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   I'm the one that originally brought up the fade oddity, 

on Madonna Infinity. 

No, the fade is not longer, but it's a bit louder, which 

indicates to me that it could be a recreated fade. The 

fade is louder after a certain point... it decays more 

slowly than the actual 45, but it stops at the same 

point. There is also no tape hiss audible at the very end 

of the song at all.

Whether this is indicative of a recreation, or whether 

the edit was faded live on-the-fly during the first 45 

mastering and all future pressings were made from the 

backup cutting master, necessitating a digital recreation 

if they were going to use the first-generation edit, I'm 

not sure. 

I have also suspected that of the digital 7" version of 

"Holiday," since that had a longer fadeout than the 45 

but the edit points seem to be correct.