Daved

Oh dear. RIP Leon. What an artist! One of the creative greats. He's still been at it in recent years.

I personally bu records because I love the music. If I can't afford the original I'm quite happy to have on a CD or a legit reissue (not a boot). The point is I buy it because I love the music, not as an investment. I've got loads of great LPs from the 80s that I paid £5 for and they're worth about the same now. They still sound great.

Here's two pictures of the great man at Hyde Park in 2013

RIP Al. Such a great artist. The Breakin' Away and Jarreau Lps are classics imo. He played Wembley Arena at the peak of his popularity. I saw him at one of the small stages at Hyde Park three years ago on a beautiful sunny day. When he sang "We're In This Love Together", all seemed right with the world

Mine looks like this.

He covered a great version of Bourgie Bourgie too.

Great film and superb soundtrack. One of my favourites with Perri, Gerald Alston, Take 6 and Al Jarreau

The Truth did a cover version in 1983 so it must've been played out at mod revival dos at the time.

Excellent. Shall we do this everyday?

Ok, thanks. That would be nice

I'd like one too and am happy to pay towards the charity.

The Velvelettes - He Was Really Sayin' Something

Agreed. It's crap mate. But to say "brilliant house released on a weekly basis" is stretching it. That hasn't happened for years now. The quality output is very far and few between imo at the moment.

This is a good CD which includes Jeff Perry https://www.discogs.com/Various-Modern-Soul-Livin-For-The-Weekend/release/5090561

The best way to avoid it is back cueing at all. There's absolutely no need for it when dj'ing with 45s, if you follow the advice in post 2. It's a piece of cake. Even I can play a set without back-cueing and there would be no silences, missing vital parts of the song or that weird wind up noise. In fact, I reckon I could do it with any 15 records that were handed to me.

This is the right answer. If you can't DJ using this method with 45s, then you shouldn't be up there.

Detroit '67 was superb. I learnt a lot of new things musically and also found the description of how the whole political and social climate was at that time in Detroit really interesting.

Nice one. Anything on Innovation II is good. Steve Plumb wrote a good article on the label a few years back.

Merry Xmas all. Thanks to Mike and everyone else running the site.

I think Denice Williams is great. I love Free, ‘Cause I Love You Baby, That’s What Friends Are For and I Can’t Wait.

Very sad to hear this. He was always extremely nice to me whenever we met and will be sorely missed. RIP Paul.

Mel & Tim - Forever and a Day

RIP Sharon. So much great music and the gigs were awesome

They're playing Manchester and Birmingham too

I think a lot of London gigs aren't very well advertised either. I only found out last week that Trina Broussard and Kindred The Family Soul are playing at the Jazz Café on 20 Nov. There’s no mention of it on their FB page and it only got mentioned on their emails last week