Recorded music history: The B&C Discography
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The B&C Discography 1968-1975 (2nd Edition)
The 1st edition was nominated for the 2014 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Research (Rock Music Discographies).
The B&C Discography 1968-1975 (2nd Edition)
B&C started life as a distribution company, Beat and Commercial, which was set up as a sister company to Island. Island's early success led B&C's owner, Lee Gopthal, to start releasing records in his own right. However, B&C's main strategy was based on licensing records rather than signing and controlling artists directly and many of B&C's labels concentrated on singles and budget compilation albums, which were less lucrative than full-priced LPs – strategies that set the seeds of the company's own destruction. The end, when it came in 1975 was probably inevitable.
Still, whilst B&C was about, some very good music got released, almost despite itself on occasion. This book includes a detailed history that discusses the organisational set-up at B&C, supported by memories from those who worked with or alongside B&C, along with comprehensive discographies covering all known vinyl records, cassettes and 8-Tracks on the Action, Stable, B&C, Charisma, Pegasus, Peg, People, Mooncrest, Dragon, Sussex and Seven Sun labels.
Note that B&C-era Charisma is covered in much more depth in The Famous Charisma Discography.
Still, whilst B&C was about, some very good music got released, almost despite itself on occasion. This book includes a detailed history that discusses the organisational set-up at B&C, supported by memories from those who worked with or alongside B&C, along with comprehensive discographies covering all known vinyl records, cassettes and 8-Tracks on the Action, Stable, B&C, Charisma, Pegasus, Peg, People, Mooncrest, Dragon, Sussex and Seven Sun labels.
Note that B&C-era Charisma is covered in much more depth in The Famous Charisma Discography.
The 1st edition is still available for completists, though it includes only limited coverage of Charisma, so as not to duplicate content available in The Famous Charisma Discography. However, feedback from the Awards body suggested that duplication of pre-existing material would have been beneficial - hence expanding the book for the second edition.
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