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People Get Ready, The Impressions 1965/Pushing ...
I was brought up CofE. My dad was the Church organist, by Grandad the Church Warden, and we went to Church every Sunday. We were a bit high church, and...
People Get Ready, The Impressions 1965/Pushing ...
I was brought up CofE. My dad was the Church organist, by Grandad the Church Warden, and we went to Church every Sunday. We were a bit high church, and...
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels 1980
Kevin Rowland, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, and the Courage to Be Yourself I’m in Ireland, reading Kevin Rowland’s autobiography. Predictably, it’s brilliant — one of the best music...
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels 1980
Kevin Rowland, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, and the Courage to Be Yourself I’m in Ireland, reading Kevin Rowland’s autobiography. Predictably, it’s brilliant — one of the best music...
The Jazz Singer Who Took on Oswald Mosley — Cle...
Cleo Laine’s role in the Stars Campaign for Interracial Friendship (SCIF) — Britain’s first anti-racist music movement — is a forgotten chapter in jazz and pop history.
The Jazz Singer Who Took on Oswald Mosley — Cle...
Cleo Laine’s role in the Stars Campaign for Interracial Friendship (SCIF) — Britain’s first anti-racist music movement — is a forgotten chapter in jazz and pop history.
The Ruts, Babylon's Burning 1979
Warning: This Blog Contains Hazy and Unreliable Memories of My Teenage Years, and some Jimmy Savile We might be in for another hot summer. Last year, riots erupted across the...
The Ruts, Babylon's Burning 1979
Warning: This Blog Contains Hazy and Unreliable Memories of My Teenage Years, and some Jimmy Savile We might be in for another hot summer. Last year, riots erupted across the...
Sly And The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Going...
Sly Stone died this week. Sly and the Family Stone were America’s happiest pop group. A mixed-race, gender-integrated funk-soul band, their early albums were euphoric—the most primal expression of what...
Sly And The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Going...
Sly Stone died this week. Sly and the Family Stone were America’s happiest pop group. A mixed-race, gender-integrated funk-soul band, their early albums were euphoric—the most primal expression of what...