100 Hits - The Best Northern Soul Album

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Norcliffe, Josh (28 February 2014). "The Current Northern Soul scene: Is it just nostalgia?". Louder Than War . Retrieved 17 October 2016.

Fashion and imagery [ edit ] Logo featuring the clenched fist symbol which has been adopted by the northern soul movement a b Stephen Catterall; Keith Gildart (January 2019). "Did Wigan Have a Northern Soul?: Volume 2". ResearchGate. The Fall's 1981 song "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" is about the northern soul scene. [90] Writer and singer Mark E. Smith said in an interview published in the NME on 1 October 1983: "That song actually did create quite a bit of resentment in the North because people thought it was being snobby and horrible about the old soul boys, which it was never about anyway. Because I was brought up with people that were into northern soul five years before anybody down here [London] had even heard about it. But they've all grown out of it, which is what the song is about, but it wasn't putting them down at all. If anything, it was glorifying them, but not in the format of, where are those soul boys that used to be here?" [91]David Godin's Deep Soul Treasures' series, is great, but is not stuff that fits into that "northern" characteristic. Most of it is slow, bluesy gospel-flavoured stuff. - more "When A Man Loves A Woman" than "Heat Wave"...Dave Godin did coin the term "Northern Soul"...he run a shop in London selling imported soul stuff, and noticed a certain sound that northern english buyers tended to favour. Neil Rushton (2009). Northern Soul Stories: Angst and Acetates. Soulvation. ISBN 978-0-9564569-1-5. In 2014, the clenched fist logo was subject to a trademark dispute in the UK after a bag retailer in Manchester tried to register the logo. The IPO refused the trademark, considering it generic. The ruling was unusual as it considered not just the usage from other manufacturers, but also its wide usage by members of the public to be relevant. [74] Drugs [ edit ]

Mike Ritson and Stuart Russell (1999). The In Crowd: The Story of the Northern & Rare Soul Scene, Volume 1. Bee Cool. ISBN 0-9536626-1-6. Simon Jones – bass; percussion on "A New Decade"; keyboards on "A Northern Soul"; 12-string acoustic guitar on "History"Playing live became our forte,” Jones says, recalling how A Northern Soul was largely written in six weeks on the road, the group firing on all cylinders, treating audiences to new songs the day they were written. “We’d read about The Stooges going in and recording an album in six days and that was what we wanted to do.”

The Northern soul subculture has spawned several memoirs, novels and short stories. Maxwell Murray's Moloko "Familiar Feeling" - YouTube". YouTube. 8 April 2006. Archived from the original on 28 October 2007 . Retrieved 29 May 2014. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Verve". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th conciseed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.The Northern Soul Scene; Sarah Raine; Tim Wall; Nicola Watchman Smith The Northern Soul Scene, Wall, Watchman Smith, Raine. Although Wigan Casino is now the most well-known, the best-attended northern soul all-night venue at the beginning of the decade was actually the Golden Torch, where regular Friday night soul "all-nighters" began during the latter months of 1970. Chris Burton, the owner, stated that by 1972, the club had a membership of 12,500 and had hosted 62,000 separate customer visits. [22] This double album includes Drift Away and Gray's follow up album Loving Arms, named after his popular cover of the soul standard.