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Folder 240

France

Label rights line BIEM - SACEM - SDRM (1762213) versus SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL on 6407065's label.

Catalogue
7902581
Label
EMI
Released
1988
Confidence
Confirmed
Why this grade

French EMI pressing with the French price code and the French rights line on the label. The stamped and hand-etched run-out (M9 358773 2 / 7902581-A "VERY DIRECT METAL" Sterling; M9 358774 / 7902581-B "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT BOLLOCKS" Sterling) is shared by three French entries: 1762213, 6407065 and the test pressing 22368532, so the run-out alone does not settle it. The label's rights line BIEM - SACEM - SDRM matches 1762213 ('On a line BIEM - SACEM - SDRM'); 6407065 is documented with a different label design carrying SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL, and the test pressing came in a plain white inner with a sticker, not this printed sleeve with barcode. The owner's note (barcode 077779025817 and the same run-out readings) agrees with the photographs; it did not decide anything the photographs did not already show. The version list is never complete, so an uncatalogued French variant cannot be ruled out.

Reference
Discogs 1762213
Median sale
DKK 271
Sale range
DKK 149-895
On sale now
8, from DKK 205
Last sold
22 September 2026
A photograph of pressing 240, France

What the record says

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

A: M9 358773 2 (stamped) / 7902581-A / "VERY DIRECT METAL" / Sterling; B: M9 358774 (stamped) / 7902581-B / "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT BOLLOCKS" / Sterling

Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout

As Discogs records them for release 1762213. Green: in my collection (0 of 4). Red: missing.

✗Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1)[Stamped] M9 358773 2 [Hand etched] 7902581-A "VERYDIRECTMETAL" Sterling
✗Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1)[Stamped] M9 358774 [Hand etched] 7902581-B "IFYOUDON'TLIKEITBOLLOCKS" Sterling
✗Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2)M9 358773 2 7902581-A "VERY DIRECT METAL" Sterling 1
✗Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2)M9 358774 7902581-B "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT BOLLOCKS" Sterling
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 10 of them

Back sleeve, top right: 064 boxed 7 90258 1, PM 264 boxed 7 90258 1; barcode ending 7779 02581 7; cassette 7 90258 4, CD 7 90258 2; DMM ... TELDEC

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Back sleeve, lower right: EMI Services Benelux B.V., Uden. En France: distribution exclusive EMI Pathé Marconi S.A.

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Label: 7902581 with BIEM - SACEM - SDRM on one line beneath it, Direct Metal Mastering DMM logo, rim MADE IN E...

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Printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and band photos, 7 90258 1 top left

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Side A run-out stamped M9 358773 2

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Side A run-out hand-etched "VERY DIREC... / ...RY DIRECT M...

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Side A run-out hand-etched 7902581-A

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Side B run-out stamped M9 358774, hand-etched Ster... (Sterling)

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Side B run-out hand-etched 7902581-B

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Side B run-out hand-etched "If You D... / ...Like It Bollocks

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Single sleeve, standard Seventh Son artwork front and back, with the French and catalogue boxes and barcode on the back.
  • Double-sided printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and photos.
  • Black vinyl, full-colour artwork labels with the EMI logo and DMM logo.
  • A printed panel of the Eddie fortune-teller artwork (the inner sleeve's reverse or a separate insert; the photos don't show which).

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Label rights line BIEM - SACEM - SDRM (1762213) versus SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL on 6407065's label.
  • Printed sleeve with barcode and printed inner, not the test pressing's plain white inner with sticker (22368532).
  • Stamped M9 numbers in the run-out, absent from the Europe/Holland pressing 368980 (7902581-A-01).
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Moonchild
  2. A2Infinite Dreams
  3. A3Can I Play With Madness
  4. A4The Evil That Men Do

Side B

  1. B1Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
  2. B2The Prophecy
  3. B3The Clairvoyant
  4. B4Only The Good Die Young

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

Settled: the label's BIEM - SACEM - SDRM line picks 1762213 among the three French entries sharing this run-out.