A member of the RCA family. Gem offered a varied bill of fare, from the Disco of Patrick Hernandez to the Punk of the V.I.P.s; its biggest singles act were the U.K. Subs, who took it into the chart six times between 1979 and 1981. My own personal favourite single on Gem was Bob Morgan's 'Marguerite': a Reggae-flavoured instrumental which had featured as incidental music on the children's television programme 'Vision On' some years earlier. Numbering was in the GEMS-0s. Gem was linked with the Aquarius label (q.v.): at first the Aquarius logo appeared on the appropriate records (2), but soon a fully-fledged Gem Aquarius label was used (q.v.). The discography below only covers the 1970s.
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