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A few cinemas are repeating it, well two in Birmingham are next week. So check your local independent cinemas there may still be an opportunity to see it on the big screen. Well worth watching, it was obviously an authorised film so was never going to show anyone in a bad light but on the other hand an unauthorised one is never going to get such close access to people like Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson. Personally I would have liked to have seen more of the performances especially the Miracles and Stevie Wonder ones which are either not on Youtube or are in terribly quality. Maybe they'll be on the DVD?

Limited edition art prints they just handwrite 1/500 etc. on the corner, that would do.

Surely that's 396 then?

398

Great advice, but since the OP last visited this site 3 and a half years ago I guess he's moved onto other things! Perhaps NS wasn't for him?

Here's another one that always reminds me of something else - The Chandlers; Your Love Makes Me Lonely and David Bowie; Golden Years, Bowie's was originally recorded when he was in his 'white soul' phase so he could well have been listening to them? Perhaps the guitar on some of the earlier live versions sounds more like it but surely the riff is similar?

Cheers, me neither - the best of the Mod revival bands IMO; although they did a slightly dodgy version of Going To A Go Go.

I guess it's just me then! lol.

Not a big fan of this style but it's no worse than loads of other stuff! I've heard it a few times, quite nice vocals too - much more soulful than many.

Don't know if it's just me but I've always thought these sounded amazingly similar. Remembered Secret Affair - Time for Action when it first came out and the first time I heard Baby Washington I immediately thought of it. Probably just the trumpet riff? They could have nicked it though.

Interesting insight, I think he's right. Maybe it's because rock/metal is based on live acts; OK so there are records but the main communal experience is going to see bands and dancing/moshing/stagediving etc. Whereas the experience of soul is based much more on records; OK so there are live acts but few and far between and even then there will be DJ's and records and most people's experience will be dancing to recorded music. So rock would die out without a constant supply of new acts, whereas soul lives on through old records even if they're newly discovered (albeit there are a few new ones).

Nice one indeed! It's certainly not clear cut, it's not all that generational either - the founder members of Slayer are 55 now and Tool are in their late 50's, so not youngsters.

"will return to Manchester where in the 1960’s he first started DJ’ing at the famed ‘Golden Torch’ all-nighters" Manchester??!

And as for the banknote, he'd have to feature on it if they ever bring out one of these. . . .

Now there's an idea! The 21st June is his Birthday perhaps we should all take the day off to celebrate?

The only posthumous awards that can be granted are for bravery like the George Cross or Victoria Cross, so there's no chance of that happening. You can, however, apply for a Blue Plaque on a building associated with them, in that case they have to be dead first.

What a DJ line up! The cream of the West Midlands. This should be amazing.

It's a completely different song!! Just happens to have the same title?!!?

Get me that straightjacket!

I vaguely remember hearing that but the only thing worse than my memory is my hearing so it was probably something else? I'd be interested to know though.

Those trousers (and headbands) are probably just about back in fashion now.

Thanks for posting this, it was really excellent. The Flock - awesome.

At the danger of going way off topic, the same is true of many "northern" things (leaving aside whether you agree whether this is actually NS or not, I've heard it played) not much in terms of production to this one:

I see a parallel here with architecture - "Modern" architecture was a style (of variety of styles) that became prevalent from the 20's to the 60's. Since then some architects still designed in the style but most moved on and built on the foundations and changed it into something else. In architecture "Postmodern" then became the term and now there's even more labels. So both "Modern" and "Postmodern" architecture are historical styles "Contemporary" is sometimes now used but probably even more meaningless, well I think it's similar. "Postmodern soul" anyone?

Just finished it, I found it very interesting. Mainly a collection of academic essays really, certainly not a memoir like a lot of books. Some good bits - interview with Elaine Constantine is interesting as are the essays by Paul Sadot and Ady Croasdell and the article about Dave Godin. Most of it is written in academic language though so not an easy read.