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.