The label of Fair World studios, of Chester-Le-Street, Co. Durham. By the look of the few of its products that I've managed to track down Fair World appears to have been a custom recording concern. Unfortunately it didn't put dates on its records, but the Trilby EP shown above (1) was pressed by Lyntone and has one of that company's matrix numbers pressed into the run-off; the number is LYN-7426, which tells us that the record was pressed in 1979. Fair World's catalogue numbers seem to have varied widely, as can be seen below, where I have listed such of its records that I have managed to trace. The early 1980s saw Fair World become Fairworld Music, and the label design changed; I don't usually include scans from the '80s but I've stuck this one up for the sake of interest (2). The lack of dates on the labels makes it difficult to make much of a guess at exactly when Fair World was in business; the earliest date given on sleeve notes was November 1978, while the label doesn't seem to have made it past the early '80s. The fact that Tim Beale was engineer and / or producer on the records up to and including GF-400 suggests that the label, and the studio at which it was recorded, may have belonged to him until at least that point; Alan Robson took over engineering duties afterwards.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.