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MADE IN GREECE BY EMI on the shell - an explicit manufacturing statement, read off the object rather than inferred, and consistent with 5935798's EMI Greece S.A. [Manufactured By] credit.
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
Inlay, laid flat: standard cover artwork with STEREO over 262-7902584 at the spine, a Dolby device, an EMI logo, and the eight titles down the rear panel
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Shell, side 1: white shell printed in blue - 262-7902584, SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON / IRON MAIDEN, the four side-one titles, AEPI, ℗ 1988 EMI Records Ltd., an EMI logo, a boxed 1 over STEREO, 14797, a DOLBY SYSTEM device, and the rights notice ending MADE IN GREECE BY EMI
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MADE IN GREECE BY EMI on the shell - an explicit manufacturing statement, read off the object rather than inferred, and consistent with 5935798's EMI Greece S.A. [Manufactured By] credit.AEPI - the Greek rights society, and the value Discogs records for this row. Corroboration, not a discriminator: the skill's own table lists a rights society as territory-wide.262-7902584 - the match axis, on the spine and the shell. Returns exactly one row.14797 printed at the foot of the shell label - the discriminator. Discogs records Made By – Columbia, Athens for this row with 14797 as that company's catalogue number: the Athens plant's own job number, on the object and on the record. This entry first called it unusable, which was wrong - the field was there and had not been looked at.AEPI is the Greek ΑΕΠΙ, and a downscaled photograph of it reads as AEFI. This was read from the native-resolution frame.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.
A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.
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.
Settled on a plant number that was nearly thrown away. MADE IN GREECE BY EMI and AEPI are printed on the shell and 262-7902584 on both the spine and the label, which fixes country and catalogue number from the cassette itself.
Those alone would only be Probable: a rights society and a manufacturer credit belong to the Greek issue as a class. The 14797 at the foot of the label is different. Discogs records Made By – Columbia, Athens for this row and gives 14797 as that company's number - the Athens plant's job number, which is release-specific by nature and matches exactly.
Worth recording as a method note: this entry originally called 14797 unusable, on the grounds that no Discogs row recorded it. The row did. The companies block had simply not been read, which is the same failure the skill warns about when it says to check a discriminator against the fetched data every time rather than assuming what is there.
Standing caveat: a Greek pressing absent from Discogs cannot be excluded.