Lot 102LAID BACK-PLAY IT STRAIGHT-1985-FIRST PRESS DANISH / HOLLAND - MEDLEY-NMINT/NMINT

CHARLES, RAY-IN PERSON-1960-THE FIRST PRESS (MONO) DK-ATLANTIC-8039. A rare Danish original of the iconic album. In Person is a live album recorded by Ray Charles on May 28, 1959, on a rainy night in Atlanta, Georgia, at Herndon Stadium of Morris Brown College. The album was recorded by the concert's sponsor, WAOK radio station. The radio station's leading disc jockey Zenas "Daddy" Sears recorded an album for the audience using a single microphone. The album is notable for its technical excellence in terms of the balance between the band, the singer and the audience, as well as the fact that it documents Ray Charles' jazzy R and B sound before he achieved great success. In 1999, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. ...more

WINGS-RED ROSE SPEEDWAY-1973-FIRST PRESS JAPAN-APPLE -EAP-80813 Rare Japanese original of the cult album. Red Rose Speedway is the second album by Paul McCartney and the Wings group he created (it is the fourth in Paul McCartney's discography outside and after his participation in The Beatles), released in 1973 by Apple Records after the relative commercial failure of Wings' debut album Wild Life (perhaps one of the reasons for this failure was that the authors-the performers of the album were the little—known band Wings, without mentioning in the band's name that it was McCartney's band). The album reached the 1st position on the Billboard 200 chart. ...more

ALAN PARSONS PROJECT-PYRAMID-1978-First Press UK-ARISTA-SPART1054 matrix A1/B1 Pyramid is the third studio album by the English art rock band "The Alan Parsons Project", released in 1978. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1978 in the category "Best Production Work in the genre of Modern Music". The main theme of the album was the Great Pyramid of Giza and ancient Egyptian culture, which were at the peak of popularity in the USA and Great Britain in those years ...more

MCCARTNEY, PAUL-PRESS TO PLAY-1986-FIRST JAPAN PRESS-ODEON -EPS91180. Rare Japan original. This album is considered to be sir Paul's most romantic album.Press to Play is the sixth solo Studio album Paul McCartney, released on 22 August 1986. After all, McCartney issued over the last three years (after released in 1983 Pipes of Peace) album again contained new songs McCartney. In the work on the album was attended by such famous musicians as guitarist Eric Stewart (ex-10cc; also co-wrote 6 of 10 songs in the main track list of the album), guitarist Pete Townsend (The Who), drummer Phil Collins (Genesis), percussionist ray Cooper. The co-producer of the album was Hugh Padgham (known for his work with Genesis and Phil Collins). The album was a big success in Britain -8 place album of the year in the United States - # 30 on the Billboard 200 in the different countries of Europe is located in 20 rows of the charts. ...more

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