Northern Soul, a music scene pioneered in the youth clubs and dance halls of northern England in the late 1960s, was always a marginal, underground movement, developed far from the bright lights of London. Obsessively focused on rare soul records produced in America in mid-1960s – often with a darker sound and faster tempo than the Motown standards of the day – it attracted young people with a taste for the esoteric a...
↧
