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SAVAGE ROSE-REFUGEE-1971-THE FIRST PRESS (PROMO) GERMANY-RCA - LSP10353. A rare original of the Danish prog band.  According to critics and collectors, this album is the pinnacle of the band's creativity. ...more

DONNA SUMMER - BAD GIRL (2LP)-1979-FIRST PRESS USA-CASABLANCA-NBLP27150. A rare American original of the queen of soul disco. Bad Girls is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Donna Summer, released on April 25, 1979 on the label Casablanca Records. Originally released as a double album, Bad Girls became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed album of Summer's career. In addition, it was her last studio album on the label Casablanca Records. Bad Girls reached the top of the US Billboard 200 chart, where it lasted six weeks. Bad Girls received universal acclaim and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) just a week after its release. At the 1980 Grammy Awards, Bad Girls was nominated for Album of the Year, and Hot Stuff was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. In addition, "Bad Girls" was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Female R/B Vocal Performance, while "Dim All the Lights" was nominated for Best Disco Recording. Bad Girls is considered one of the greatest disco albums. Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 23 in the Women's 50 Greatest Albums of All Time.  ...more

SANDRA-LONG PLAY-1985-FIRST PRESS GERMANY-VIRGIN-207356. A rare original of the cult disco album. The Long Play is the debut studio album by German singer Sandra, released on November 11, 1985 by Virgin Records. The album was a great commercial success and spawned Sandra's signature number one single "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena", as well as the international top five single"In the Heat of the Night". ...more

CAMEL-MIRAGE-1974-THE FIRST PRESS OF UK-DERAM-SML1107 Matrix A-P2W/B-P2W. A rare British original of the cult prog band. Mirage is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Camel, released on March 1, 1974. It includes songs such as "The White Rider", "Lady Fantasy" and "Supertwister", which include a demonstration of Andrew Latimer's flute. The album was ranked No. 51 in the Top 100 Prog Albums of All Time by the readers of Prog magazine in 2014. Prog Sphere considered Mirage to be the band's best album, writing that it is a prog classic that everyone who is a fan of progressive rock should own. ...more

MATIA BAZAR-MELANCHOLIA-1985-THE FIRST PRESS OF ITALY-CDG-ARLP12426. A rare Italian original by a cult rock-pop band. The ninth album by the Italian band. The first album with the new keyboardist Sergio Cossu. The album's title is inspired by Jean Paul Sartre's novel Nausea, as Sartre wanted to call it Melancholia. "Melancholia" becomes an extremely successful album. The song "Souvenir", this time dedicated to the French capital, although it takes only 10th place in Sanremo, but again receives the "Critics Award", reaches 8th place in the national charts. The song "I Feel You" ("Ti sento"), reached number 1 in Italian and Belgian, number 2 in Dutch and number 11 in German charts in 1986, and became a worldwide hit, including in English-speaking countries, recorded in English ("I Feel You"). The English version of Ti sento is I Feel You, a single that was also released successfully in Italy. Thanks to the new electronic sound, Ti sento became a classic of the band and one of the most famous songs of the 80s. In 1985, the band made a long tour of Japan, France, Germany, other European and Latin American countries, and also visited the USSR for the first time. ...more