UK & Europe

Sleeve, labels and inserts

• Standard jewel case, opened.
• No front sticker. Folder 94's copy carries the round black IMC666 multimedia sticker; this one's front is bare, which is part of why the two are separate folders.
• Printed in E.U. on the inlay, where folder 94's says MADE IN HOLLAND. Same barcode, same price code, different printing.
• Tray card - carries COMPACT DISC DIGITAL AUDIO devices in two corners and no moulding code in frame; folder 94's tray carries a TM05... code and no such device.

What distinguishes this pressing

• The plant name etched in the ring, EMI SWINDON - the actual discriminator. Read directly off the disc on 2026-09-07: 496864 0 . 1 : 2 : 6 EMI SWINDON, Mastering SID Code IFPI L041. Discogs records 13974018's variant 2 as 496864 0 1:2:6 EMI SWINDON - the same string, save for a separating dot the owner's reading carries and Discogs' own transcription does not - and the other candidate, 7097147, is pressed at EMI Uden, its eight variants all beginning EMI UDEN 4968640 instead, an entirely different plant named in plain words in the etching.
• The round bel BIEM device on the disc - what puts this copy on a different pair of rows from folder 94, whose disc reads BEL/BIEM/ S.I.A.E. Read off a native crop of both discs, which is the only reason the two copies were separated at all.
• Printed in E.U. on the inlay - a second, independent difference from folder 94's MADE IN HOLLAND, on the same line of the same catalogue block.
• The absence of the IMC666 sticker - recorded because it is what identified folder 94, and because its absence here is checked on a photograph of the whole front rather than assumed.
• The boxed EMI device on the disc - excludes 7400798, the 2014 Parlophone repress, which is the only other row in this master carrying a bel BIEM device. Read off the same native crop as the rights society.
• Barcode 7 24349 68640 3, UK: 496 8640 and PM 520 - the match axis. Carried by both candidates and by six other European rows besides.
• What separates the two candidates - the pressing plant, which each row's matrix strings name in full. No frame in this folder's photographs shows the mirror ring, so nothing of the kind was claimed from a photograph; the plant was instead read directly off the object under raking light, and is named above and in the closing section.

• Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
• Disc: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches or disc-face damage in these photographs.