Format: 7″
Release date: 14/5/1982
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: BUY 146
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 1
Release notes: –
Tracks:
House Of Fun
Don’t Look Back
The first and (so far) only number one single spent just 9 weeks on the chart, but hit the top spot at the end of May 1982, delaying Adam Ant’s ‘Goody Two Shoes’ by two weeks.
Certified Silver (200,000) in May 1982.
Sleeve
Variant 1
Glossy card sleeve, large curve cut-out at top of rear
Variant 2
Silky paper sleeve, large curve cut-out at top of rear
Labels
Variant 1
Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ring
Label profile: 44mm lip, 38mm hole
Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton (no lacquer cutting details)
Runouts – any combination of A5, A6 and B1, B2:
A-Side: BUY-146-A5 / BUY-146-A6
B-Side: BUY.146.B.1 CHEMIST FACADE / BUY.146.B.2 CHEMIST FACADE
Variant 2
Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ring
Label profile: 44mm lip, 38mm hole
Pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton (no lacquer cutting details)
Runouts – any combination of A5, A6 and B1, B2 (same as variant 1):
A-Side: BUY-146-A5 / BUY-146-A6
B-Side: BUY.146.B.1 CHEMIST FACADE / BUY.146.B.2 CHEMIST FACADE
Variant 3
Label profile: 44mm lip, 34mm ring. No gripper ring. This is the same pressing as the picture disc!
Pressed by Orlake, Dagenham, Essex
Runouts:
A-Side: P+BUY+146+A3 ORLAKE / B-Side: P+BUY+146+B4 ORLAKE
See also:
Picture Disc – PBUY 146
Promo – BUYDJ 146
There is a mispress of ‘After The Goldrush’ by Prelude on After Hours (AFT 02) that plays ‘House Of Fun’ (runout BUY-146-A5)
Image from Discogs – not in my collection
In Print
Sheet Music
4-page sheet music ‘KY16569’
Also available with pink header – not in my collection
1982E01