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Mister Good Times - Norman Jay - Kindle A Sunday read type highlight of the Kindle preview of Mister Good Times - Norman Jay Paperback version has been recently published, also available in an earlier hardback version and also via Kindle at £3.9. Details and Kindle preview below. Amazon Blurb THE ENTHRALLING LIFE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Norman Jay's contribution to club culture is immeasurable . . . He brought new life to undiscovered classics and in doing so turned on a whole new generation' David Rodigan 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman J -
News/Article/Feature Highlight: A Sunday read type highlight of the Kindle preview of Mister Good Times - Norman Jay Paperback version has been recently published, also available in an earlier hardback version and also via Kindle at £3.9. Details and Kindle preview below. View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: A Sunday morning read sort of post/share, a highlight of a recent book titled 'Keeping the faith: A history of northern soul' by Keith Gildart and Stephen Catterall. Read kindle preview via link below View full article -
A Sunday morning read sort of post, a highlight of a recent book titled 'Keeping the faith: A history of northern soul' by Keith Gildart and Stephen Catterall. Published in August 2020 this book is now available at approx. £60 for the hardback edition and £50 approx for the Kindle edition at Amazon Is this now the third university press related book in current times? Have to say am losing count/track of such going ons and the price does make me wonder about the aim/market of these 'University Press' books. But anyway the purpose here is to inform and share and as with various past so -
Cassius X: A Legend in the Making Kindle Edition A quick word just to let you all know that both versions of Stuart Cosgrove's latest book are now available (that's the hardback and kindle versions) which also means that we can now offer the opportunity to jump in and have yourself a preview read via the kindle version below. Release notes follow below and given the two main subjects I do have to say that I am most looking forward to reading this... Blurb Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassi -
News/Article/Feature Highlight: Both versions of Stuart Cosgrove's latest book, are available now at last (hardback and kindle) follow the link below for full details and to read the kindle preview View full article -
Kindle- The Story of the Incredible Jades - To Make the Moment Last
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To Make the Moment Last: The Story of the Incredible Jades Kindle Edition by William E. Thrasher Jr In this memoir, a member of the Incredible Jades recalls the rise and experiences of the band over the course of one year in the late sixties-the group's amazing moment in the sun. Available via a kindle edition at £3.49 and hardback at £7.95 from amazon (link below) Not of great length and though while not fully reviewed due to lack of time, the preview below should give a good idea of what the actual content is like. Blurb The sixties gave rise to a whole new generatio -
Here's another Kindle highlight This one is titled Southern Soul-Blues (Music in American Life) and was released last year but as the kindle edition is now available for £1.12 uk wise and is billed as 344 pages, thought maybe a highlight be of some interest Here's the blurb... Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition (12 Mar 2013) Review "Southern Soul-Blues takes on a woefully unexamined topic to make a significant contribution to studies in African American popular music. David Whiteis is a conscientious researcher, an astute observer, and a super -
An occasional series where the site makes the most out of the amazon "look inside" to provide some heads up reading on both old and new books available on kindle This time its a freebasing based look at a recent one The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club Release Date: 14 Oct 2013 Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester' -
A Kindle preview of a recent music biography ... Traveling Soul: The Life of Curtis Mayfield by Todd Mayfield. This recently released book written by one of Curtis Mayfields sons Todd Mayfield, has been picking up good reviews. Can get a taste of it all via the Kindle preview that follows below Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 3410 KB Print Length: 368 pages Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1 edition (1 Oct. 2016) Blurb Curtis Mayfield was one of the seminal vocalists and most talented guitarists of his era, and his music played a vital role in the Civil -
Donny Hathaway Live - Details of a new book by Emily J. Lordi from Bloomsbury Academic, both kindle and paperback format are now available. The company blurb below, a preview follows In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories from a window of Manhattan's Essex House Hotel in an alleged suicide. He was 33 years old and everyone he worked with called him a genius. Best known for “A Song for You,” “This Christmas,” and classic duets with Roberta Flack, Hathaway was a composer, pianist, and singer committed to exploring “music in its totality.” His vel -
News/Article/Feature Highlight: Latest addition to the new review section... 'Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride View full article -
News/Article/Feature Highlight: To Make the Moment Last: The Story of the Incredible Jades Kindle Edition by William E. Thrasher Jr. (Author) In this memoir, a member of the Incredible Jades recalls the rise and experiences of the band over the course of one year in the late sixties... View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records... View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: Just had word of this new mainstream motown book... View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: Continuing the current series of previews of soul related books both new and well known, here's details of a fresh kindle edition View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: A kindle highlight post of Marcus Baram's recent biography of Gil Scott Heron. View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: Another Kindle Look Inside pass on in the occasional series The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. View full article
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I've just written a Northern Soul Quiz Book for Kindle - basically 100 Northern Soul related multiple choice questions for 99p. I've tried to cover a few different themes within the genre, hopefully it will entertain both casual fan and ardent soulie alike. I think it possibly works best with two people or more playing. Amazon Blurb: Book Description Publication Date: 25 May 2015 Northern Soul is more than a music genre, from dancing at all-nighters in hot, sweaty clubs on wooden floors sprinkled with talcum powder to the eternal hunt for a rare, prized 45. The holdalls fes -
The Invisible Man: The Story of Rod Temperton - Kindle preview
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The Invisible Man: The Story of Rod Temperton, the 'Thriller' Songwriter Hardcover – 1 Jun 2017 by Jed Pitman (Author) Out this month via both kindle and hardcover editions, can view the Kindle preview below Blurb The Invisible Man tells the remarkable story of how Rod Temperton worked his way up from a Grimsby fish factory to become one of the most successful songwriters of all time. Born in Cleethorpes in 1949, Temperton embarked on a career in music with the funk band Heatwave, for whom he wrote the international hits ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Always and Forever’, before his songwr -
News/Article/Feature Highlight: Dreams to Remember - Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul by Mark Ribowsky View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: A kindle preview themed revisit to a book that news of was originally posted up back in 2012 Sit Down! Listen To This! The Story of Roger Eagle by Bill Sykes View full article
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News/Article/Feature Highlight: Bobby Womack My Story [1944-2014] published 07 Aug 2014. Available as Kindle and Paperback Editions View full article
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Preview of the Kindle version of Searching For Soul: a life surrounded by Soul Music and lovely people by Reg Stickings One of the benefits of recent soul related kindle version releases is that it allows people to revisit books in a more informative way than when they were originally first published. Here's one book that you may be aware off as it was first published in 2008 and is now on its 4th edition. If you missed the release at the time the kindle preview below now offers you a more detailed look... Blurb 'This is a piece of social history. Highly personal, often touching -
Searching for the Real James Brown - Book Review
Souledtrafford posted an article in Soul Music Articles
‘Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown’ by James McBride. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN-13: 978-1474603638. When it comes to the listening side of soul music, there are still one or two avenues down which I have yet to wander, however, I enjoy nothing better than reading about the wide spectrum of sounds and more so the artists who created that music, whether it be in those dedicatedly produced fanzines of yesteryear, or the numerous books that find their way onto the marketplace. Although there have been numerous books written about “The Godfather of S
