Folder 278

Europe

Made in E.E.C. with German rights text and LC 0542 on both labels and the rear sleeve: the EMI Electrola pan-European issue, which is what sets this copy apart from the Spanish rows that share the same digits.

Catalogue: 068-7 95142 1
Label: EMI
Released: 1990
Confidence: Still up in the air (2)
Why this grade
068-7 95142 1 on both labels, LP 068 7 95142 1 in the rear-sleeve code block and LP 068- 7 95142 1 on the inner sleeve all normalise to the same string, and the master's 274-row version list carries that number on two Europe rows that are identical in every fetched field: release 1962532 and release 36854263, both EMI, LP Album Stereo, 1990, catalogue LP 068 7 95142 1, 068-7 95142 1. Nothing in the version list separates them, and no release JSON is cached for either, so the run-out -- the one thing that would -- has nothing recorded to be compared against. Country is settled independently of the match: both labels state Made in E.E.C., carry BIEM / GEMA and the German Alle Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte vorbehalten! block, and both the labels and the rear sleeve print the German label code LC 0542; the rear sleeve adds France: PM 264. That is the EMI Electrola pan-European issue, Discogs country Europe. The three Spanish rows (1740533 and 28949074 as 068-79 5142-1, promo 11508720 as 068 7 95142 1) and the Romanian 2000 row 24683333 normalise to the same digits, but nothing here is Spanish -- no Made in Spain, no depósito legal, no Spanish rights text -- and the Made in E.E.C. statement with the 1990 copyright line sets the Romanian row aside too, with the caveat that no JSON for it is cached either. The run-out was photographed on both sides and reads, in two stamped forms per side, 795 142 1-A-0 near the label and 7950491-A01 at the rim on side A, 795 142 1-B-0 near the label and 7950491-B01 at the rim on side B. The owner's note gives the barcode as 077779514212 and the deadwax as 7950491-A01 795142 1-A-0 and 7950491-B01 795142 1-B-01; every element of that is carried by the photographs except the trailing 1 of the inner side-B form, which sits at the edge of the frames and is read as a partial glyph here, so it is taken on the owner's reading of the object and nothing rests on it. The note did not decide between the two candidates, because nothing in the fetched data could. The version list is incomplete by construction, so a third European pressing sharing this number cannot be excluded either.
Reference: Candidate 1962532 Candidate 36854263
Estimated worth: from DKK 262
Basis: 1 of 2 candidate releases have sold, so the upper end is not bounded

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, two stamped forms on each. Side A carries 795 142 1-A-0 in the band beside the label, with a trailing glyph that runs out of the frame, and 7950491-A01 stamped at the outer rim with the 5142 1 A label text in the same frame. Side B carries 795 142 1-B-0 beside the label, again with the last glyph cut off at the frame edge, and 7950491-B01 at the rim, assembled across three frames that each carry the SIDE TWO label. The owner's note reads the inner side-B form as 795142 1-B-01; the 1 is not resolved in any frame. No cached Discogs release JSON exists for either candidate, so these strings corroborate the copy and settle nothing between the two rows.

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

Front sleeve: the Derek Riggs artwork with the IRON MAIDEN logo and NO PRAYER FOR THE DYING title; no sticker, overprint or number on the front

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Rear sleeve: band line-up BRUCE DICKINSON / DAVE MURRAY / JANICK GERS / STEVE HARRIS / NICKO McBRAIN, PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MARTIN BIRCH, ten-title tracklist, (P) 1990 THE COPYRIGHT IN THIS SOUND RECORDING IS OWNED BY IRON MAIDEN HOLDINGS LIMITED UNDER EXCLUSIVE LICENSE TO EMI RECORDS LTD. and the red EMI box; code block top right

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Rear-sleeve code block at native resolution: barcode 0 77779 51421 2, LP 068 with 7 95142 1 boxed, MC 268 - 7 95142 4, CD 568 - 7 95142 2, LC 0542 in the oval, France: PM 264

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Printed lyric inner sleeve, LP 068- 7 95142 1 running down the edge beside the HOOKS IN YOU lyrics

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Inner sleeve credits panel: Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Martin "The Bishop" Birch, Recorded at: Steve Harris' Barn, somewhere in England on the Rolling Stone Mobile, Mixed at: Battery Studios, London, Sleeve Illustration: Derek Riggs, Iron Maiden F.C., P.O. Box 10, London SW19 3TW, and the (P) 1990 ... UNDER EXCLUSIVE LICENCE TO EMI RECORDS LTD. / (C) 1990 IRON MAIDEN HOLDINGS LTD. lines

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Side A label: 068-7 95142 1 A, BIEM / GEMA, STEREO 33 RPM, SIDE ONE with five titles and timings, Alle Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte vorbehalten! Kein Verleih! ..., Made in E.E.C., (P) 1990 The Copyright in this Sound Recording is owned by IRON MAIDEN HOLDINGS LIMITED under exclusive License to EMI Records Ltd., LC 0542 and the red EMI box; the Riggs artwork fills the left half

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Side B label: 068-7 95142 1 B, BIEM / GEMA, STEREO 33 RPM, SIDE TWO with five titles, the same German and English rights text ending Made in E.E.C., LC 0542 and the EMI box

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Side A run-out beside the label, native crop: stamped 795 142 1-A-0 with a further glyph running off the frame; the label's LC 0542 oval sits just above

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Side A run-out at the rim: stamped 7950491-A01, with the label's 5142 1 A / M / GEMA / EO 33 RPM text upside down in the same frame

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Side B run-out beside the label, two native crops: stamped 795 142 1-B-0 with the last glyph cut off at the frame edge

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Side B run-out at the rim, three frames that together read 7950491-B01: 7950491-B at one end, 950491-B in the middle and 1-B01 at the other, each with the SIDE TWO label text in frame

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Outer sleeve -- single, standard Riggs artwork, black rear with the band photograph and the tracklist; light wear at the top-right corner by the code block.
Inner sleeve -- printed, lyrics on one face and the credits, thank-you lists and fan-club address on the other, with the catalogue number running down one edge.
Labels -- the 1990 EMI design with the Riggs artwork on the left and red logo and tracklist on the right, German rights text and Made in E.E.C. on both sides.
Vinyl -- black, machine-stamped run-outs on both sides.

What distinguishes this pressing

Made in E.E.C. with German rights text and LC 0542 on both labels and the rear sleeve: the EMI Electrola pan-European issue, which is what sets this copy apart from the Spanish rows that share the same digits.
The rear sleeve's France: PM 264 beside the LC 0542 oval -- the French price code printed on the European sleeve.
Two stamped run-out forms per side, 795 142 1-A-0 / 7950491-A01 and 795 142 1-B-0 / 7950491-B01, which is the mark that would separate the two Europe rows if either had a run-out on record.

Ten tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

A1Tailgunner
A2Holy Smoke
A3No Prayer For The Dying
A4Public Enema Number One
A5Fates Warning

Side B

B1The Assassin
B2Run Silent Run Deep
B3Hooks In You
B4Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter
B5Mother Russia

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - guitar · Janick Gers - guitar · Steve Harris - bass · Nicko McBrain - drums.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch, assisted by Chris Marshall (mixing) and Les Kingham and Mick McKenna (recording). Mastered at Sterling Sound. Recorded at Steve Harris' Barn on the Rolling Stones Mobile; mixed at Battery Studios, London. Sleeve and illustration by Derek Riggs; packaging artwork by The Complete Works. Photography by Ross Halfin. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 387769, 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

Narrowed (2). Country and catalogue number are certain from the labels, the rear sleeve and the inner sleeve. Two Europe rows in the version list carry this number with every fetched field identical, and nothing cached for either records a run-out to compare 7950491-A01 / 7950491-B01 against. Fetching the two release pages and matching the photographed stampers to whichever row records them is what settles it; if neither does, the copy stays with both.