Folder 306

UK

Back sleeve IRN 7 / 79 3995 1 and labels numbered IRN 71 and IRN 72 with the EMI box: the only row on the master carrying those numbers is the UK 380092.

Catalogue: IRN 7, 79 3995 1, IRN 71, IRN 72
Label: EMI
Released: 1990
Confidence: Likely
Why this grade
UK EMI double pack, part VII of The First Ten Years. The back sleeve carries IRN 7 over 79 3995 1 with barcode 0 077779 399512, and its print block reads SLEEVE PRINTED IN ENGLAND / MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND SP9003JU; the two records' labels read IRN 71 / IRN 71A / IRN 71B (Running Free disc) and IRN 72 / IRN 72A / IRN 72B (Run To The Hills disc), each with the EMI box and © 1990 EMI RECORDS LTD. Of the four vinyl-bearing rows on the master only 380092 carries IRN 7, 79 3995 1, IRN 71, IRN 72; the European row 2593673 is a 198 7 93995 1 family number that appears nowhere on this copy, the Italian row 5503354 is 2-52 7939951, and the Colombian row 2242543 is 456000007. All four run-outs were photographed and are stamped IRN 71 A-1-1-1, IRN 71 B-1-1- (fourth character overstruck), IRN 72 A-1-1- (fourth character overstruck) and IRN 72 B-1-1-1. The grade stops at Probable rather than Confirmed because no release JSON for 380092 is cached, so the run-outs could not be compared with the matrix Discogs records for it; the catalogue number and country match one row and nothing else was cross-checked. The barcode only corroborates the commercial release, not the pressing. The version list is never complete, so an uncatalogued UK variant cannot be ruled out.
Reference: Discogs 380092
Median sale: DKK 268
Sale range: DKK 134-559
On sale now: 27, from DKK 224
Last sold: 6 November 2026

What the record says

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

IRN 71 A: IRN 71 A-1-1-1 (stamped); IRN 71 B: IRN 71 B-1-1- then an overstruck character and a hand-scratched mark resembling 2 (reading of the tail uncertain); IRN 72 A: IRN 72 A-1-1- then a 1 with scratch marks over it and a hand-scratched mark resembling 2 (reading of the tail uncertain); IRN 72 B: IRN 72 B-1-1-1 (stamped). A separate stamped D was photographed in four frames; only the one in IMG_7106.jpeg can be tied to a side (IRN 72 B) from the label text beside it.

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 18 of them

Front sleeve: IRON MAIDEN logo over the Running Free live artwork, with The First Ten Years roundel top right

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Front roundel at native resolution: THE FIRST TEN YEARS 1980 1990 EDDIE RUNNING FREE (Live) RUN TO THE HILLS (Live) VII UP THE IRONS

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Back sleeve: IRON MAIDEN in red over the live photograph, barcode block top right, EMI box bottom left with a three-line red print block beneath it that is too small to read even at native resolution, and a print block bottom right

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Back sleeve catalogue block: barcode 0 077779 399512, IRN 7, 79 3995 1

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Back sleeve top edge, partly cut off: S14-120 STERE

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Back sleeve print block at native resolution: SLEEVE PRINTED IN ENGLAND / MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND SP9003JU

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Gatefold inside left: A RUNNING FREE (HARRIS / DI ANNO) B 1. SANCTUARY (IRON MAIDEN) 2. MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (HARRIS) Produced, Engineered and Mixed by MARTIN "PLAN B" BIRCH; centre RUNNING FREE* b/w (i) SANCTUARY* (ii) MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE** *Recorded Live at Long Beach Arena, USA, March 1985 **Recorded Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, October 1984; EMI box bottom left; bottom right Illustrations: DEREK RIGGS Packaging: THE COMPLETE WORKS

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Gatefold inside right: Side One RUN TO THE HILLS HARRIS Recorded Live at Long Beach Arena, March 1985 Side Two PHANTOM OF THE OPERA LOSFER WORDS (BIG 'ORRA) Recorded Live at The Hammersmith Odeon, October 1984; top-right list RUN TO THE HILLS 1. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 2. LOSFER WORDS (BIG ORRA) 3. LISTEN WITH NICKO! PART VII Produced by N. McBRAIN

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Run To The Hills disc, side A label: A RUN TO THE HILLS (HARRIS) Produced, Engineered and Mixed by MARTIN BIRCH, IRN 72 / IRN 72A, ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD, ℗ 1985 THE COPYRIGHT IN THIS SOUND RECORDING IS OWNED BY EMI RECORDS LTD © 1990 EMI RECORDS LTD, EMI box, rim ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. UNAUTHORISED COPYING, PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AND BROADCASTING OF THIS DISC FORBIDDEN

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Run To The Hills disc, side B label: B 1. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 2. LOSFER WORDS (BIG ORRA) 3. LISTEN WITH NICKO! PART VII, IRN 72 / IRN 72B, TRACKS 1 & 2 ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD, ℗ 1985 EXCEPT TRACK 3 ℗ 1990 THE COPYRIGHT IN THIS SOUND RECORDING IS OWNED BY EMI RECORDS LTD © 1990 EMI RECORDS LTD, EMI box

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Run To The Hills disc, side A run-out: stamped IRN 72 A-1-1- followed by a 1 with scratch marks over it and a hand-scratched mark resembling 2; the tail cannot be read with certainty

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Run To The Hills disc, side B run-out: stamped IRN 72 B-1-1-1

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A single stamped D in the run-out, beside label text ℗ 1990 / SOUND RECORDING / EMI RECORDS LTD, which is the IRN 72 B label's layout

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A single stamped D in the run-out in three further frames; the label text visible beside them does not tie any of them to one side

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Running Free disc, side A label: A RUNNING FREE (HARRIS / DI ANNO) Produced, Engineered and Mixed by MARTIN "PLAN B" BIRCH, IRN 71 / IRN 71A, ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD, ℗ 1985 THE COPYRIGHT IN THIS SOUND RECORDING IS OWNED BY EMI RECORDS LTD © 1990 EMI RECORDS LTD, EMI box

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Running Free disc, side B label: B 1. SANCTUARY (IRON MAIDEN) 2. MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (HARRIS), IRN 71 / IRN 71B, ZOMBA MUSIC PUBLISHERS LTD, same EMI copyright lines and EMI box

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Running Free disc, side A run-out: stamped IRN 71 A-1-1-1

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Running Free disc, side B run-out: stamped IRN 71 B-1-1- followed by an overstruck character and a hand-scratched mark resembling 2; the tail cannot be read with certainty

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Gatefold double pack sleeve with the Running Free live artwork and The First Ten Years roundel on the front and the Run To The Hills live photograph on the back; the inside spread carries the Running Free stage shot on the left and the Run To The Hills landscape on the right. Light wear along the bottom edge and corners.
Two black vinyl 12" records, one per single, each with the grey Eddie-under-the-streetlamp labels, red Iron Maiden logo and red EMI box.
No inner sleeves, inserts or stickers are visible in the photographs.

What distinguishes this pressing

Back sleeve IRN 7 / 79 3995 1 and labels numbered IRN 71 and IRN 72 with the EMI box: the only row on the master carrying those numbers is the UK 380092.
No 198 7 93995 1 family number anywhere on sleeve or labels, which is what the European row 2593673 carries.
No 2-52 7939951 (Italy, 5503354) or 456000007 (Colombia, 2242543) anywhere on the copy, and MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND SP9003JU on the back sleeve.
Stamped run-outs IRN 71 A-1-1-1, IRN 71 B-1-1- (overstruck tail), IRN 72 A-1-1- (overstruck tail) and IRN 72 B-1-1-1, plus a stamped D, recorded here for comparison once 380092's matrix fields are to hand.

Seven tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

ARunning Free
B1Sanctuary
B2Murders In The Rue Morgue

Side B

CRun To The Hills
D1Phantom Of The Opera
D2Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
D3Listen With Nicko! Part VII

All six live tracks produced by Martin Birch. Running Free, Sanctuary and Run To The Hills were recorded at the Long Beach Arena, California, in March 1985; Murders In The Rue Morgue, Phantom Of The Opera and Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in October 1984. Manufactured by EMI Swindon. Discogs lists no sleeve or packaging credits for this release beyond those.

Credits are sourced from Discogs release 383860, the UK CD IRN 7, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing; the UK double 12" is release 380092 (IRN 7). 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

One UK row fits and nothing contradicts it, but the run-outs were never compared with what Discogs records for 380092 because that release's JSON is not cached. Fetching release 380092 and checking its Matrix / Runout fields against the four photographed run-outs, including the overstruck tails on IRN 71 B and IRN 72 A, is what would lift this from Probable to Confirmed. Standing caveat: the method cannot exclude a pressing absent from Discogs.