Format: 7″
Release date: 27/11/1981
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: BUY 134
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 4
Release notes: –
Tracks:
It Must Be Love
Shadow On The House
Spent 12 weeks in the Top 75 including 6 in the top 10, peaking at no. 4 in January 1982. Fortunately for Dave Robinson who had bet the band if it wasn’t a top 5 hit he’d give them his company, Stiff Records!
Certified Silver (200,000) in December 1981, Gold (400,000) in January 1982 and Platinum (600,000) in March 2022.
Sleeve
Variant 1
Glossy card picture sleeve with wide curve cut-out at top
Variant 2
Matt paper picture sleeve with wide curve cut-out at top
Labels
Variant 1
Label profile: 44mm lip, 32mm ring
Label profile: 44mm lip, 38mm hole
Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1, pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton
Common in both card and paper sleeves
Runouts – any combination of A1, A2, A4 and B1, B2:
A-Side: BUY 134 A1 ARUN / BUY 134 A2 ARUN / BUY-134-A4
B-Side: BUY 134 B1 / BUY 134 B2
Variant 2
Label profile: slight slope from 56mm to 46mm, 32mm ring. Wider gripper ring than the UK pressing
Label profile: slight slope from 56mm to 46mm, 38mm hole
Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1, pressed by MPO, France
These French pressings have slightly different colour print on the sleeve and labels
Runouts (some have an X etched after ‘A3’ or ‘B3’:
A-Side: BUY 134 A3 ARUN / B-Side: BUY 134 B3 MPO
See also:
UK Promo BUY DJ 134
In Print
Sheet Music
4-page sheet music ‘MZ 20401’
1981N01