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Top stuff this Tim.

R.I. P. Brian, A True Gentleman , The very bedrock of Mr Ms and the early morning oldies main hall scene . ALWAYS HIT THE SPOT .

Nobody but me Human beinz, Soul sounds , bought in school playground for pennies 1972.

RIP Sly Stone . “Family Affair” just does it for me in a way very few records can . Kind of gets inside you . First heard it in The Servites Youth club cellar when it was released . Another one from that era I used to love was “Running Away “. Kind of Unique sound at the time .

Move on up

Sweets Satisfy me baby / Something about my Baby .

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Just looking through some old CDs , came across 8 or 9 from the Backbeats series , Issued maybe a decade or more ago . These were budget CDs , maybe 5 or 6 quid at the time , and the content quality was consistently high across the series , as was the art work on the cover etc.. ( maybe this period was seen as the last throw of the dice for CDs , hence the great value ? ) Have bought very few CDs in the last Decade , but decided that there were still some releases in this series I was interested in picking up . I noticed that certain titles had risen in price , managed to get what I was looking for , Just putting it out there for anyone who dosent already know that , a ) This was a great series and body of work , and b) , They are becoming scarcer . ( Still plenty out there for peanuts though ) .

Hi , Looking for a copy of the above , either the orange or white label , in at least vg+ condition, preferably better , Thanks.

Just different opinions Pete , Personally , I enjoy the "Club a go go " type selections Sean Chapman does , as long as the music played is the music advertised , its all good , if however its advertised as lets say a reggae and ska night and Northern is played ( or vice versa of course ) then its a false bill of goods .

There are some incredibly soulful Reggae sounds out there , The Rocksteady era and the Studio 1 catalogue is full of them, especially the mid to late 60s to early 70s. Anyone not familiar with Carlton and the Shoes , The Heptones , or pretty much anything with Vin Gordon on Trombone from this period , along with hundreds more , will be richly rewarded by taking a listen.

I am surprised that these British test press copies are not more valuable and sought after , they must be much rarer than the uk demos , if not as easy on the eye .

That is Tooley, (R.I.P.) Used to be quite active on here as "Godzilla" A record bar stalwart , and a really sound guy as well.

Yes , Read the book the first article alluded to some time back , confirmed many thoughts I had been having for decades .