All 9 pressings

Folder 280

Italy

Back sleeve printer credit graphyche magica 2000 milano rather than Grafica Pozzoli S.p.A. Inzago (14212616)

Catalogue
54 1076081
Label
EMI
Released
1987
Confidence
Confirmed
Why this grade

Italian 1987 reissue on EMI Italiana, the one printed by Graphyche Magica. Both labels and the back sleeve carry 54 1076081 with S.I.A.E. and MADE IN ITALY BY EMI ITALIANA SPA, which leaves exactly two rows on the master, 1596154 and 14212616, both Italy 1987 with barcode 5 099910 760819. The deadwax is photographed on both sides and reads 1076081-A 15-4-87 I with a small triangle on side A and 07608-B 31-5-82 II with a triangle and an MM. scrawl on side B -- but Discogs files that identical metalwork under BOTH candidates, so the run-out confirms the family and separates nothing. What does separate them is the printer credit in the back sleeve's lower right corner: this copy reads graphyche magica 2000 milano, which 1596154 names, while 14212616 reads Grafica Pozzoli S.p.A. Inzago there instead. The printer code is carried by one survivor only, so the grade is Confirmed. The owner's note gave the barcode and both run-outs; the photographs show the same strings, but the note did not decide anything here since the run-out was shared. The version list is incomplete, so an uncatalogued variant can't be excluded.

Reference
Discogs 1596154
Median sale
DKK 172
Sale range
DKK 30-315
On sale now
11, from DKK 112
Last sold
6 October 2026
A photograph of pressing 280, Italy

What the record says

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

A: 1076081-A 15-4-87 I (+ triangle); B: 07608-B 31-5-82 II (+ triangle) MM.

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 9 of them

Back sleeve top right: stereo, boxed 54 then 1076081, Available on cassette, barcode sticker 5 099910 760819

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Back sleeve lower right: EMI logo, Made in Italy by EMI Italiana SpA, printer credit graphyche magica 2000 milano, and a circled-arrow printer's mark

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Back sleeve left column: line-up, Side 1 / Side 2 tracklist, Produced and engineered by MARTIN 'FARMER' BIRCH, (P) 1982 Original sound recordings made by EMI Records Ltd., fan club address Medianova Spettacoli S.A.S., Via Carlo Alberto 18, 10230 Turin, Italy

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Side A label: cream EMI label, STEREO, boxed 54 1076081, A, boxed S.I.A.E., tracks 1-4 Invaders to 22, Acacia Avenue, rim text MADE IN ITALY BY EMI ITALIANA SPA and Italian rights warning, round purple ink stamp partly reading ROMA

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Side B label: same design, 54 1076081, B, S.I.A.E., tracks 1-4 The Number Of The Beast to Hallowed Be Thy Name

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Run-out side A: machine-stamped 1076081-A then 15-4-87 then I followed by a small triangle

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Run-out side B: machine-stamped 07608-B then 31-5-82 then II, a small triangle, and a hand-etched MM. scrawl

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Run-out side A, outer stretch: blank apart from a stamped 5 fragment at the frame edge

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Front sleeve: standard Number Of The Beast artwork, no stickers

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Matte outer sleeve with Italian fan club address and a barcode sticker, edge and corner wear
  • Black vinyl LP with cream EMI labels, S.I.A.E. boxes and Italian rim text
  • Round purple ink stamp on the side A label, shop or library stamp, partly legible
  • No inner sleeve photographed

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Back sleeve printer credit graphyche magica 2000 milano rather than Grafica Pozzoli S.p.A. Inzago (14212616)
  • Side A deadwax date 15-4-87 marks the 1987 recut; side B keeps the 1982 metal dated 31-5-82
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Invaders
  2. A2Children Of The Damned
  3. A3The Prisoner
  4. A422, Acacia Avenue

Side B

  1. B1The Number Of The Beast
  2. B2Run To The Hills
  3. B3Gangland
  4. B4Hallowed Be Thy Name

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - guitar · Adrian Smith - guitar · Steve Harris - bass · Clive Burr - drums.

Produced and engineered by Martin Birch, assisted by Nigel Green. Recorded at Battery Studios, London; lacquer cut by Nick Webb. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; artwork by Cream. Inner-sleeve photography by Andre Csillag, P.G. Brunelli, Robert Ellis, Ross Halfin and Toshi Yajima; sleeve photography by Simon Fowler; photo montage by Ian Kay. Management by Rod Smallwood for Sanctuary Music. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd. Phonographic copyright and copyright EMI Records Ltd.

Personnel, production and artwork credits are sourced from Discogs release 1466299, the UK original (EMI EMC 3400, 1982) and this master's main release, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. Where this copy's own packaging carries the producer, 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.
  • 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 by the printer code. A photograph of the inner sleeve would add nothing Discogs separates the two Italian rows on.