Corey Hart – Boy in the Box (1985 / EMI America / Promo / Jacksonville Pressing / Upside Down Cover / LP)

Corey Hart – Boy in the Box (1985 / EMI America / Promo / Jacksonville Pressing / Upside Down Cover / LP)

A factory-sealed Mint promo pressing of Corey Hart's 1985 second album on EMI America — a Jacksonville plant LP with an upside down cover, pristine and unplayed. Media grades Mint (M). Sleeve grades Mint (M). Promo copy; upside down cover as noted.

Released in 1985, Boy in the Box is Corey Hart's second album and the one that produced "Never Surrender" — his highest-charting single, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and establishing the Montreal-born artist as one of the most commercially successful Canadian pop and synth-pop voices of the mid-1980s, a peer of Loverboy, Glass Tiger, and the broader Canadian new wave and AOR scene that dominated North American radio during the period. The album builds directly on the momentum of "Sunglasses at Night" from his 1984 debut and delivers the kind of polished, hook-driven production that EMI America developed consistently across their mid-decade roster. This copy is a promo pressing on the Jacksonville, IL plant — EMI's Capitol-affiliated domestic pressing facility, whose pressings are specifically documented for this label and era — and it carries the most immediately distinctive feature of any copy in this catalog: the cover is printed and assembled upside down. Whether a manufacturing error or an intentional promo variant, an upside down cover on a sealed Mint promo original from 1985 is precisely the kind of detail that separates a copy from the standard secondary market pool. The sleeve grades Mint despite the promo designation and the inverted assembly — the copy is pristine, unplayed, and exactly as unusual as it sounds.

• Format: LP, Album
• Pressing: Jacksonville (EMI / Capitol Jacksonville, IL)
• Edition: Original, 1985, Promo
• Label: EMI America – ST-17161
• Genre: Pop Rock, Synth-Pop
• Note: Upside down cover — manufacturing error or promo variant; sealed and unplayed
• Media Condition: Mint (M) — factory sealed, unplayed
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M) — promo copy; upside down cover

Sealed Mint promo, Jacksonville pressing, upside down cover — Never Surrender, Boy in the Box, Corey Hart on EMI America, 1985. Exactly as unusual as it sounds, in the condition it deserves. A copy like this rarely surfaces.

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