Lot 71DIRE STRAITS-BROTHERS IN ARMS-1985-FIRST PRESS HOLLAND-VERTIGO-NMINT/NMINT

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL-BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER-1970-THE FIRST UK PRESS-CBS-S63699. A rare British original of the iconic album.Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, released in January 1970 on Columbia Records. Bridge consists of two of the duo's most critically and commercially successful songs, "Bridge over Troubled Water" and "The Boxer", which was included in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Critically and commercially successful, the album topped the charts in more than ten countries and won two Grammy Awards, plus four more for the title song. About 25 million records were sold, and the album was included in various lists, including 51 places in the 500 greatest albums of all time according to Rolling Stone magazine. ...more

MAYALL'S JOHN BLUESBREAKERS-CHICAGO LINE-1988-FIRST PRESS UK/EU GERMANY-ENTENTE-5727008-2 A very rare original of British blues monsters.  John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers were an English blues rock band led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, The Bluesbreakers' greatest legacy is an incubator for British rock and blues musicians. Many of the most famous bands that emerged in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s had members who once went through the Bluesbreakers, forming the basis of British blues music, Among those who worked in Bluesbreaker are Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce (Cream), Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie (Fleetwood Mac), Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones), Aynsley Dunbar (Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention) and many other musicians. Chicago line is an album released after a ten-year hiatus, but created with the same blues energy as 30 years ago. Highly appreciated by critics and collectors. ...more

PRINCE -SING "O" THE TIMES (2LP'S)-1987-FIRST PRESS UK/EU-GERMANY-WARNER-WX88/925577-1. A very rare original of the cult album. Sign "☮" The Times (pronounced Sign of the Times) is the 9th album by American singer and musician Prince. Released on March 31, 1987. The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) called the album "Prince's best album, the most holistic example of the breadth of his artistry, and perhaps the best album of the 1980s." The reviewer of Afisha Daily in a retrospective review gave the album a similar assessment. In 2017, the album Sign "☮" the Times was inducted into the Grammy Award Hall of Fame. The album reached number six on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) four months after its release. It also entered the top 10 in Austria, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the UK and took first place in Switzerland. "Sign o' the Times", "U Got the Look" and "I Can never Take Your Man's Place" all made the top 10 hits of the Billboard Hot 100. After Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at number 20. ...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

BLACK SABBATH-MASTER OF REALITY (+POSTER)-1971-FIRST UK PRESS-VERTIGO SWIRL-6360050.  Matrix A-1/B-1 is a very rare original of the cult album. Master of Reality is the third studio album by the British rock band Black Sabbath, recorded by producer Roger Baingiep at the Record Plant Studio (Los Angeles, California) and released on July 21, 1971. The album rose to number 5 on the UK Album Charts and to number 8 on the Billboard 200. It is ranked 298th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 best albums of all time. ...more