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bass [bass player] Adam Clayton
crew Joe O'Herlihy
crew John Kennedy
crew Pod
design, layout Bono
design, layout Rapid Exteriors
drums [drummer] Larry Mullen
engineer Paul Thomas
engineer [assistant] Kevin Moloney
guitar [guitar player] The Edge
lacquer cut by, mastered by John Dent
management Paul McGuinness
management [agent dublin] David A. Kavanagh
management [agent dublin] Road Runner
management [agent london] Ian Wilson
management [agent london] Wasted Talent
photography by [boy] Hugo McGuinness
photography by [u2] Phil Sheehy
producer Steve Lillywhite
tour manager Tim Nicholson
vocals [singer] Bono
written-by U2
Recorded At Windmill Lane Studios
Lacquer Cut At The Sound Clinic
Distributed By EMI Records Ltd.
Manufactured By EMI Records Ltd.
Published By Blue Mountain Music Ltd.
Phonographic Copyright (p) Island Records Ltd.
Record Company EMI Records Ltd.
Pressed By EMI Records
Released with EMI RECORDS LTD... mentioned on matt labels.

All the first press and promotional copies of the first UK singles 11 O'clock Tick Tock (05/1980), A Day Without Me (08/1980) and I Will Follow (10/80) have the rim text on bottom labels that start with EMI Records Ltd.. This text was changed to All Rights of the Producer... later, supposedly in 1981. For the above reasons, UK copies of Boy with rim text on labels that start with EMI Records Ltd. are the earliest.

The cover is matt and the heavy cardboard inner, with lyric and pic, has round corners.

This release has a short (approximately 30 seconds) unlisted and uncredited track at the end of the second side after Shadows and Tall Trees. It is a demo of Fire. The track is not separated into its own band on the vinyl though it is visibly discernible.
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646-A (Side A label)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646-B (Side B label)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 A - 2U 5 1 (Side A, Variant 1 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 B - 1U 10 2 (Side B, Variant 1 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 A - 2U 8 1 1 (Side A, Variant 2 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 B - 1U 8 1 2 (Side B, Variant 2 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 A - 2U 2 6 2 (Side A, Variant 3 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 B - 1U 3 0 2 (Side B, Variant 3 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 A - 2U 9 1 (Side A, Variant 4 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: ILPS 9646 B - 1U 9 1 (Side B, Variant 4 stamped)
Matrix / Runout: Jonz (Side A, all Variants etched)
Matrix / Runout: SOUND CLINIC (Side B, all Variants etched)