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Dave told us that he continued to run the school blues club after he left - hence meeting Jagger. Dx

Ray Pollard was an extra in Ghostbusters. Barbara McNair pops up in various things - including Playboy. Dx

Charlene Spiteri's all-time favourite record is love starved heart. Liz from Corrie went to Wigan and (according to Kev R) was the driver behind the whole Northern story line in Corrie. Steve Davis bankrolled Voices From The Shadows for a few years and went to the Canal Tavern not infrequently I believe, Jimmy White also collects soul. This is a bit of a pointless thread - there are DOZENS of celebs into soul/northern - so what????... However Anna Ford was NOT one of them - she only went to Wigan to do a news report. Dx

Les Cokell told us he discovered the Four Tracks (it's certainly archetypal Les) - however he also said that it was when he was doing the Mecca - not when he was playing the Wheel. Dx

Think it was the first press actually. Dx

I had a demo with we go together on it. Dx

What was the do Clarkie ran in a pub up an alley in Holbourn? Went to it a few times from Abingdon with Mark Sargeant or Paul Dunne. Went to the Norfolk Arms too once or twice - Terry Davies' do? Richard DJed there one time before we all decamped to the 100 Club. Also a club I think Ady ran somewhere between the Tate and Parliament - Sunday nights? Always got there seriously on the way down from Riker's finest. Plus the Water Rats and some club in the city that Pete Hollander DJed at that was a 100Club warmup - flogged Bob Connor my copy of Doctor of Love there, me a Pete H were still doing Northern Noise such as it was then - was with my Pete at the time so that would've been 91 (we actually met at Drummonds after Brian Rae sent him over to get sorted out). Must've been a few more - but I was usually bouncing off the walls waiting to go on to a nighter. Dx

Er I thought it wasn't Chris Clark - certainly sounds nothing like her. Dx

Er we've been talking about Malcolm X, The Black Panthers and The Nation of Islam. Dx

I think we're losing sight of the fact that Screwdriver are hate mongering fascist scum and should not be conflated with movements promoting civil rights and respect for self and others (sometimes rightly in anger) in a country we all know too well has never respected black culture and people. Dx

In addition to the above, I love Johnny Gilliam (but it used to make me too miserable to listen to when I owned it - sold it and promptly bought another) - for me 'The Man In the Street' by William Bell really does it too (arguably my all-time favourite record - I have two 'just in case'), as does The Valentine's 'Breakaway' which to me totally sums up what Northern Soul was/is to me (in fact I got to know one of my close friends sat in the café after Coventry allnighter - coz he was impressed that I was sat writing out the whole song in my wants list from memory - for something to do whilst still fly Air Riker). Dx

Were there not three decks (and a crap set of flashing lights)? Dx

Walter Jackson 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone' Dx

Yes but that video is Moloko.

Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? - from the Mecca I believe (Les Cokell loved this). The MBs Another Day - rare as hell, but it really DOES sound like the sodding Merseybeats! Dx

Is it something to do with where you stand to dance or is upfront the same as missionary? If so what's the doggy style scene like? Dx

Really? We all seemed to have a copy of this in the late mid 80s - it was part of the 'rhythm n soul' stuff we were into along with Big Daddy Rodgers, Henry Strogen (Misery), Billy Lamont (So Called Friend), Ronnie Forte and the like - didn't get played much and was easy to find (like BDR and RF) - but all my lot knew it down south. Dx

Anyone mentioned Rufus Lumley's wonderful Stronger Than Me?

The Poets I've Got Two Hearts played? I don't know one way or another, but I'm surprised (the boss, who went, didn't know it when I got it). A wondrous record either way. Dx

Northern Soul was and is a very broad church that can only really be defined as 'records that were/are played at venues that label themselves northern soul clubs'... Within that wide range are an extensive selection of once big, but utter sh*te pieces of vinyl of all colours and creeds, but at some point enough people must've thought that every one of them was good enough/danceable enough to become popular - 'sh*te yesterday, sh*te today, sh*te tomorrow'. The question is whether people are honest enough to admit a] their tastes change, b] we were all divs when we were young pups and c] it's easy to get swept up in the moment out on the floor, especially when you've necked half of Riker's monthly output. As for Do I Love You - I can tell you for a fact that Frank was embarrased by it and thought his voice was appalling and the production crap, coz he told us personally when we were ferrying him up to Blackpool. Dx

Frank Wilson was from LA

St Germain do some great stuff. Dx

Don't think this chap has been mentioned (you could do a whole CD of the different vocals he's done to this tune)...

Unless I've missed it, nobody's mentioned this... Or on the moddy/club side... ...Or : ) ...Or ...Or

Yes I remember the muscles on Jon Buck : ) Dx