Did it feel like a unique moment in time, or did it feel like it could go on forever?

No, I think it did.

I actually think it did, weirdly.

And, um, even as we were in it, I think there was a funny kind of almost conscious feeling that, oh, you know, something is kind of happening there.

It was just something about the kind of zeitgeist of the time.

And it was a brilliant time to work in music, I have to say, because it was like, it was the kind of mid-'80s and then going into the late '80s and, you know, the sudden, the Manchester scene, but also the kind of club scene and acid house and just really, really sort of exciting times.

And, uh, London Records definitely seemed to be at the absolute kind of heart of that.

As Colin Bell recalls, the ones that got away were huge.