ELO # 42 - What is the Northern Soul?
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
We know what Southern Soul: Soul is the rough southern United States, whose emblem is Stax, as opposed to the more polished Motown Soul in north. Yet the movement
Northern Soul comes from the north ... England (Manchester, for example), at a party music of the 60s. The fashion was to move pieces of lesser-known soul possible, particularly B-side of the 45 laps known (eg piece Love Love Love Bobby Hebb , which is the B side of the tube Sunny ). As is also the era of Motown fame, these songs sound like soul indeed policed the northern United States, except that the tubes are prohibited, and the songs too "modern".
Many American artists (Gloria Jones, Frank Wilson, The Fascinations, Bobby Hebb, Al Wilson, Edwin Starr, Tony Clark ...) having missed their career in the U.S. in the 60s became stars in England in the 70 !
Among those who attended these parties, some have started their own groups and set out their way to the songs they heard. This is the case of Leeds group, Soft Cell, who became famous with the song Tainted Love in 1981, the original is a B-side of Gloria Jones in 1964 ...
------------------------------------ You have maybe read "young Tribune Gaza "published in Liberation, QED and elsewhere. She really liked a certain left clueless among all Palestinian factions, because it said "shit Hamas, Israel shit, shit to Fatah etc. ...". Unfortunately, she also lost any political analysis, depth or effectiveness. Besides, she called for "peace" which for me is an empty word if not, at least, accompanied by the word "justice." I ignored. But I came across an answer not great, but at least has the merit of pointing the weaknesses of this text. If you're interested ...
Facebook in Gaza
Karma Nabulsi, a researcher at Nuffield College, Oxford
January 10, 2011 - LRB Blog - translation: JPP
http://www.info-palestine.net/article.php3?id_article=10235
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After Ben Ali emerges emerges Mubarak, Gaddafi emerges Sarkozy emerges here is a argued by our own revolutionary ...
A policy proposal indicted Tarnac
Aria, Benjamin, Bertrand, Chris, Elsa, Gabrielle Julien Manon, Matthew and Yildune are the ten people indicted in the case known as "Tarnac"
Le Monde, February 24, 2011
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2011/02 / 24/paris-texas-une-proposition-politique-des-mis-en-examen-de-tarnac_1484538_3232.html
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Val has sold its shares Charlie Hebdo !
http://www.liberation.fr/medias/01012323107-philippe-val-a-vendu-ses-parts-de-charlie
However, Val was landlord of Charlie Hebdo, which paid him a comfortable rent. If it still is, to check, so it does not completely cut bridges with the newspaper ...
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A rarity, the song Over the Rainbow The Wizard of Oz, by the Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards on piano!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zeezILf9JI