What's on the record?
Why would Morrissey be writing catalogue numbers on a factory test press? by 1989 would he still
have been interested enough in the record making process to be in a manky factory to be there for the birth of a new baby? I doubt it. and being asked to put the catalogue number on rather than the title cant see it personally, either way nice thing.
Why would Morrissey be writing catalogue numbers on a factory test press? by 1989 would he still have been interested enough in the record making process to be in a manky factory to be there for the birth of a new baby? I doubt it. and being asked to put the catalogue number on rather than the title cant see it personally, either way nice thing.
Artists are often given test pressings by people at the label as a type of gift. I know Morrissey is given promos and test pressings from label reps/execs. He might have written the serial number on it so he'd know what it was when it went into his collection. He was probably also still excited to have a record with a "POP ____" serial numbers, as the label and designation was resurrected for him, as a POP release hadn't been issued since the late '60s.
Wait--aren't you answering your own question?
Artists are often given test pressings by people at the label as a type of gift.