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CARAVAN-BLIND DOG AT ST. DUSTANS-1976-THE FIRST UK PRESS -BTM-.1007 .  A rare British original of a cult album. Blind Dog at St. Dunstans is the seventh studio album by the Canterbury rock band Caravan. It was released in 1976. This album sounds lighter than previous Caravan releases, it has more short, "pop" songs. The lightness of the sound is partly due to the fact that there is a lot of Pie Hastings in the album. He wrote and performed eight of the nine songs. In addition, Jan Schelhaas replaced Dave Sinclair on keyboards, abandoning long organ parts in favor of piano and synthesizer. ...more

DEF LEPPARD-HYSTERIA-1987-FIRST PRESS EU-HOLLAND-MERCURY-830675-1. Rare original European released for all of Europe. Hysteria (Rus. "Hysteria") is the fourth Studio album by the band Def Leppard, released in 1987. Made available in both formats, LP and CD. Today it is the most popular album reached the charts Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, released 6 singles became hits and sold 20 million copies. Hysteria is on the 21st position in the rating "100 best rock albums of all time" by the magazine Classic Rock and 464 th place in the list of 500 best albums of all time by the magazine Rolling Stone. ...more

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-THE QUIET ZONE-1977-FIRST UK PRESS-CHARISMA-CAS1131. Of The Matrix A-1/B-2. Rare original cult British prog group. The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome is the eighth Studio album by the British rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released 2 September 1977. The last Studio recording until the reunification of the team in 2005. In 1976 the group left two musicians of the classic lineup of Van der Graaf Generator: Hugh Banton and David Jackson (who, however, participation in the recording of two tracks). To replace them came the former in the group until 1970, NIC Potter and Graham Smith. ...more

KATE BUSH- HOUNDS OF LOVE-1985-FIRST PRESS EU-EMI-0622403841. A very rare European original of a cult album. Hounds of Love is the fifth studio album by British singer and songwriter Kate Bush, released on September 16, 1985 by EMI Records. Recorded during 1983-1985, the album became the second in the singer's discography, which she produced independently. The album was accompanied by four singles: "Running Up That Hill", "Cloudbusting", "Hounds of Love" and "The Big Sky". "Running Up That Hill" has become one of Kate Bush's most popular songs. Hounds of Love was the singer's most commercially successful studio album. It became Bush's second album to top the UK national chart, after Never for Ever, and also reached the top ten of the charts in Australia, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Sweden. The album became the first in Bush's career to reach the top thirty of the US Billboard 200. The album was certified double platinum for 600,000 copies sold in the UK, platinum for 500,000 copies in Germany and platinum for 100,000 copies in Canada. The total worldwide circulation of Hounds of Love was 3 million copies. The album was nominated at the 1986 BRIT Awards in the Best British Album category, and Bush was nominated in the Best British Artist and Best British Single categories for the song "Running Up That Hill". In 2022, the album became popular again, entered many charts around the world and topped the American Billboard Top Alternative Albums chart, after the song "Running Up That Hill" appeared in the Netflix series "Very Strange Things". ...more

SLADE-PLAY IT LOUD-1970- SECOND PRESS UK-POLYDOR -2383 026 Matrices A-2/B-2. BARN PUBLISHING  A very rare British edition of the iconic album.  Play It Loud is the second studio album by the British rock band Slade. It was released by the Polydor label on November 28, 1970, but failed to chart. The album, produced by Chas Chandler, was the first released under the Slade name since the band's 1969 debut album was released under the Ambrose Slade name. In 1973, the album would achieve commercial success in Canada after Polydor was released there, peaking at number 40. In 1975, he received the silver status. ...more