As far as this site is concerned, Public only just squeezed in: it made its first appearance in November 1979, with a Punk / New Wave single, Urban Gypsy's, 'Japanese Girls' (PUB-001). The company issued at least five singles in 1979-80, with distribution by Spartan; the one shown above is a slice of '80s Rock 'n' Roll, while PUB-005 was the interestingly-titled, 'Naked Robots Watching Breakfast Television', by ex-Nirvana man Patrick Campbell-Lyons. A couple of singles by the Roy Harper Band, 'No One Gets Out Alive', came out on a Public label in 1982, with catalogue numbers of PUBS-1001 and 1002, but the label design is different and they seem to have been released by a different company.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.