Folder 241

France

Boxed rights block SACEM / SACD / SDRM (6407065: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL) versus BIEM - SACEM - SDRM on one line (1762213).

Catalogue: 7902581
Label: EMI
Released: 1988
Confidence: Confirmed
Why this grade
French EMI pressing: PM 264 French price code on the back sleeve, and the label's rights societies sit in a box -- SACEM across the top, SACD running down the left, SDRM in an oval, the right-hand column (SGDL on Discogs) half hidden under the artwork's yellow flare. The run-out (stamped M9 358773 2 / etched 7902581-A "VERY DIRECT METAL" Sterling; stamped M9 358774 / etched 7902581-B "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT BOLLOCKS" Sterling) is shared by 1762213, 6407065 and the test pressing 22368532, so it does not decide this alone. The boxed rights block does: 6407065 lists Rights Society SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL and is noted as a different label design (rim text and rights societies) from 1762213, whose rights line is BIEM - SACEM - SDRM on one line (as on folder 240's copy). The printed sleeve with barcode and printed inner rule out the test pressing. The owner's note agrees on barcode and both run-outs; its Sterling 2 on side A is not visible in the photographs (the 2 photographed belongs to the stamped M9 358773 2), and the note decided nothing the photographs did not already show. The version list is never complete, so an uncatalogued French variant cannot be ruled out.
Reference: Discogs 6407065
Median sale: DKK 233
Sale range: DKK 93-1,166
On sale now: 28, from DKK 125
Last sold: 23 August 2026

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 6407065. Green: in my collection (0 of 2). Red: missing.

✗	Matrix / Runout (Side 1)	`[Stamped] M9 358773 2 [Hand etched] 7902581 A "VERYDIRECTMETAL" Sterling`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Side 2)	`[Stamped] M9 358774 [Hand etched] 7902581-B "IFYOUDON'TLIKEITBOLLOCKS" Sterling`

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 11 of them

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

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

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Label: 7902581 above a boxed rights block -- SACEM on top, SACD vertical down the left, SDRM in an oval; Direct Metal Mastering DMM logo

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Label, side with track list: EMI, 33 1/3 RPM, 7902581, boxed SACEM block, DMM logo

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Printed inner sleeve with lyrics (MOONCHILD) 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 790258... / ...02581-A

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Side A run-out hand-etched "VERY DIRECT METAL" (partly legible) and Sterling

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Side B run-out stamped M9 358774, label rim ...RED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS...

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Side B run-out hand-etched Sterling and 790258... (B side etching)

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Side B run-out hand-etched "If You Don't Like It B... / ...n't 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, French price box and barcode on the back.
Double-sided printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and band photos.
Black vinyl, full-colour artwork labels with the EMI logo, DMM logo and a boxed French rights-society block.

What distinguishes this pressing

Boxed rights block SACEM / SACD / SDRM (6407065: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL) versus BIEM - SACEM - SDRM on one line (1762213).
Printed sleeve with barcode and printed inner, not the test pressing's plain white inner with sticker (22368532).

Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

A1Moonchild
A2Infinite Dreams
A3Can I Play With Madness
A4The Evil That Men Do

Side B

B1Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
B2The Prophecy
B3The Clairvoyant
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 on the label's boxed rights-society block, which only 6407065 records among the three French entries sharing this run-out. A clean shot of the right-hand column of the box (SGDL) would close the last gap.