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PROCOL HARUM-EXOTIC BIRDS AND FRUIT-1974-FIRST UK PRESS-CHRYSALIS-CHR1058. Original rare British Exotic Birds and Fruit is the seventh Studio album by British progressive rock band Procol Harum . It was released in 1974. Album cover - Jakob Bogdani, the famous Hungarian artist, whose paintings dedicated to exotic birds and fruit. The album reached number 86 in the charts albums Billboard . In Denmark it reached a high of 9 after the release and almost a year later, in early 1975, she re-entered the Top 20, peaking at # 19. ...more

ROLLING STONES-SOME GIRLS-1978-FIRST PRESS UK-ROLLING STONES- CUN39108. A5U/B-3U matrices.  A rare British original in the five color version of the cover.  Some Girls is the fourteenth British and sixteenth American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978 on the band's own label. The longplay reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and became one of the band's most successful albums in the United States, with over six million copies sold. The CD received rave reviews from the press, many reviewers called it the Rolling Stones' return to the roots and their best album since Exile on Main St. ...more

ABBA-VOYAGE-2021-THE FIRST EU/USA PRESS-POLAR-602438614813. A rare original on black vinyl released after a 40-year hiatus. Voyage is the ninth and final studio album by the Swedish pop band ABBA, released on November 5, 2021. The album includes ten songs written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. This is the band's first album with new material in forty years. Voyage debuted at the top of the charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It also became the band's most popular studio album in Canada and the United States (as well as their first album to reach the top ten in the latter country), debuting at number two on the charts of both countries. The album was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards in 2023, as well as for "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down": the former was nominated for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2022. This year (the band's first Grammy nomination), and the second — for "Record of the Year" and "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group" at the Grammy Awards in 2023.[12] The album has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. ...more

DEEP PURPLE-SHADES OF DEEP PURPLE-1968-FIRST PRESS USA-TETRAGRAMMATON- T-102, Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released in July 1968 on the Tetragrammaton label in the USA and in September 1968 on the Parlophone label in the UK. The band, originally called Roundabout, was the idea of former Seahawks drummer Chris Curtis, who invited Jon Lord and Richie Blackmore to join the band before leaving the project. In March 1968, the band was joined by vocalist and frontman Rod Evans, as well as bassist Nick Simper and drummer Ian Pace. After two months of rehearsals, Shades of Deep Purple was recorded in just three days in May 1968. It contains four original songs and four cover versions, carefully arranged with classical interludes added to make the sound more psychedelic. Stylistically, the music is close to psychedelic rock and progressive rock, two genres whose audience was constantly growing in the late 1960s. The album was not widely recognized in the UK, where very few copies were sold and it did not chart. On the other hand, he was a success in the US, and the single "Hush", an energetic rock track written by Joe South and originally recorded by Billy Joe Royal, became very popular at the time and reached number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. ...more

SCORPIONS-BEST OF ROCKERS N' BALLADS-1989-FIRST PRESS UK-HARVEST-EMD1014. A rare British original album featuring the best ballad and rock tracks from albums from 1978-1988. Scorpions is a German English-language rock band formed in 1965 in Hanover. The band's style is characterized by both classic hard rock and lyrical guitar ballads. ...more