On Stage - Canada 12" Single: Second Issue

This is the second issue release of the Canadian 12" single for On Stage. The record jacket and artwork are fairly identical to the first issue release. If you take a look at the back of the jacket along the bottom left and right-hand corners, you will see two noticeably darker looking rectangles. The one on the right is considerably larger than the one on the left. These rectangles appear on all Canadian issues. In all likelihood they just copied a sleeve from elsewhere for the Canadian issue and needed a way to cover certain elements.

The inner sleeve for the record is just a plain white one. There's also no insert of any kind with this release, so you don't get any of the extra photos you would typically find in the 7" gatefold releases or in other versions of the 12".

Second issue record labels are completely different to first issue labels. First issue labels are two tone green with a large Harvest logo and lettering. The song titles are also printed in black using a completely different style font.

On Stage - Japan 12" Release

When I originally posted this with photos, I only took photos showing the front and back of the record jacket as my copy was still sealed in its original shrink wrap plastic. However, since I've had this for so many years, the seam on the plastic has been slowly splitting over time. As I'm now attempting to redo everything on here with scans, I decided to finish opening this up so that I could take full scans of everything inside.

The Japanese record jacket has the same artwork as all other releases. The biggest difference between this release and other ones is the obi-strip... the wraparound piece of paper featured on the left-hand side. An obi-strip is typically found on LPs, 12" singles and CDs. They can contain marketing information, details about an album, and in some cases be elaborately designed. They are also highly collectable, and in a lot of cases have more value than the release itself. If you intend on collecting Japanese pressings make sure that the obi-strip is still intact. A lot of the value is gone on pressings where the obi-strip is missing, so keep that in mind.

This release also comes with a two page double-sided insert. The first side features all the photos found inside the 7" single. The opposite side has a few additional photos of Kate, along with the printed lyrics for the 4 tracks on this EP (English and Japanese) and some kind of written article on Kate written in Japanese.

The record comes in a clear plastic sleeve, and the record labels are fairly identical to how the UK ones appeared at that time.