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Uploading promo label image

More than seven years later, I have an answer to Graham7's question. Labels for stock copy with solid centre uploaded.

At the time, there was a chart rule only allowing 3 formats to count toward the chart (supposed to stop multiple purchases from one person but obviously failing because you could still release eg 2 CDs and a cassette with the 2 CDs having different tracks so absolutely...

Single edit from CD: [YouTube Video]

While it appears to have been released in 1989 in the US, the UK release was on March 19, 1990, according to Music Week, 17 March 1990, p. 39. Mod edit: release date corrected

The Label Code "1056" on the hidden image #2222017 (named "a-side") is different from the currently shown images ("7266").

Yes. Phonogram (owners of Mercury) churned out those plastic labelled records at their Walthamstow plant but most other UK plants at the time still used paper labels so there was always a paper design as well. It would be random what version would happen to be shipped to...

CBS had their own rival to NOW in the "Hits Album / Hits Tape" series... although this didn't make it onto Hits 11 (aka Monster Hits)... it likely wouldn't have been predicted to be a big hit so not on that one (released for Christmas 1989) and then too old by the time Monster Hits 2 came out in 1990...

It looks to me like a standard London (Decca) pressing from circa 1960, using some old labels (the same used in the tri-centre version we have on image 1932111). We have other similar pressings like HLU 8275 although I think this is the first time we have one where we...

I see this charting at WAKE in Atlanta in December 1961. So I'm wondering if it was re-released?

Just found a mint demo for 20p.

Probably the (P) on the right side right, just to the left of 1980.

I would say it needs to be axed right here then. :-]

This single was only released on a 78 rpm, the same as Blue lake 103.