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Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul
Stuart Cosgrove
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Description for Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul
Paperback. B-Format edition of the bestselling Young Soul Rebels Num Pages: 320 pages, photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKEN; 3JJPL; AVGQ; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Nothing will ever compare to the amphetamine rush of my young life and the night I was nearly buggered by my girlfriend's uncle in the Potteries...The opening line of Stuart Cosgrove's Young Soul Rebel sets up a compelling and intimate story of northern soul, Britain's most fascinating musical underground scene, and takes the reader on a journey into the iconic clubs that made it famous - The Twisted Wheel, The Torch, Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca and Cleethorpes Pier - the bootleggers that made it infamous, the splits that threatened to divide the scene, the great unknown records that built its ... Read more
Nothing will ever compare to the amphetamine rush of my young life and the night I was nearly buggered by my girlfriend's uncle in the Potteries...The opening line of Stuart Cosgrove's Young Soul Rebel sets up a compelling and intimate story of northern soul, Britain's most fascinating musical underground scene, and takes the reader on a journey into the iconic clubs that made it famous - The Twisted Wheel, The Torch, Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca and Cleethorpes Pier - the bootleggers that made it infamous, the splits that threatened to divide the scene, the great unknown records that built its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birlinn Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846973932
SKU
V9781846973932
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Stuart Cosgrove
Stuart Cosgrove, originally from Perth, was a fanzine writer on the northern soul scene before joining the black music paper Echoes, as a staff writer. He became media editor with the NME and a feature writer for a range of newspapers and magazines. A graduate of Hull University, he completed a PhD in modern American theatre history. In 2005 he ... Read more
Reviews for Young Soul Rebels: A Personal History of Northern Soul
'A thoughtful and impassioned memoire, complete with sociopolitical analysis' - Herald; 'an enjoyable account of the northern soul scene...It's not just first-hand memories here, we also get a detailed history from the scene's root to the present day...fascinating'
- Mojo; 'it simply scintillates'
- Record Collector; 'Sheer poetry...it truly is a personal history, but it weaves its way ... Read more
- Mojo; 'it simply scintillates'
- Record Collector; 'Sheer poetry...it truly is a personal history, but it weaves its way ... Read more