Added scans of a variation of the issue without barcode,front matches image 205578 exactly.
The inlay reverse has different text under "EMI Records Ltd.",and,strangely,makes mention of "Dolby",even though "Dolby" is not mentioned on the cassette itself,when compared to image 205580.
A classmate gave me this tape, apparently to make some sort of statement after he'd decided that Duran Duran were better than The Beatles. I had all of the tracks already but was happy to accept the gesture and not be drawn into an argument.
Ahhhh... I see..... EMI stock-piling inlays, aye! Of course it sounds completely feasible. Thanks for pointing this out.
Reminds me of this kind of mix-up with the Beatles' Danish LPs. Many of the records themselves were pressed in Denmark, but all the sleeves had "Printed by Garrod & Lofthouse, London" on them. So what did they do then - import the sleeves, but press the records domestically? It's the kind of logistical nightmare that only The British Empire could come up with...
.....where do you park your Time And Relative Dimension In Space rig, and has it got a Pioneer KP-301 Dolby B Cassette/Radio player in it?
...my 1976 wheels had one.
ooops, I read 1982, as 1972.
Please remember that Inlay Cards like LP and singles labels and LP + EP sleeves were printed up in advance of the vinyl or tape. Tapes could be duplicated, or vinyl pressed at short notice, so it is quite feasible that the inlay could be years out of date from the cassette shell. Why would the manufacture not use them if the release was "still in print" and the cat.# had not changed.
Re; Woolworths, that's where I started retailing, and cassettes were housed in freestanding lockable, (of course) carousels. The little darlings at Brixton used to come in the store with a steel tyre (tire) lever, and when unobserved would jemmy part of the rack out of shape, and make of with 6 or more cassettes at a time. I actually saw one doing it, and gave chase, but he got away. A fleet footed 14/15 year old scroat, who could run like Linford Christie.
Added scans of the 1973-1993-period “dark metallic gold inlay” type, purchased in 1982.
1 cassette, Double Play Tape, white cassette shell, printed with blue ink. Only the Dolby B Double-D logo on this issue.
1 inlay, Front: brown metallic Gold-inlay series, printer identification is DP (Data Packing Corp.), and printing date is June 1973 (“7306”) on inner flap. Song titles, composer and publishing info. Apple logo on back flap.
Reverse: Lower-case-lettered “the stereo musicassette” info, plus EMI blurb – black ink, as per Kab’s later issue with barcode.
Presumed date would be around 1980 for printing perhaps – EMI used the same metallic gold inlay design for this and the “Red” cassette issue, right up until 93, and didn’t issue a lighter-brown version during the 77-83 period.
Strange that they also didn’t change the date of the printing too – this cassette was bought in 1982, but the date on the inner flap says 1973, and I can’t think that buying it new in Woolworths in 1982, they still would have had original 1973 inlays in them, especially when the tape is a 77-82 blue-ink variety…
...but stranger things have happened… EMI must have gone into hands-rubbing-together overload in the years after John Lennon was shot...