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SoulPublications
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Book List :
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60's Manchester Soul Top 500 |
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Inspired by
Kev Roberts 'The Northern Soul Top 500'
is a companion volume and charts the genesis of
the UK's love affair with American Soul
music. This book loosely resembles the
book from Kev Roberts, however the 500
soul tracks listed with label pictures
and notes, covers the original soul
sounds period in the 1960's. Every one of the Top 500
became almost apocryphal tracks
that launched the Northern Soul
phenomenon that we know of today. These
are the Soul sounds that struck a cord
with the original 'northern soul scene'
at Manchester's Twisted Wheel; the
genesis of and the important epicenter of a music genre that became both
mainstream and underground. |
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Latin American Travellers Tales |
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A note book
of events and stories from travels in
various South American Latin countries.
A disappearing underbelly of cultures
going Westernised. Like Gurana Antarctica and Inka Cola the
fizzy soft drinks of Brazil and Peru
that are
bought out by Coca Cola; a sign of a disappearing
culture absorbed by a bigger one and like many
parallel unique cultural and diverse
aspects of
Latin America they are on the brink of change,
both politically and culturally. |
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Soul Time |
A book that
has little to do with soul music as a
musical genre and everything to do with
a quest to find the music of the soul;
which is silence. A journey of self
discovery, pitfalls, wrong turnings,
false trails, that eventually leads to
the sound of silence the music of the
soul.
The book details the journey and the
discovery of something we can all find,
with some effort, a thing that is so
close to ourselves that we often can't
reach it due to the cacophonic noise of
the modern world. |
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The Manchester Wheelers |
'You
ain’t been nowhere till you’ve been in
with the In Crowd’ - Dobie Gray
The story of what it was like to be 'in'
at the Twisted Wheel and to be a
Manchester Soul Mod. This novel gives insights into the
'Wheel' from the Brazenose Street period
onwards and describes the Mods, the
drugs, the ups and the come downs, the
music and what it was like at Junior
Walkers Allnighter in 1967. In the
format of a novel it puts in what all the other books about
this scene have left out. Written by one of the numerous 'Dave's'
who did go frequently to the club.
Full of stories and anecdotes; If you
were there, relax... the names have been
changed so the grandchildren will not be
embarrassed.
It charts the start of what later became
the ‘Northern Soul Scene’ you will gain
an insight into the events, happenings
and behavior of a youth culture focused
on fashion, drugs and soul.
It’s a story and also an anthropology of
modern social groupings and how to
survive them. It's also a journey inside
the head of a DJ with multiple mental
questions about the nature of his
runaway mind. And of course more than
anything its about the MUSIC! |
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Working at Avro |
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From
apprentice
to airframe engineer; working in a large
engineering factory in North Manchester
in the 1960's. Anecdotes, vignettes, and
personal stories and insights about
working practices, work avoidance, and
the often funny struggle between us and
them; can be compared to 'I'm Alright
Jack'. A historical, informative and at
times funny record of bygone work. |
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The
Maskirovka of Max and Moritz |
This book is
simply amazing, if you want to know some
hidden Jewish war history get this.
Packed with things you wont get from
current Westernised history of the main
victors of WW2. Like how communists at the top of
England's secret service were helping
the Russians to confuse the Germans
secret service! English Communist
sympathisers feeding Bletchley
park secrets directly to the Russians at the same time operators
gave details to Bletchley Park
superiors!
Hitler believed that to defeat the Red
Army at Stalin Grad was critical and
would result in finishing that war
front. But the Russians 'knew' that Hitler believed
the name of the city held extra
significance; named so after the dictator
and that as result, Hitler believed that
ALL Red Army forces were defending it,
when in fact, contrary to popular belief
Stalin was not so self conditioned and
had the main Red Army forces and weapons
held back in a strategic back door
attack.
A great well researched book that
deserves a Steven Spielberg film! |
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