I was in one of Nashville's many used record stores yesterday and found a mint copy (+ picture sleeve, US release) of A Kind Of Magic/A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling. I played it last night (not a pop or skip...amazing!) and the B-side on the 45 was labelled Gimme The Prize...which is what the song was. I got my original 1986 copy out of my collection and the B-side was indeed A Dozen Red Roses For My Darling. Capitol screwed up again, to my advantage -- the 12" version has Gimme The Prize as a B-side. Someone was asleep at the press again...
Anyone else have this version?
There were two AKOM 7" singles in the US. One with ADRRFMD as the b-side and one with GTP (the one with GTP is the rare one). Probably some recordshop/dealer/someone accidently put the wrong 7" in the sleeve.
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To my information (which is in this case totally based on collector's sites and databases, rather than personal experience) GTP was the b-side of AKOM for all commercially available 7" and 12" releases in the US. However, the sleeve of the 7" states the wrong b-side (that is, all 7-inches come with that mistake on the sleeve.
I'm not sure about its value (it's $ 20 according the database on Ron's site).
If there were copies with "Roses" instead of GRP, I'd have guessed that these were the rarer ones.
However, Pim is probably correct.
Ooh -- that's so nice to know! Thanks to both of you for clearing that confusion. The promo copy (no picture sleeve) has AKOM on both sides and it is a white label. The 45 bought new is the correct one then!
Capitol Records does not surprise me. I worked for them for a year and a half in the 80s and they used to have record shops return some albums to the distribution centre because (for example) there was a Duran Duran album in a Paul McCartney sleeve. This seems to be the same scenario with the Queen 45 so many years later!
No, I got out of that years ago and went into the medical industry. I'm a patient counsellor for a multi-specialty physicians' group!
I'm still a rabid collector to this day. The 45 you mention is the original I got in 1986 (non-promotional, a regular release). The one I mentioned at the beginning of this thread is the one I found this weekend at a used record store (though the sleeve and record looked like it had never been circulated, not even a fingerprint on the sleeve!) and paid $4 for it. After I got home and took the record out and saw the B-side, I had to write and ask after consulting many old Record Collector magazines and resource books I have on Queen items because none had this mentioned at all. Not even as a rarity, which is odd!