Kevin Sutton asked if I knew what had transpired at Collins Classics.

I am afraid I know little of what happened If anything).  A consultant
to someone or other (probably representing a potential buyer but they were
never identified to me) asked me to write a brief assessment of the label
and its artistic/commercial value, which I did.  I heard nothing else after
that.

The label had been created by the book publisher and was eventually sold,
I think, to a distributor called Pinnacle in Kent (on the edge of the SE
suburbs of London), a company which is very heavily into the pop world.
They had officies at that address and one or two people from the original
label were retained there to run it, I believe.  I assume that sale didn't
go through (I was asked, similarly, for comments on Olympia at the same
time; the same people may have had an eye on them too; as far as I know
nothing happened there either).

Incidentally I formed an association with Pinnacle c.1985, in the creation
of a new classical arm for that company, trading under the name of < D
Sharp >.  The operation was based initially on the numerous labels that
followed me out of the unlamented Conifer Records.  "D Sharp" managed a
few releases under the label of that name.

Clearly "D" wasn't "sharp" enough for within a year, and due almost
entirely to the character and ignorance of the classical market of the
Pinnacle "partner", it was agreed that I could withdraw my remaining
capital and leave.  It was closed down a year later as there was nobody
left to run it!

John G. Deacon
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