Lot 21ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA-SAME-1968-FIRST PRESS UK-DIRECTION-NMINT/NMINT

JACKSON, MICHAEL-THRILLER-1982-FIRST PRESS USA-EPIC-QE38112. Matrices A-PAL38112-2DH/B-PBL-38112-2BD. PITMAN PRESSING. A rare American original of the King of pop music. Cover with credits co-produced by M. Jackson (second press). Thriller is the sixth studio album by American musician Michael Jackson. Released on Epic Records on November 30, 1982.Thriller has been recorded in genres such as pop, rock, post-disco, rhythm and blues and funk.  All seven singles released from Thriller hit the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In just a year, Thriller became the best-selling album of all time and remains so to this day.At the 1984 Grammy Awards, the record received eight awards. In 2003, Thriller was ranked 20th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". The album was included in the Library of Congress as a "culturally significant record".In 2012, critics of Slant Magazine ranked Thriller at the top of their list of "The Best Albums of the 1980s". ...more

GRADSKY, ALEXANDER-FLUTE AND PIANO-1988-FIRST PRESS USSR-MELODIA-C6027091005. A rare original of the cult album. Flute and piano (vocal suite to poems by V. Mayakovsky and B. Pasternak, music by A. Gradsky, recorded in 1983 by 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

BEE GEES-CUCUMBER CASTLE-1970-FIRST PRESS UK-POLYDOR-2383010. A rare original of the cult album. Cucumber Castle is the seventh studio album by the British band Bee Gees, released in April 1970. Cucumber Castle is the only Bee Gees album recorded without Robin Gibb. The singer left the band at that time for a solo career and did not take part in the work on the record. His voice can be heard in several songs, but he is not even mentioned in the credits. Instead, some vocal parts are performed by the British soul singer P. P. Arnold. The album was accompanied by the release of two singles. First of all, this is "Don't Forget to Remember", which took second place in the UK chart in August, as well as "I.O.I.O.". According to the autobiographical book Tales of the Brothers Gibb, the record itself rose in the United Kingdom only to 54th place, while in the USA it could not rise above 94- th lines. ...more

HAWKINS, COLEMAN-THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE-1961-FIRST PRESS 1967 (MONO) UK-XTRA-XTRA5031. A rare British original of the cult album. Things Ain't What They Used to Be is an album of the first annual prestigious swing festival featuring two stellar bands, one of which includes Coleman Hawkins, Hilton Jefferson, Jimmy Hamilton and Joe Newman, and the other is led by Al Sears with Buddy Tate, Pee Wee Russell and Joe Thomas, which was recorded in 1961. It was first released on the Swingville label as a double album, and was later reissued as two separate discs with Hawkins' name. ...more

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-68-71-1972- THE FIRST UK PRESS IS CHARISMA-CS-2. Matrices A-1U/B-1U Masterdisc -REYS. A rare British original of the best tracks from the first albums of the legendary band. The edition is valuable for collectors as it contains the track "NECROMANCER" previously unreleased. ...more