Liamgp

You mean 'You're the Guy'. Sorry to be pedantic - I can't help it I'm an editor...

I was certainly a 1981 mod and was quickly brainwashed (thank god!) by rare and not-so-rare northern soul and R+B - Northern, 6Ts, 40s/50s/60s blues, Motown/Atlantic/Stax, the lot. It's been a long road from local mod nights via all-nighters in Thornton to the glories of Stafford (Lorraine Chandler live - oooh, yes please!), the 100 club, organising our own soul and r'n'b nights in Edinburgh, and so on until today when I still find myself unable to resist the lure of a £100 45 even though it's easier to get it on a £5.99 CD at HMV. I'm not a mod any more (too old and not enough hair for a backcomb!) but I bless the day I first heard Bobby Bland, Irma Thomas, Chuck Jackson, Mary Love (For Dancers Only LP - revelation time!!), Garnet Mimms, Impressions, Darrow Fletcher, Jackie Wilson, Arthur Alexander, Lorraine Chandler Keb and Guy, Ady, and on and on...