Venezuela

Sides swapped - LADO A carries the UK side B. Legal deposit nb-88-4123 matches Discogs.

Catalogue: EMI-25154
Label: EMI - pressed by Sono-Rodven
Released: 1988
Confidence: Confirmed the legal-deposit number on the label matches this release exactly
Reference: Discogs 2496293
Median sale: DKK 150
Sale range: DKK 75-293
On sale now: 11, from DKK 228
Last sold: 4 February 2025

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.

No run-out groove photograph exists in this folder.

Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout

As Discogs records them for release 2496293. Green: in my collection (0 of 2). Red: missing.

✗	Matrix / Runout (Side A runout)	`EMI 25145 A R. MOPO RV28GW`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Side B runout)	`EMI 25154 B MOPO RV28GW`

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 7 of them

Label: EMI-25154

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Label: LADO A - carrying 1-SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON. (Septimo Hijo del Septimo Hijo)(Harris). 2-THE PROPHECY.(La Profecia)(Murray/Harris). 3-THE CLAIRVOYANT.(The Clairvoyant)(Harris). 4-ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG.(Solo los Jovenes Buenos Mueren)(Harris/Dickinson)

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Label: LADO B - carrying 1-MOONCHILD. (Hijo de Luna), 2-INFINITE DREAMS. (Sueños Infinitos), 3-CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS.(Puedo Jugar Con Locuras), 4-THE EVIL THAT MEN DO. (El Mal Que Hacen Los Hombres)

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Label: D.L:nb-88-4123 R.V. 18 G.W.

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Label rim: HECHO EN VENEZUELA · DISTRIBUIDO POR RODVEN DISCOS … HECHO POR SONO-RODVEN

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Label rim: QUEDAN RESERVADOS TODOS LOS DERECHOS DEL AUTOR Y DEL PRODUCTOR DE FONOGRAMAS. ESTA PROHIBIDA LA COPIA, LOCACION (ALQUILER) Y EJECUCION PUBLICA DE LOS FONOGRAMAS

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Outer sleeve - single, standard artwork, locally printed.
Labels - plain cream paper, black text with red rim lettering and a red EMI logo at the foot. No artwork at all: a wholly local design, unrelated to EMI's international globe label.

What distinguishes this pressing

The sides are swapped. LADO A carries what every other copy in this collection presses as side B - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Prophecy, The Clairvoyant, Only The Good Die Young - and LADO B carries the Moonchild side. This is the only copy here that reverses the running order.
Bilingual track titles, English first with a Spanish translation in brackets after each. Compare folder 8 (Argentina), which prints the titles in Spanish only.
HECHO POR SONO-RODVEN - pressed by Sonorodven, a Venezuelan plant, rather than by EMI.
EMI-25154 - a purely local catalogue number, unrelated to the 79 0258 1 family used across Europe.
D.L:nb-88-4123 - a Venezuelan legal-deposit number printed on the label.

Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

**A1**Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
**A2**The Prophecy
**A3**The Clairvoyant
**A4**Only The Good Die Young

Side B

**B1**Moonchild
**B2**Infinite Dreams
**B3**Can I Play With Madness
**B4**The Evil That Men Do

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar, synth · Steve Harris - bass, string synth · Nicko McBrain - drums.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York. Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich. Sleeve illustration, concept and design by Derek Riggs (with Rod Smallwood). Inner-sleeve photograph by Ross Halfin. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 576952, the UK original, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. The producer, publisher and copyright lines are independently corroborated by this copy's own label, quoted above.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

Sleeve: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no splits or seam separation visible in these shots.
Vinyl: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches, warping or edge damage in these photographs. The labels are clean and unmarked.

Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.

What is settled, and what is not

Confirmed. Beyond country and catalogue number, the legal-deposit number nb-88-4123 printed on the label matches the Depósito Legal Discogs records for release 2496293 - a release-specific cross-check. Discogs also records the same reversed side order for this release, which the labels independently confirm. It is the only Venezuelan vinyl edition listed.

Standing caveat: this method cannot exclude a pressing absent from Discogs altogether.

Still open - the stampers. Discogs records this release's etching as EMI 25145 A R. MOPO RV28GW on side A and EMI 25154 B MOPO RV28GW on side B. (Quoted from Discogs as what to look for; no run-out was photographed, so nothing about this copy's etching is claimed here. Note that Discogs' side-A string reads 25145 where the catalogue number is 25154 - that looks like a transcription slip in the database, and is worth checking against the record.)