How rare is the Wrapped in Grey single?
In a recent interview with Record Collector magazine, Andy Partridge said that only 2,000 copies of the Wrapped in Grey single were pressed, and then Virgin withdrew the release. The single was originally to have been released on 7 September 1992. In his Wonderland XTC discography, Shigemasa Fujimoto claims that 500 copies of the CD-single were pressed, and that 450 of those copies were destroyed. Some number of copies of the 7-inch single were also pressed, and it is believed that most of those were destroyed by Virgin Records as well. Unfortunately, the exact number of 7-inch vinyl and CD singles pressed (and subsequently destroyed) will probably never be known. Suffice it to say that the Wrapped in Grey single, both in 7-inch vinyl and CD-single format, is very rare.
