One Step Beyond…, UK, 1979

Format: 7″
Release date: 26/10/1979
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: BUY 56
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: UK 7 / IRE 28
Release notes: –

Tracks:
One Step Beyond… (short intro)
Mistakes

Hey you, don’t watch that, watch this

This is the heavy, heavy monster sound

One Step Beyond…

Spent 14 weeks in the top 75 (4 in the top 10), peaking at no. 7 at the end of November 1979.
Certified Silver (200,000) in December 1979.

‘One Step Beyond…’ master page

Sleeve

Glossy card picture sleeve with top opening, wide curve cut-out

There is a paper sleeve but this was possibly only available in the Six Pack

2 lines of credit on right below title (B-Side)

‘Mistakes’ – Copyright Control

Variant 1

CBS pressing. Label profile: 44mm lip, multiple rings/ridges

Variant 2

CBS pressing. Alternate label profile: slope from 62mm to 46mm, 32mm ridge, 26mm ring

Jukebox 1

As variant 1 but with large centre hole for Jukebox

4 lines of credit on right below title (B-Side)

‘Mistakes’ – Copyright Control

Variant 3

CBS pressing. Label profile: 44mm lip, multiple rings/ridges (as variant 1)

Variant 4

CBS pressing. Alternate label profile 1: slope from 62mm to 46mm, 32mm ridge, 26mm ring (as variant 2)

Variant 5

CBS pressing. Alternate label profile 2: 56mm lip, slope to 46mm, 32mm ring

Jukebox 2

As variant 4 but with large centre hole for Jukebox

CBS Pressings

Pressed at Aston Clinton plant in Buckinghamshire. Runouts also feature a plate ID (at 9 o’clock), usually an ‘A’ but can be any letter up to ‘F’.

Runouts (CBS variants 1 – 5) – any combination of A2, A4 and B1, B3:

A-Side: BUY-56-A2 A PORKY PRIME CUT NUT NUT NUTTY / BUY-56-A4 NUT NUT DON’T WATCH THAT. A PORKY PRIME CUT
B-Side: BUY-56-B-1 SA WATCH THIS / BUY-56-B3 PORKY WATCH THIS

I also have a variant 2 with A4 / B4 (BUY-56-B4 WATCH THIS PORKY)

A2, A4, B3, B4 Lacquer cut by George ‘Porky’ Peckham at Portland Studios, London W1

B1 Lacquer cut by ‘SA’ Steve Angel at Trident Studios, London W1

Variant 6 (Tranco)

Tranco (Pye) pressing. Label profile: slope from 56mm to 44mm, 38mm ring.

Jukebox (Tranco)

As variant 8 but with large centre hole for Jukebox

Runouts:

A-Side: BUY 56 A6 A PORKY PRIME CUT DON’T WATCH THAT / B-Side: BUY 56 B6 PORKY WATCH THIS

Tranco pressings also feature a number (usually 1 or 2) at 3 o’clock, and one or two letters at 9 o’clock.

Some copies appear translucent ruby red when held in front of a bright light.

4 lines of credit on left below title (B-Side)

‘Mistakes’ – Blackhill / Nutty Sounds / Warner Bros

Variant 7

CBS pressing. Label profile: 44mm lip, multiple rings/ridges (as variant 1)

This is the later version with updated publishing details. Usually found in a Stiff company bag. This version is the one most commonly found in the Six Pack in a ‘new’ paper picture sleeve.

Runouts – any combination of A2 and B1, B3:

A-Side: BUY-56-A2 A PORKY PRIME CUT NUT NUT NUTTY
B-Side: BUY-56-B-1 SA WATCH THIS / BUY-56-B3 PORKY WATCH THIS