Aquarius was a French label, based in Paris. Its sole mention in 'Music Week' came in the issue of the 24th of April 1976, which described it as one of the labels of the French A.J.A.C.K's. group and said that it was being handled by President. Previously there had been an advert in 'MW' for the 10th of April, which mentioned that Aquarius was joining the President group of companies. Most of the company's efforts appear to have been directed towards mainland Europe, and it only stayed with President for long enough to issue four singles in Britain, all of them in April / May 1976. Unsurprisingly only one label design was used throughout (1); promotional copies were marked with a small black 'A' at four o'clock, after the President fasion of the time (2). Aquarius never tasted success under its own banner over here, but it licensed material to other companies and its logo appeared on Patrick Hernandez's Gem label hit, 'Born To Be Alive' (GEM-4) in 1979. The link with Gem resulted in the short-lived Gem Aquarius label (q.v.). Aquarius records were marketed by President and distributed by Enterprise and Lugton; presumably President also handled manufacture, via its associated British Homophone factory. The singles were numbered in an AQ-0 series.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.