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Folder 75

Poland

The 3/5 side split with Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son at A3 - the discriminator. It is not the album's running order, and 22345432 records the identical sequence.

Catalogue
1139
Label
Elbo
Released
undated on the copy itself
Confidence
Confirmed
Why this grade

the tracklist is the identification. This tape does not run the album in its own order: side A carries three songs and side B five, with Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son promoted to A3 and Can I Play With Madness pushed to B1. 22345432 is the only Elbo row in the master and it records exactly that split, with the same eight durations the card prints - 5:40, 6:09, 9:53 / 3:30, 4:34, 5:05, 4:26, 4:42. The row's own photograph is the same pink music giants card, logo for logo

Reference
Discogs 22345432
Worth
No recorded Discogs sale
On sale now
None listed
A photograph of pressing 75, Poland

What the record says

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

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 6 of them

Inlay, laid flat: a pink card with the elbo script logo, the series line music giants, IRON MAIDEN over SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON, and 1139 at the spine

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Inlay rear panel, tracklist: SIDE A with three titles totalling 21:49 and SIDE B with five totalling 22:19 - SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON at A3 and CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS at B1, which is not the album's order

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Inlay rights block: BIEM over ZAiKS, with the Warsaw address ul. Moniuszki 10 m 54, 00-009 WARSZAWA

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Inlay tape-stock line: ELBO 120 µS and an AGFA credit

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Shell, side A: clear plastic with the pink elbo label

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Shell, side B: the same

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Shell - clear plastic with a printed pink paper label on both faces.
  • Inlay - a single folded pink card, matt, in the music giants series livery rather than the album's artwork.
  • Condition - card lightly creased at the spine; labels clean.

What distinguishes this pressing

  • The 3/5 side split with Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son at A3 - the discriminator. It is not the album's running order, and 22345432 records the identical sequence.
  • The eight printed durations - 5:40 / 6:09 / 9:53 and 3:30 / 4:34 / 5:05 / 4:26 / 4:42, matching the row's tracklist value for value. A resequenced bootleg whose timings agree to the second is not a coincidence.
  • The elbo / music giants card - the row's own photograph is this card: same pink, same script logo, same series line, same spine number.
  • ZAiKS over BIEM and a Warsaw address - establishes Poland from the object. Territory-wide, so corroboration rather than a discriminator.
  • Catalogue number 1139 - the match axis, and it returns exactly one row in the whole master.
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Moonchild
  2. A2Infinite Dreams
  3. A3Can I Play With Madness
  4. A4The Evil That Men Do

Side B

  1. B1Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
  2. B2The Prophecy
  3. B3The Clairvoyant
  4. B4Only The Good Die Young

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.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

  • Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
  • Shell: light surface marks and handling wear are visible. No visible warping, tape spillage or shell damage in these photographs.

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 a running order the bootlegger rearranged. Only one Elbo row exists under this master, so the catalogue number alone would leave this at Probable - a single surviving candidate is never proof, because the version list is incomplete by construction.

What lifts it is that the object carries a second, sharper check. Whoever assembled this tape did not follow the album: three songs on side A, five on side B, Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son moved up to close side A. 22345432 records that exact sequence with the exact eight durations printed on this card, and its photograph is this card.

Standing caveat: an unofficial Polish cassette absent from Discogs cannot be excluded, and unofficial releases are the least completely catalogued part of any master.