
First-year pressing
Never Turn Your Back On A Friend 1973 UK Pressing (MDKS 8010)
- Artist
- Budgie
- Title
- Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
- Labels
- MCA Records MDKS 8010
- MCA Records MAPS 6624
- Country
- UK
- Released
- June 1973
- Format
- LP, Album, Stereo
- Format notes
- Gatefold
Runout and matrix codes
Etched or stamped in the dead wax between the last track and the label. If yours match, you have this pressing.
- 7-LNMG 277Side A label
- 7-LNMG 278Side B label
- 7-LNMG-277-2L H 1Side A runout stamped variant 1
- 7-LNMG-278-1LSide B runout stamped variant 1
- 7-LNMG-277-2L 1Side A runout stamped variant 2
- 7-LNMG-278-1L C 1Side B runout stamped variant 2
- 7-LNMG-277-2L I 1Side A runout stamped variant 3
- 7-LNMG-278-1L K 1Side B runout stamped variant 3
- 7-LNMG-278-1L BB 1Side A runout stamped variant 4
- 7-LNMG-278-1L A 1Side B runout stamped variant 4
Other UK pressings of Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
- 1973MCA Records MDKS 8010LP, Album, Promo
- 1974MCA Records MCG 3513 / MCA Records 0C 064 ◦ 94981LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
- 2014Noteworthy Productions NP23VLP, Album, Misprint, Reissue
- 2014Noteworthy Productions NP23VLP, Album, Reissue
- 2020Noteworthy Productions NP23VLP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo
- 2025Noteworthy Productions NP23VPDLP, Album, Picture Disc, Reissue, Stereo
- ?MCA Records MCL 1855LP, Album, Reissue
- ?MCA Records MCL 1855LP, Album, Test Pressing, Reissue
- ?MCA Records MCG 3513 / MCA Records 0C 064 ◦ 94981LP, Album, Reissue
- ?MCA Records MCG 3513 / MCA Records MDKS 8010LP, Album, Reissue
- ?MCA Records MCG 3513 / MCA Records MAPS 6624LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo