New Order Blue Monday 12" Factory FAC 73 1983 A1/B1 Original Play Tested VG+/EX
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Description
New Order — Blue Monday — 12" (Factory FAC 73)
An early original 1983 UK pressing of "Blue Monday" — the best-selling 12" single of all time and one of the defining records of the decade. This copy carries the first-stamper matrices and the classic Factory run-out messages, housed in the iconic Peter Saville die-cut sleeve modelled on a 5¼" floppy disk with its colour-coded edge. Backed with "The Beach."
Tracklisting
- A: Blue Monday
- B: The Beach
Details & Pressing
- Label: Factory Communications Ltd
- Catalogue number: FAC 73
- Year: 1983
- Format: 12" vinyl single
- Run-out matrices: FAC-73-A-1 (first stamper) / FAC-73-B-1 (first stamper)
- Matrix / Runout (Side A : FAC-73-A-1 MT.6 G4 STRAWBERRY OUT VOTED!
- Matrix / Runout (Side B : FAC-73-B-1 MT.6 G4 HO.EL + TEL! STRAWBERRY
- Produced by New Order; engineered by Michael Johnson
- Sleeve design: Peter Saville (die-cut floppy-disk sleeve, unprinted reverse)
Condition
Vinyl: VG+/EX. Plays great throughout with no skips. Glossy surface with only light hairlines visible under a lamp. Circular label bright and clean. this record could do with a good clean as its been stored for years
Sleeve: The Saville sleeve is clean with only minimal wear — light handling wear to corners/edges consistent with age, colour-coded edge intact.
Postage
Sent via fully tracked delivery, packaged flat in a proper record mailer with stiffeners.
Please check my other items — happy to combine postage where possible.
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