By the look of the few of its products that I've managed to track down, Fair World appears to have been a custom recording concern, the label of the studio of the same name. It seems not to have put dates on its records, but the Trilby EP shown above was pressed by Lyntone and has one of that company's matrix numbers pressed into the run-off; the number is LYN-7426, which tells us that the record was pressed in 1979. Fair World catalogue numbers seem to have varied widely: three of the four 7" examples I have happened upon were numbered in different series, as can be seen below, where I have listed the few Fair World singles and EPs that I have managed to trace. The only two in its GF-5000 series that I have seen pictured were on the 'Fairworld Music' label (2); again, they were undated. The company also made albums, but I've only managed to trace one of them, a self-titled LP by Paul G. Ambrose (GF-72). In the face of such a lack of evidence it's impossible to hazard much of a guess at when Fair World was in business - late '70s to early '80s would appear to be the best bet - or at how many records it issued. The fact that Tim Beale was both engineer and producer on the Trilby EP and engineer on the Mark Lewis EP suggests that the label, and the studio at which it was recorded, may have belonged to him.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.