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The Headmaster Ritual Rusholme Ruffians I Want The One I Can't Have What She Said That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore How Soon Is Now? * Nowhere Fast Well I Wonder Barbarism Begins At Home Meat Is Murder UK CD [Rough Trade ROUGHCD81]
Additional information: The 2006 Japanese cd reissue is slipped inside a mini-replica of the original Tokuma Japan LP sleeve. Even the inner sleeve, obi and label are replicas of the ones from the original LP pressing. The picture disc, the green vinyl, the white vinyl and the multi-coloured splatter LP editions on Rough Trade are actually bootleg reproductions made in 2007.
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Promotion: Argentina: White-label copies of the LP were distributed inside the usual stock sleeve for promotion. Australia: Promotion at the time of the album's original release was done via promo copies of the LP. These were identical to their stock counterparts, except for the black and white 'hat man' labels, and the gold stamp at the back of the sleeve. The Festival reissues from 1988 were promoted with copies of the stock LP with a DJ COPY NOT FOR SALE sticker on the label. Brazil: Promo LPs were stamped in red ink on the labels, and in gold on the back of the sleeve. Canada: Gold-stamped copies of the stock LP were distributed for promotion. The promo 7" mentioned on the "How Soon Is Now?" page served to promote this album as well as that single. France: Copies of the stock LP stamped DISQUE GRATUIT INTERDIT A LA VENTE in the sleeve's corner were dispatched for promotion of this album. Virgin in France also produced a 2-version promo 12" of "Barbarism Begins At Home" (Virgin SA3013), as did Rough Trade UK. Unlike them, the record wasn't slipped inside a picture sleeve, but a generic Virgin Records one, either blue or yellow or occasionally white with a Virgin sticker on it. Greece: Promotional versions of the LP were stamped or hole-punched. Holland: A one-sided promo 7" of "The Headmaster Ritual" (MD7999/01) was pressed in Holland to promote this album. Israel: Promotional copies of the LP had a record company sticker on the back. Italy: Stock copies of the LP were pin-stamped CAMPIONE GRATUITO in a corner of the sleeve and dispatched for promotion. Japan: Promotion of the original release was done via copies of the LP format with a white SAMPLE sticker on the sleeve and the usual extra 3-character promo text printed on the label. Promo cds for the 1987, 1990 and 1993 (and possibly 1995 and 1997) reissues have a promo sticker on the case and promo text on the cds' inner ring. The promo cd for the 2006 reissue in LP-replica sleeves have a white and red promo sticker on the back and 'sample loaned' etched on the cd's inner ring. USA: The main means of promotion of this album was through gold-stamped copies of the stock LP. A promo 12" of "The Headmaster Ritual" (Sire, PRO-A-2333) was also distributed in the USA in March of 1985 to promote this album. It had the album version on one side, and an edit by Phil Brown on the other (in die-cut sleeve, no artwork, view label in left bar). The promo 7" mentioned on the "How Soon Is Now?" page served to promote this album as well as that single. A press kit including a 3p bio and a 8x10 photo was sent to radio and other relevent media.
Quotes: Morrissey, March 1985: "I didn't really have any intention of being misunderstood with the words on this LP. A lot of people wrote about the first LP and they said things that were very poetic and interesting and absolutely inaccurate. So I just felt that on this LP people should really know which hammer I'm trying to nail, as it were."
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