Northern Soul - Keep the Faith
Northern Soul marked the birth of late-night dance culture in Britain. Paul Mason discovers the origin of this underground music scene and why it inspires so much devotion.
Northern Soul marked the birth of late-night dance culture in Britain. Paul Mason, economics journalist and once a regular at the famous 'all-nighters' at Wigan Casino, discovers the origin of this underground music scene and why it continues to inspire such devotion.
Many of the songs that eventually became Northern Soul classics were once rejected or unreleased. Recorded in the 1960s by African-American artists attempting to replicate the successful Motown sound, these discarded tracks would later be rediscovered and revered by white working-class dancers and music fans in the north of England.
Paul Mason tells the extraordinary story of Northern Soul and the dance culture that sprang up around it, influencing musicians, choreographers and filmmakers and growing into a global phenomenon.
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Paul Mason recalls the music that defined his youth at the Wigan Casino 'all-nighters'
Clips
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Northern Soul at the Wigan Casino
Duration: 01:16
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Northern Soul Devotees
Duration: 03:21
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Wigan Young Souls
Duration: 01:53
Music Played
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Sandi Sheldon
You're Gonna Make Me Love You
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Earl Jackson
Soul Self Satisfaction
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The Exciters
Blowing Up My Mind
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The Precisions
If This Is Love
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Stevie Wonder
Uptight
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Major Lance
It's The Beat
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The Supremes
Baby Love
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The Vel-Vets
I Got To Find Me Somebody
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The Parliaments
I Wanna Testify
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Cobblestone
Trick Me, Treat Me
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The Vibrations
Cause You're Mine
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7th Avenue Aviators
You Should Have Held On
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Turley Richards
I Feel Alright
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Dobie Gray
Out On The Floor
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Inner City
Good Life
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The Carstairs
It Really Hurts Me Girl
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Gil Scott鈥怘eron
The Bottle
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Jimmy Radcliffe
Long After Tonight Is All Over
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Holly St. James
That's Not Love
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Gene Chandler
There Was A Time
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Gloria Jones
Tainted Love
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The Jades
I'm Where It's At
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J贸nsi & Alex
All Animals
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Tobi Legend
Time Will Pass You By
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | Maurice O'Brien |
Series Editor | Janet Lee |
Presenter | Paul Mason |
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