Was re-reading a book about Black music from the 80s and a lot of the entries were written by Roger St Pierre. I also seem to recall him writing for Northern fanzines in the early 80s. A quick Google and:

 

https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/roger-st-pierre

 

Was he just a writer or was he also a DJ/collector/anythingelse? Just curious as he seems to be a figure of some interest on the soul scene in general, but what was his involvement with Northern?

Just saw this also...those were the days!

 

https://martins_box.tripod.com/id33.htm

He used to write the vintage soul/blues page in Blues & Soul in the 80s.

He ran  the Now (the O’Jays, Masqueraders) and Energy labels (the Valentine Brothers), so can't be all that bad.

probably a nice guy. but why did he have to write his name across the record label in black felt tip!

Always looked forward to his Soul column in New Musical Express (NME).  Always struck me as an intelligent writer on the subject.

 

He sold a lot of 45s a year or two back on ebay and I managed to get demos of Johnny Daye on UK Stax and the Originals on UK TM.  He did write his name on all of them covers as well, just adds a bit of provenance for me

i saw that demo of Johnny Daye, it looked fantastic!

I got a UK Bell demo of Chris Bartley, I found a goodie, from the same sale.

 

BH