MASSIVE new book (300+ pages!)

    A lavish, fully illustrated deluxe book, an official history, from the label’s archivist, historian Laurence Cane-Honeysett

    Includes hundreds of photographs, record sleeves, labels and archive material, much of it not seen for many years.

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