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 Home page: www.ctv.es/USERS/j.deacon