Folder 181
UK
Picture Music International (EMI): named on the back cover as A Picture Music International Release. No distributor address or territory is printed.
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.
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 9 of them
Front sleeve: IRON MAIDEN logo, Eddie on a motorbike with a Union Jack, and a red stamped MAIDEN ENGLAND logo (red, not yellow). No sticker, overprint or catalogue number on the front
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Back cover, foot: barcode 5 099999 119539, next to E / Exempt from Classification
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Back cover, foot: A Picture Music International Release · RUNNING TIME 95 MINUTES · Mono-Stereo compatible, with the EMI logo and the ROCK COLLECTION building
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Back cover, foot: ©1989 The copyright on this video recording is owned by EMI Reco[rds Ltd]. The copyright in respect of artwork & overall packaging is owned by Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd. No Made in line, rights society or FSK mark anywhere on the back
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Spine, top: MVN 9911953 above the VHS / PAL COLOUR / Hi-Fi / STEREO / DIGITALLY MASTERED / DOLBY SYSTEM ON LINEAR TRACKS panel, then IRON MAIDEN, MAIDEN ENGLAND and the ROCK COLLECTION logo
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Cassette shell label: MVN 9911953 Running Time Approx. 95mins., © 1989 The Copyright On This Video Recording Is Owned By EMI Records Ltd., a circled E, and the copyright warning box
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Handwritten price sticker inside the case: P6 15432 / 14 00062 -- a shop label, no country or release information
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No FSK mark anywhere on the object: sleeve front, back, spine and edges, both sides of the cassette shell and its labels, and the inside of the case
checked by eye by the owner, 2026-10-06; filed in this folder as fsk - eye.txt
Cassette shell label: boxed MAIDEN ENGLAND logo, circled E, ROCK COLLECTION building, English-only warning -- the label in the Discogs shell image for UK 871017. The Discogs shell image for German 6755088 is a different label (plain title, PMI logo, English/German/French warning)
IMG_3908.jpeg, against Discogs 871017 and 6755088 images; owner's comparison of 2026-10-06 in fsk - eye.txt
The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Standard VHS clamshell case in a card slip sleeve. Front is the red-logo Eddie-on-a-motorbike painting; the back carries the tracklist, five live photographs, the blurb and the barcode block.
- Black cassette with a white paper label printed in navy. The label reads
MVN 9911953, the same number as the spine. - A torn handwritten price sticker (
P6 15432/14 00062) sits inside the case window.
What distinguishes this pressing
- Picture Music International (EMI): named on the back cover as
A Picture Music International Release. No distributor address or territory is printed.
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.
- Sleeve: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no splits or seam separation visible in these shots.
- Shell/tape: the cassette shell shows light handling wear. No visible cracking, warping or tape spillage in these photographs. The tape has not been played through in these shots, so its condition past the visible shell is unverified.
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 as 871017 (UK). The catalogue number MVN 9911953, the barcode, the 95-minute running time and the red front logo leave two rows, 871017 (UK) and 6755088 (Germany). The cassette shell label decides it: this copy's label is the one Discogs shows for 871017 (boxed logo, circled E, Rock Collection building, English-only warning), not the trilingual PMI label Discogs shows for 6755088. The owner's check of the whole object found no FSK 7 mark, which Discogs records for the German row only, and agrees.
Standing caveat. The version list is incomplete by construction, so an uncatalogued pressing carrying the same number cannot be excluded.