"Pete could not get to grips with it and complained about paying the cost of it."
That sounds like Pete Waterman!!
Does this mean that the vocal sampling in SAW records (Mel and Kim for instance) is Fairlight sampled? I always thought it sounded more like an Emulator, which raises for me an interesting question. Is it easy to tell whether a Fairlight or Emulator has been used for (vocal) sampling?