Ted Perry was a singular voice in the music business. He founded and ran Hyperion as a small recording label and “modest as it was, Hyperion became a marque of musical conscience, a reproach at the preposterous Classical Brits to the fixed smiles of the bottom-liners and their forgettable novelties. ‘When I first knew him, he was driving a minicab at nights to pay the musicians he recorded by day. The gleam in his eye was an urge to share good music with anyone who might love it – chaps like himself, without social pretensions or academic qualifications, whose grey horizons could be tinted by an exposure to aural glories.”