Folder 135

Brazil

Brazil, and the first of four. Cover, insert and label are identical across every Brazilian pressing of this record - Discogs says so outright. The year stamped in the deadwax, ℗ 1986, is the only thing that tells them apart, and this one has it.

Catalogue: 31C 064 240597
Label: EMI-Odeon - manufactured and distributed by Fonobrás, Distribuidora Fonográfica Brasileira Ltda.
Released: 1986
Confidence: Confirmed
Why this grade
Brazil is certain from the Fonobrás manufacturing line, the Super Luxo price class and the yellow EMI-Odeon labels reading 31C 064 240597 A and B. Four Brazilian LPs sit under this master, and Discogs states plainly that the cover, insert and label are the same on all of them - “This can only be distinguished by the matrix number that has the release year”. Both run-outs here carry ℗ 1986: 240 597 1 01 ℗ 1986 200 and 240 597 2 01 ℗ 1986 200, matching 1657221's own recorded matrix on both sides. The two 1991 pressings carry P1991 in the same position, and the 1994 one carries 02 P1991 on a BMG Ariola label this copy does not have
Reference: Discogs 1657221
Median sale: DKK 183 (kept from 2026-09-23)
Sale range: DKK 63-517
On sale now: 26, from DKK 90
Last sold: 9 July 2026

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photo named beside it, except where the source column says otherwise - those rows come from the record itself, by reading it or by playing it, and each says which.

Run-out photographed on both sides across thirteen frames, and read off the record by eye as well. Side one reads 240 597 1 01 ℗ 1986 200, side two 240 597 2 01 ℗ 1986 200 - lightly etched, with 1986 and 200 clear in several frames and the circled ℗ legible beside the year - the by-eye reading writes that mark as a plain P, which is a keyboard limit rather than a different character. The year in that string is the entire identification: it is the only thing anywhere on this record that is not identical across all four Brazilian pressings.

Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout

As Discogs records them for release 1657221. Green: in my collection (4 of 4). Red: missing.

✓	Matrix / Runout (Side A label)	`31C 064 240597 A` — this copy
✓	Matrix / Runout (Side B label)	`31C 064 240597 B` — this copy
✓	Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched)	`240 597 1 01 ℗ 1986 200` — this copy
✓	Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched)	`240 597 2 01 ℗ 1986 200` — this copy

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 17 of them

Front cover: single sleeve, IRON MAIDEN / SOMEWHERE IN TIME

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Rear cover, sticker at the spine: 31C 064 240597 / SUPER LUXO

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Rear cover, foot: FABRICADO E DISTRIBUIDO POR FONOBRÁS — DISTRIBUIDORA FONOGRÁFICA BRASILEIRA LTDA. ESTRADA DO GABINAL, 1521, RJ CGC 29.010.519/0001-32 sob licença de EMI-ODEON FONOG. IND. E ELETRÔNICA LTDA. INDÚSTRIA BRASILEIRA

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Rear cover, same line: ℗ 1986 · … DE CULTURA TAMBÉM EM CASSETE

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Rear cover, sleeve print code: PL860385 - the trailing digit sits on a crease

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Rear cover, foot: EMI Records Ltd. · Direct Metal DMM™ Mastering · DMM is a trademark of TELDEC

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Insert, lyric side, upper right: 31C 064 240597

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Insert, reverse: the band on the Arizona roadside, yellow-framed

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Label, side one: 31C 064 240597 A · SUPER LUXO · Sob licença de EMI-ODEON Fonog. Ind. e Eletrônica Ltda · STEREO · ℗ 1986

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Label, side one, tracks with Brazilian work numbers: 1. (62.916.572) CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIME (Steve Harris) 7:22 - 2. (62.916.564) WASTED YEARS (Adrian Smith) 5:06 - 3. (62.916.556) SEA OF MADNESS (Adrian Smith) 5:42 - 4. (62.916.548) HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Steve Harris) 7:24

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Label, side one: Músicas administradas pela Ed.Itaipu · Produzido, gravado e mixado por Martin “Masa” Birch · ℗ 1986 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.

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Label, perimeter: TODOS OS DIREITOS DO PRODUTOR FONOGRÁFICO E DO PROPRIETÁRIO DA OBRA GRAVADA SÃO RESERVADOS. A REPRODUÇÃO, A LOCAÇÃO, EXECUÇÃO PÚBLICA E RADIOTELEDIFUSÃO DESTE DISCO ESTÃO PROIBIDAS • FABRICADO E DISTRIBUIDO POR FONOBRÁS, DISTRIBUIDORA FONOGRÁFICA BRASILEIRA LTDA. ESTRADA DO GABINAL, 1521, RJ CGC 29.010.519/0001-32

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Label, side two: 31C 064 240597 B · SUPER LUXO · tracks 1. (62.916.530) THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER … 4. (62.916.505) ALEXANDER THE GREAT

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Run-out, side one, in fragments: 240 597 1 · 01 · ℗ · 1986 · 200

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Run-out, side two, in fragments: 240 597 2 · 01 · ℗ · 1986 · 200

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Both run-outs, off the record itself, quoted as written: Side A - 240 597 1 01 P 1986 200 / Side B - 240 597 2 01 P 1986 200. The P is a plain keyboard P for the ℗ the photographs resolve as a circled one; nothing else differs

read by eye by the owner; filed in this folder as runout - eye.txt

The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Single sleeve - opened along part of the bottom seam, with wear at the top right corner and the 31C 064 240597 / SUPER LUXO sticker still on the rear.
Printed insert, double-sided: lyrics and credits on one face, the Arizona band photograph on the other, carrying 31C 064 240597.
Labels - pale yellow EMI-Odeon, black text, orange rim notice and an orange boxed EMI at the foot. Nothing like the dark international artwork the European and Venezuelan copies use.
Vinyl - black, both sides, in a plain polythene sleeve.

What distinguishes this pressing

℗ 1986 etched into both run-outs. The three later Brazilian pressings carry P1991 in the same position; this is the only thing that separates the four.
Brazilian work numbers on the labels - (62.916.572), (62.916.564) and so on, one per track, alongside Músicas administradas pela Ed.Itaipu.
SUPER LUXO on both labels and on the rear sticker - the Brazilian price class, printed as part of the catalogue block.
Full catalogue number on the labels, 31C 064 240597 A and B, which is what Discogs uses to separate the first and second pressings from the third's short 240597.
Yellow EMI-Odeon labels, no BMG Ariola credit - the 1994 pressing is defined by carrying one.

Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

A1Caught Somewhere In Time
A2Wasted Years
A3Sea Of Madness
A4Heaven Can Wait

Side B

B1The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
B2Stranger In A Strange Land
B3Deja-Vu
B4Alexander The Great

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

Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound. Bass, bass synth and drums recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau; guitars, vocals and guitar synth recorded at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum; mixed at Electric Lady Studios, New York. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; sleeve concept by Derek Riggs and Rod Smallwood. Inner sleeve photograph by Aaron Rapoport. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 1701390, 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.

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, on the one string that differs.

Brazil, catalogue 31C 064 240597 and the Super Luxo class are certain from the sleeve, the sticker and the labels. That leaves four Brazilian LPs, and Discogs is unusually blunt about how alike they are: “Cover, insert and label are exactly the same as the first pressing… This can only be distinguished by the matrix number that has the release year 1991.”

How the other candidates were ruled out

Candidate	Verdict
1657221 - first pressing, 1986	Matches. Recorded run-outs `240 597 1 01 ℗ 1986 200` and `240 597 2 01 ℗ 1986 200`; both sides here read exactly that.
25797052 - second, 1991	Ruled out on the year. Its run-outs are `240 597 1 01 P1991` / `240 597 2 01 P1991`.
10319292 - third, 1991	Ruled out twice: `240597 A 1 02 P 1991` in the deadwax, and short catalogue numbers on the labels where these carry the full `31C 064 240597 A`.
25893505 - fourth, 1994	Ruled out on the label, which Discogs describes as carrying `BMG Ariola`. These do not.

Standing caveat: this method cannot exclude a pressing absent from Discogs. The version list is incomplete by construction, so a single surviving candidate is a best match, not a proof of uniqueness.

Nothing material is open. The run-out was caught in fragments rather than one continuous frame, but 1986 and 200 are each legible in several separate shots on both sides, and the reading off the record agrees with them - allowing for the plain P a keyboard types where the record has a circled ℗.