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A Little Togetherness

Blackburn sounded exciting

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A Little Togetherness

A brief recollection of teenage northern soul combined with the middle-aged murder of a timeless classic.

 

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Round about 1970 was when I joined the in-crowd. I cut off my hair, learnt how to get my kicks out on the floor, and swore I'd just keep on keepin' on. Northern Soul was a unique phenomenon, youngsters from Lancaster down to Stoke seeking out the best American dance music the rest of the world seemed to ignore.

 

I have no idea how it began, although I seem to remember the Stax label becoming a crucial part of the northern music scene in the late sixties. I grew up in Blackburn and, when I was eleven or twelve, I heard about the Stax club that had opened up there. Suddenly, and almost impossibly, 'Blackburn' sounded exciting, the way 'Nashville' and 'Memphis' did ..

 

The full article can be read here

 

http://content21.wor...e-togetherness/

 

Hear a Northern Soul classic tortured and finally murdered.

 




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