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Folder 277

UK

UK Powerslave in the standard sleeve, UK: POWER 1 and EJ 2402001 on the back. The run-out is the whole story: stamped EJ 2402001 TA-5C-1-1- DD and EJ 2402001T B-5C-1-1- D, with none of the Sterling etchings the first-press cuts carry, which is the later UK press Discogs files as 24915269.

Catalogue
POWER 1, EJ 2402001
Label
EMI
Released
1984
Confidence
Confirmed
Why this grade

Five UK rows share POWER 1 / EJ 2402001 on a printed label: 28454590, 14525157, 1846534, 18337036 and 24915269. The white-label 9878186 is out on sight, since both labels here are the printed sand-texture design. The sleeve and labels don't separate the five: all carry the same 5 099924 020015 barcode, the same SP8409TR printer code, the same EJ 2402001a label code and the same EJ 2402001(1) on the inner sleeve. The run-out does. Every variant Discogs records for 28454590, 14525157, 1846534 and 18337036 is an EJ 2402001T A-1U or A-2U cut with an etched THERE'S ONLY ONE um. and a stamped STERLING on side A, and B-1U or B-2U with the crossed-out THATS ... um. and STERLING on side B. This record has none of that. Side A reads stamped EJ 2402001 TA-5C-1-1- and then DD; side B reads EJ 2402001T B-5C-1-1- and then D, and the rest of each run-out band is blank in the frames. That is exactly 24915269's recorded run-out, EJ 2402001 TA - 5C -1 - 1 - DD / EJ 2402001 T B - 5C -1 - 1 - D, and no other candidate carries a 5C stamper, so the run-out is unique among the survivors and decides it. The owner's note read the run-out by eye as EJ 2402001 TA-5C-1-1- DD / EJ 2402001T B-5C-1-1- D and the barcode as 5099924020015; the photographs carry every one of those strings, so the note confirmed the reading rather than supplying it. The barcode is shared by all five UK rows and corroborates only. Two things Discogs mentions for 24915269 aren't established here: it describes a Price ATAK 140 or Price Attack 96 sticker on the front, and this front cover shows no sticker (one could have been removed), and it says the inner sleeve has square corners, which no frame shows. Discogs gives no year for this press; 1984 is the ℗ date on sleeve and label. The master is incomplete by construction, so an uncatalogued press with the same stampers cannot be excluded.

Reference
Discogs 24915269
Median sale
DKK 197
Sale range
DKK 53-576
On sale now
22, from DKK 177
Last sold
28 September 2026
A photograph of pressing 277, UK

What the record says

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

Run-out photographed, both sides. Side A (the label with EJ 2402001a under the catalogue number): stamped EJ 2402001 then TA-5C-1-1-, and further round the band a stamped DD. Side B: stamped EJ 2402001T then B-5C-1-1-, and further round a stamped D. All of it is machine-stamped; no hand etching, no STERLING and no um. shows anywhere in the seven run-out frames. Discogs records 24915269 as EJ 2402001 TA - 5C -1 - 1 - DD / EJ 2402001 T B - 5C -1 - 1 - D, which is this record.

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 14 of them

Front cover: gold 'IRON MAIDEN' logo and 'POWERSLAVE' title over the pyramid painting; no sticker on the front

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Rear cover, top right: 'UK: POWER 1', disc symbol 'EJ 2402001', cassette symbol 'EJ 2402004', barcode '5 099924 020015'

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Rear cover, top left: boxed 'EMI', 'EMI Records Ltd.', 'HAYES / MIDDLESEX / ENGLAND', 'Country of manufacture of record as stated on record label'

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Rear cover, lower left: 'ACES HIGH / 2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT / LOSFER WORDS (BIG 'ORRA) / FLASH OF THE BLADE / THE DUELLISTS', 'Sleeve printed in England', 'Manufactured in England'

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Rear cover, lower right: 'BACK IN THE VILLAGE / POWERSLAVE / RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER', 'PLAYING TIME: 51.20', '℗ 1984 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.', '© 1984 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd.', and a faint printer code in the corner read as 'SP8409TR'

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Inner sleeve, lyric side, upper right: 'EJ 2402001(1)' above the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner lyrics

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Side A label: blue outlined 'IRON MAIDEN' / 'POWERSLAVE' on a sand texture, '33⅓ R.P.M. Stereo', 'EJ 2402001' with 'EJ 2402001a' beneath it, 'THIS SIDE 1. ACES HIGH (Harris) 4.31 ... 5. THE DUELLISTS (Harris) 6.18', 'OTHER SIDE 1. BACK IN THE VILLAGE (Smith/Dickinson) 5.02 / 2. POWERSLAVE (Dickinson) 7.12 / 3. RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (Harris) 13.45', 'Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Martin Birch', 'All tracks Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd', '℗ 1984 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Limited', '© 1984 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Limited'

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Side A label rim: 'ALL RIGHTS OF THE PRODUCER AND OF THE OWNER OF THE RECORDED WORK RESERVED. UNAUTHORISED COPYING, HIRING, RENTING, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AND BROADCASTING OF THIS RECORD PROHIBITED. MANUFACTURED IN THE UK BY EMI RECORDS LIMITED'

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Run-out groove, side A: stamped 'EJ 2402001'

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Run-out groove, side A: stamped 'TA-5C-1-1-' following the '1' of the catalogue number

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Run-out groove, side A (label text 'PROHIBITED. MANUFACTURED' and 'EJ 2402001a' visible above): stamped 'DD' on an otherwise blank band

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Run-out groove, side B: stamped 'EJ 2402001T'

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Run-out groove, side B: stamped 'T B-5C-1-1-'

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Run-out groove, side B: a single stamped 'D' on an otherwise blank band

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Single sleeve, the Derek Riggs pyramid painting on the front and the tomb scene on the back, lightly ring-worn with soft corners and a small chip at the top left of the rear
  • No price sticker or hype sticker on the front
  • Printed inner sleeve with the lyrics on one side
  • Black vinyl; both labels the printed sand-texture design with blue lettering

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Printed labels, not white: rules out the white-label 9878186
  • Run-out EJ 2402001 TA-5C-1-1- / DD and EJ 2402001T B-5C-1-1- / D, all stamped, with no STERLING or um. etching: matches 24915269 and no other UK row, every one of which is a 1U or 2U Sterling cut
  • UK: POWER 1, EJ 2402001, barcode 5 099924 020015, printer code SP8409TR and inner-sleeve EJ 2402001(1): shared by all five UK rows, corroborate only
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Aces High
  2. A22 Minutes To Midnight
  3. A3Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
  4. A4Flash Of The Blade
  5. A5The Duellists

Side B

  1. B1Back In The Village
  2. B2Powerslave
  3. B3Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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

Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch, assisted by Bruce Buchhalter and Frank Gibson. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound. Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau; mixed at Electric Lady Studios, New York. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; sleeve and design concept by Derek Riggs, Iron Maiden and Rod Smallwood. Photography by Moshe Brakha. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 1846534, 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 24915269 by the run-out alone: the 5C stampers with DD and D are recorded for that press and for no other UK candidate, and the sleeve, barcode and labels agree without discriminating. The owner's note read the same strings. A frame of the inner sleeve's corners would show the square corners Discogs describes, and a close frame of the front would show whether a Price Attack sticker was ever there.