members of The Strawbs, Hudson Ford and Stretch.  ...more

ROLLING STONES-BIG HITS (HIGH TIDE AND GREEN GRASS)-1966-ORIGINAL PRESS 1968 UK-DECCA -TXS101. Matrices XZAL-7503-4W, XZAL-7504-3W. A rare stereo British original press of the iconic ROLLING STONES album.  ROLLING STONES. Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is the first compilation album by The Rolling Stones. With various covers and track listings, it was released on March 28, 1966 on London Records in the US and on November 4, 1966 on Decca Records in the UK. The American edition focused on songs from 1964 and 1965 with two new tunes: the recent "19th Nervous Breakdown" and the re-recorded "Time Is on My Side" with a guitar intro. The British version covered a longer period, starting with the band's first A-side single in 1963, "Come On", and ending with several songs from 1966, including the recent hit "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" The album reached number three on the US Billboard 200 chart.[1] and the fourth place in the UK albums chart.[2] It remained on the chart for 99 weeks in the US, where the RIAA certified the album as double platinum, which meant more than two million copies sold. ...more

ZERO-A SONG ABOUT UNREQUITED LOVE FOR THE MOTHERLAND-1991-FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-FEELEE-FL3-004.  A rare original of the cult album. "Song of unrequited love for the Motherland" is the fourth album of the band "Zero", released in 1991. It is considered the best creation of the group, it contains all the main hits for the entire period of creativity: "Russian rock 'n' Roll", "I'm walking, smoking", "Man and Cat", "Song about a real Indian", "Trams were driving down the street", "Lenin Street" ... Almost all songs, except the title instrumental, were included in radio rotation, most remain on the air until now pore. And this is the only album of the classical period, songs from which are generally heard on the radio, except for informal and unofficial Internet stations. At the same time, "Song about ..." is not an electric album, but an acoustic one; in full—fledged electricity, with percussion and weighted sound, only one song is made here — "You're a brake". Since the release of this record, and in many ways thanks to it, the group "Zero" has entered the so-called "first echelon" of Russian rock, becoming one of the leaders of Russian rock music. And it was from this time, ironically, that the decline of the collective began. The musicians began to abuse alcohol and drugs, which led to the well-known tragic events in the biography of Fyodor Chistyakov, who found himself in a psychiatric hospital. In addition, creative differences between the musicians played a role, and this led to a temporary split in the composition. After all these twists and turns, the band was unable to consolidate its success in subsequent albums, but the CD "Song of Unrequited Love for the Motherland" still remains one of the strongest and most influential works in Russian rock music, and "Zero" is one of the main groups of Russian rock. ...more