Sample Image10 photosWith Insert. DIsc has scratches and hairlines.
Available Pressings
Vinyl, LP x1Rough Trade25RTL-30151986Japan+ Insertfrom$183.00
Sample Image10 photosTracklist
- A1. The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (Medley))
- A2. Frankly, Mr Shankly
- A3. I Know It's Over
- A4. Never Had No One Ever
- A5. Cemetry Gates
- B1. Bigmouth Strikes Again
- B2. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
- B3. Vicar In A Tutu
- B4. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
- B5. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Notes
First pressing issued with the pink titles obi and 6-page fold-out insert including band photos, lyrics / credits in English and Japanese languages.
Additional Notes
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: T4988 008 01031 2
- Matrix / Runout: 25RTL-3015-A (Side A label)
- Matrix / Runout: 25RTL-3015-B (Side B label)
- Matrix / Runout: 25RTL-3015 A1 1A (Side A runout, stamped: Variant 1)
- Matrix / Runout: 25RTL-3015 B1 1A3 (Side B runout, stamped: Variant 1)
- Matrix / Runout: 25RTL-3015 A1 1A3 (Side A runout, stamped: Variant 2)
- Matrix / Runout: 25RTL-3015 B1 1A2 (Side B runout, stamped: Variant 2)
- Price Code: ¥2,500
- Rights Society: JASRAC
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Vinyl, LP x1Rough TradeROUGH 961986UK+ Inner Sleevefrom$115.00
Sample Image8 photosTracklist
- A1. The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (Medley)
- A2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
- A3. I Know It's Over
- A4. Never Had No One Ever
- A5. Cemetry Gates
- B1. Bigmouth Strikes Again
- B2. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
- B3. Vicar In A Tutu
- B4. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
- B5. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Notes
Recorded in England, Winter 1985.
Gatefold sleeve.
Printed inner sleeve.
Some copies with folded A2 black and white poster with the same image as inside of gatefold.
Also a (very similar) MPO pressing of 8368319 exists.
Additional Notes
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Label Code: LC 5661
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-1U-1-1- FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 1)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-1U-1-1- THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 1)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-1U-1-1- x1 FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 2)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-2U-1- 1-x1 THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 2)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-2U-1-1 ·7 FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 3)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-1U-1-1 ⇀THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 3)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-1U-1-2- FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 4)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-2U-1- 1-x1 THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 4)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-1U-1-4 - 2 FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 5)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-1U-1-2 - x4 THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 5)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-2U-1- 1 x1 FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 6)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-2U-1- 1 - x1 THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 6)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-1U-1-1 ⇀ x FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 7)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-2U-1-1 ⇀ x1 THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 7)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-1U-1- 1 ⇀ 1 FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 8)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-1U-1-1 ⇀ x1 THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 8)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-1U-1- FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 9)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-1U-1- THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 9)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 A-2U-1-1 ⇀ x1 FEAR OF MANCHESTER (Stamped runout side A, variant 10)
- Matrix / Runout: ROUGH 96 B-1U-1-1 ⇀ x1 THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS (Stamped runout side B, variant 10)
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Vinyl, 12" x1Warner Bros. Records12QID2017, 01902959053472017UK & Europefrom$54.00
Sample Image4 photosTracklist
- A. The Queen Is Dead
- B1. Oscillate Wildly
- B2. Money Changes Everything
- B3. The Draize Train
Notes
Sold exclusively at brick-&-mortar shops. Not an RSD release.
Issued in a side opening sleeve. Spine with text. Plain inner.
Package came shrink-wrapped.
Made in the EU
Front image from Vangelo secondo Matteo ©1964 STUDIOCANAL - Arco Films.
Edited version of "The Queen Is Dead" previously released on How Soon Is Now?.
The three B-side tracks, which are the only Smiths instrumental tracks, had never previously been compiled for release on one single unit.
Additional Notes
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 190295905347 (Scanned)
- Barcode: 0 190295 905347 (Printed)
- Label Code: LC02982
- Matrix / Runout: 12QID2016-A G-2 RM 0190295905347 BG49634-01 A2 V+ (Side A runout - etched)
- Matrix / Runout: 12QID2016-B G-2 RM 0190295905347 BG49634-01 B2 (Side B runout - etched)
- Rights Society: GEMA/MCPS
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