Erotica

This picture disc was withdrawn after being pressed because the artwork, Madonna sucking a toe, was too close for comfort to an August 1992 news story of a royal (Sarah Ferguson) pictured having her toe sucked by her financial advisor by a swimming pool. All copies were taken from Orlake, where it was pressed, back to the head office to be destroyed. It is rumoured that 1 copy was taken from each box, of 138 boxes, and the rest destroyed. Fact is that copies were sold from the offices to a Liverpool record dealer, who sold them on to collectors and dealers, and it's highly unlikely one was taken from each box, more likely quite a number of boxes were just sold off, and the others destroyed. Incidentally, the same dealer sold a backing card from the original disc to the guy who made the counterfeit! Various counterfeit versions exist, which can be told apart from the official issue as a genuine "Erotica" picture disc: 1) carries a gold backing card, with the official "Madonna/Erotica" logo in the top-left corner. Counterfeit copies are usually missing this backing card. 2) has a white rectangular box containing its catalog # directly below the Maverick logo on the vinyl itself. Counterfeit copies are missing this box. 3) has "Orlake W0138TP" etched in the run-out groove of the vinyl. Counterfeit copies are missing these matrix etchings.