Updated and expanded second edition of this Award Nominated book (nominated for the 2014 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research). B&C started life as a distribution company, 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 artists in its own right and many of B&C's labels concentrated on singles and budget compilation albums - 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 comprehensive discographies covering the Action, Stable, B&C, Charisma, Pegasus, Peg, People, Mooncrest, Dragon, Sussex and Seven Sun labels.

Foreword to the digital version of the 2nd edition of this award-nominated discography, B&C Records - a short history, Source information, Label designs, 7" label designs, LP label designs, Pressing companies used by B&C, Sources used in lists, Release and deletion dates, Recommended retail price, Discography, Action, ACLP/ACLS sequence LPs, ACMP sequence LP, ACT 4500 sequence 7" singles, ACT 4600 sequence 7" singles, ACT 100 sequence 7" singles, Promotional 7" EP, Stable, SLP sequence LP, SLE sequence LPs, STA sequence 7" single, Promotional 7" EP, B&C and Charisma, CAS sequence LPs (B&C and Charisma), BCB sequence LP (B&C), BCM sequence LPs (B&C), CS/DCS sequence LPs/double LPs (Charisma), CLASS sequence LPs (Charisma), CADS sequence double LP (Charisma), TSS sequence double LP (Charisma), CGS sequence double LPs (Charisma), CB sequence 7" singles (B&C and Charisma), Promotional 7" singles (B&C and Charisma), Flexidiscs, Pegasus and Peg, PEG sequence LPs, PS sequence LPs, Tape versions of CAS sequence LPs, PGS sequence 7" singles, Promotional 7" records, Mooncrest, CREST sequence LPs, MOON sequence 7" singles, People, PLEO sequence LPs, PLED sequence double LP, PLE sequence tape-only release, PEO sequence 7" singles, Promotional 7" EP, Dragon, DRLS sequence LPs, DRA sequence 7" singles, Sussex, LPSX sequence LPs, LPDX sequence double LP, SSX sequence 7" singles, Seven Sun, SSUN sequence 7" singles, And finally - a last-ditch cross-label tape-only hits package