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The Gospel According Too Dave Godin By Pete Lawson

part homage to Dave Godin, part Pete's view of the scene

By Chalky in Soul Music News
Published 02 Sep 2012

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Towards the end of the 80's one of the Rare/Northern Soul Scene's most colourful characters, Pete Lawson, published two issues of his magazine "The Gospel According To Dave Godin".

Part homage to Dave Godin, part Pete's view of the scene, the people involved and not so involved who thought they were. Pete was sometimes very critical of those who he thought gave little and took a lot, some of Pete's views can be seen as harsh, some of his views are without doubt highly amusing. The magazines are however a good insight into how the scene was post Stafford and lurching into the 90's with a jolt.

The third issue Pete was tragically killed before he could publish. It was printed in his memory unfinished and complete with edit notes.

If you fancy a read of all three issues of Pete Lawson's magazines "The Gospel According To Dave Godin" then they are free to download as either a PDF or ePub file for those with iPads etc. The PDF will also open in iBooks on the iPad.

All three are for download. The two that actually got published by Pete and the third which he was working on at the time of his death.

All three are on my site under Magazines and reviews.

http://www.soulunder...magsandreviews/



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Seano

Thanks for the nudge Chalky - didn't see these when you first posted them. Tremendous sense of commitment comes across even now, 25 years on.

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Listened yesterday to the interview podcast Chalky. Excellent stuff, you never forget Pete's voice, especially if you've been on the wrong side of it ;)

Really great podcast, thanks for uploading it.

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Just read this...As you probably know Karl, Stuart helped Pete with these magazines, design layout etc. He was at our house a lot of the time when they were being produced. I have just found all of Pete's letters he sent regarding the magazines whilst cleaning some drawers out!!!! Some are funny, some are sad as he wasn't in a great place when all this was happening. However its a bit of Pete Lawson history that has put a smile on my face :). God bless him he was mad as a box of frogs :)

 

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Just read this...As you probably know Karl, Stuart helped Pete with these magazines, design layout etc. He was at our house a lot of the time when they were being produced. I have just found all of Pete's letters he sent regarding the magazines whilst cleaning some drawers out!!!! Some are funny, some are sad as he wasn't in a great place when all this was happening. However its a bit of Pete Lawson history that has put a smile on my face :). God bless him he was mad as a box of frogs :)

 

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Hi Penny.  Yes I was aware of Stuart's help.  I'd have loved to have seen Pete putting these together, I can just imagine the rants as well as the laughs :lol:

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