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Recently had word passed on regarding a book that may be of interest to members of a certain age or outlook... Coronation Baby, Council House Kid, The 1970s: A Soulcial History  'a social/urban history for those who were there', The 1950s hailed a rapid change and a bright future for many, an exciting new Elizabethan age with over a million new council homes built for returning soldiers and those in need, for their new and growing families. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proclai

Details of a recent release from Acid Jazz Records Matt Berry Featuring Emma Noble - Beatmaker / Beatmaker (Instrumental) - Acid Jazz Records - AJX635S This cover of the 1970s psych funk classic by Swedish artist Doris recently had its first outing via the first episode of 'Toast of Tinseltown', a BBC series starring Matt Berry. It's a limited-edition picture sleeve 7" vinyl release, along with a smart picture sleeve you also get as a first time exclusive the instrumental version.

Published today a 'straight-talking no-holds-barred autobiography' from one of the more enjoyable twitter accounts to follow Karl Phillips aka Bootlegger or The Captain, details follows..,, Karl Phillips is just one of the lads – roofer by day, pilsner drinker by night. But as Bootlegger, he’s scored hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube with his hilarious matchday vlogs and keeps a huge number of followers on social media hooked with his humorous musings on life, work, the Flamethrow

A fair bit of background work has been going on over the last few weeks. Part of these improvements have been a revision of the site structure which is now in place. We have revised the structure and the order of our site main features in order to improve the navigation of the site and to a lesser extent reflect the current use, demands and so on of the Soul Source site. The current stucture listed below... Main Features of Soul Source These are the primary features of Soul Source

The Guardian is running an interview and feature on Ewan Spencer, details and link folow below ‘We’ve always been very good at enjoying ourselves’: Ewen Spencer’s photographs of a lost clubbing generation In the late 1990s, the photographer shot images of dancers at niche London club nights. He reflects on how smartphones have changed the scene, and how his pictures became a book     These pictures aren’t   about Teds, Skinheads, Northern Soul, Acid House or Jungle

Highlight and news about our 'share' feature here on Soul Source May be aware, but as we have just added a new service and tweaked things a bit feel a timely update shout may be worthwhile, here are... Share Links Feature Any of our/your Soul Source content be it Forum topics/posts, Event Guide Events/Comments Gallery Images/Albums, Forum Sales/Wants Source Store 45s/Cds Videos, Newsletters, can all be shared to many socail  features including po

Stuart Cosgrove: Apologies alone are not enough to atone for racism An interesting article from Stuart Cosgrove shows up on The National newspaper website. Known to many on here as the author of such books as Detroit67, Memphis68, Young Soul Rebels and more, the author passes on his take on the current mainstream media's reaction to the killing of George Floyd. It was inevitable that George Floyd’s killing would reverberate arounds the media and lead to an outpouring of self-recriminat

Granada Reports ITV carried an interesting news story last Friday all about US Soul singer Jimmy Hamilton celebrating his 80th birthday in Chorley Lancashire.   The background to this clip starts back in the 1970s, when Granada Tv made a documentary in their series 'This England'. This episode was titled 'The Realistics In Belfast' and was first broadcast on 21st June 1976 (a brief clip of this documentary was featured on Outta Sites Records facebook page and was also featured in our

The Intrigues: Lost Philly Soul Recording Discovered.  Press Release: The Intrigues   “If The Shoe Fits”   SJLP 5013 & SJCD 5013  Release Date: Monday September 18th 2017 This product is available in both CD and Vinyl formats.     In 1969 a local Philly group, The Intrigues, hit pay dirt with their self penned song “In A Moment”, initially released on their own Bullet label. This Thom Bell and Bobby Martin song was later picked up by the NYC Yew