Roger St Pierre

[Liamgp]

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?

[Liamgp]

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

 

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

[Daved]

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

[Roburt]

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

[Tobytyke]

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

[Mike Lofthouse]

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

[binsy]

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

[Blake H]

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

 

BH