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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

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

THE TIME MACHINE-YOU-2016-THE FIRST PRESS GERMANY-SINTEZ-SINTEZ-SRLP00118 is a very rare original of the cult Soviet group. "You" is the twelfth official studio album by the rock band "Time Machine", released on May 6, 2016. News that the band is working on a new album appeared in September 2015. It was reported that studio work is planned to begin in the winter in February 2016 and release the album in the spring of 2016. In March 2016, it became known that the album would consist of ten songs and should be released on May 25, the forty-seventh anniversary of the band. On the official pages of the band, there were requests for fans to send their selfies, which will later be used to design the album cover. On April 20, it became known that the upcoming album will be called "You". At the same time, a list of compositions was published. It includes the songs "Rats", "Mama" and "Here's the Edge", released in 2012 as singles, as well as "Strangers among Strangers", written in 1984, and "Where the Day is Bright", released in 1994 on the album "I Draw You". The rest of the songs were written during 2014-2015. ...more

ABBA-THE ALBUM-1977-FIRST PRESS SWEDEN-POLAR - POLS282. Rare original Swedish cult band. The Album is the fifth Studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, released in 1977. It is considered to be more "Americanized" compared to previous, as evidenced by the confessions of the group members and, indirectly, the success of the singles from the album in the American charts. ...more

DIRE STRAITS-BROTHERS IN ARMS1985-THE FIRST UK PRESS-VERTIGO - VERH25.A rare British original of Dire Straits' fifth studio album.  Multi-platinum and the most successful in creativity. ...more