Folder 175
US
Catalogue number 19V-49058 -- read in two places that agree, spine and hype sticker. Three rows in the version list carry it, all CMV Enterprises, so the number puts the copy in the CMV family rather than naming a row on its own.
What the record says
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 6 of them
Front of the slipcase through the wrap: IRON MAIDEN logo over the Derek Riggs Eddie-on-a-motorcycle artwork with the Union Flag, MAIDEN ENGLAND in a red stamp box, and a black hype sticker at lower left reading NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S. over 19V-49058
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Rear panel: fifteen-title programme MOONCHILD / THE EVIL THAT MEN DO / PRISONER / STILL LIFE / DIE WITH YOUR BOOTS ON / INFINITE DREAMS / KILLERS / CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS / HEAVEN CAN WAIT / WASTED YEARS / THE CLAIRVOYANT / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON / THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST / HALLOWED BE THY NAME / IRON MAIDEN, then DIRECTED AND EDITED BY STEVE HARRIS, SOUNDTRACK PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MARTIN BIRCH, SLEEVE ILLUSTRATION: DEREK RIGGS, RUNNING TIME 95 MINUTES, and Photography: Ross Halfin up the right edge
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Rear panel barcode block at native resolution: 0 4474 - 49058 - 3
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Rear panel print block at native resolution: Program: (C) 1989 EMI Records. Manufactured under license from Picture Music International / Package: (C) 1989 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd; below the rule the CMV ENTERPRISES triangle logo, 'Dolby' and the double-D symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, For non-commercial private exhibition in homes only. Any public performance, other use, or copying is strictly prohibited. All rights under copyright reserved, and at right CBS Music Video Enterprises / CBS Records Inc / P.O. Box 4450 / New York, NY 10101
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Spine, lower half: VHS hi-fi STEREO, the double-D mark with DOLBY SYSTEM ON LINEAR TRACKS, and the catalogue number 19V-49058; the shrink-wrap seam runs the length of the spine
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Spine, upper half: CMV ENTERPRISES triangle logo, a thumbnail of the front artwork, then IRON MAIDEN / MAIDEN ENGLAND reading downwards; the wrap is unbroken over the top edge
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Sealed -- the shrink-wrap is intact in every photograph, with its seam down the spine and folded over the top edge. Nothing below describes a surface that could not be read through it, and the cassette itself has never been seen.
- Slipcase -- a printed cardboard slipcase in the US style, not a library case: artwork front, tracklist and credits rear, CMV logo and title on the spine.
- Hype sticker -- a black rounded-rectangle sticker on the front, under the wrap, with the catalogue number printed on it.
- No run-out or mirror ring exists for this format, so none was photographed or read.
- Condition -- sealed; the wrap shows light creasing and the slipcase corners are sharp.
What distinguishes this pressing
- Catalogue number
19V-49058-- read in two places that agree, spine and hype sticker. Three rows in the version list carry it, all CMV Enterprises, so the number puts the copy in the CMV family rather than naming a row on its own. - The CBS Music Video Enterprises, New York address -- the only manufacturer or distributor statement on the object, and an American one. Nothing printed anywhere is Korean, which is what separates this from release 6578655, the 1995 South Korean PAL issue under the same number.
- The
NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S.hype sticker -- a retail sticker, applied at the factory under the wrap rather than at a shop, so it belongs to the release and not the point of sale. It says this tape was sold to the US public, which is the US retail row's whole description and the opposite of a promo's. - UPC barcode
0 4474 - 49058 - 3-- a US-format barcode whose item digits repeat the catalogue number. Shared across every copy of the commercial release, so it corroborates the US retail issue without being a discriminator. VHS hi-fi STEREOand Dolby on linear tracks -- format statements, shared with any CMV printing of this sleeve; they separate nothing.
Fifteen tracks, and the recording credits
Tracks 1-8
- 1Moonchild
- 2The Evil That Men Do
- 3Prisoner
- 4Still Life
- 5Die With Your Boots On
- 6Infinite Dreams
- 7Killers
- 8Can I Play With Madness
Tracks 9-15
- 9Heaven Can Wait
- 10Wasted Years
- 11The Clairvoyant
- 12Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
- 13The Number Of The Beast
- 14Hallowed Be Thy Name
- 15Iron Maiden
Filmed at Birmingham N.E.C. on 27 and 28 November 1988, during the Seventh Tour Of A Seventh Tour -- Iron Maiden's own back-sleeve text calls it "a personal fans-eye view of Maiden at their bombastic best". Running time 95 minutes. The release credits no performing line-up.
Directed and edited by Steve Harris. Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs. Photography by Ross Halfin. Package designed by The Complete Works. Issued by Picture Music International. Video copyright EMI Records Ltd.
Production credits are sourced from Discogs release 871017, the UK VHS and this master's main release, and apply to the film rather than to this copy. Where this copy's own sleeve or shell carries the publisher or copyright lines, they are quoted in the evidence above.
Condition, from the photographs
A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.
- Slipcase, through the wrap: no crushing, splitting or water damage visible in any frame; the corners read sharp on every edge photographed. The wrap itself carries light creasing and a folded seam at the foot of the spine, consistent with the factory fold over that edge.
- Shell and tape: not visible. The cassette has never been seen, so its condition is unverified.
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
The slipcase is the whole of the evidence, and it rules out two of the three candidates on its own. 19V-49058 reads cleanly on the spine and the hype sticker and matches three CMV Enterprises rows; the rear panel's CBS Records New York address, the UPC barcode and the first time in the U.S. sticker are all American and none of them is Korean, so the 1995 South Korean PAL row drops out.
The UK promo drops out too, and not from the American markers -- from the promo's own packaging. Discogs describes release 12084560 as a "promotional screener in plain white slipcase with sticker on front". That is not this object: every photograph shows the full printed Derek Riggs retail artwork -- the motorcycle Eddie, the Union flag, the red MAIDEN ENGLAND stamp -- through an intact shrink, with a UPC and a hype sticker aimed at a buyer rather than a reviewer. A plain white screener case is not a marking that the wrap could be hiding; it is a different slipcase, and this is not it. That leaves the US retail row, 4614014, as the only survivor.
No video standard is printed on any face photographed. NTSC comes from the Discogs row, not from the object, and the version list is incomplete by construction, so an uncatalogued CMV printing under the same number cannot be excluded -- the same caveat any Sealed grade carries regardless of how the wrap is read.